Celebrating 100 Episodes with you at The Star
Spot!
Thank you for joining here at The Star Spot for our special
100th episode. I want to take a moment to thank the 100 absolutely
stellar guests that have joined us on the show over the last 4
years. You have educated and inspired people of all ages with your
insight and enthusiasm. Thank you to our listeners for helping us
grow our production and for your thoughtful suggestions and
terrific online discussion. And of course, a very special thank you
to the amazing team of volunteers who make our project possible. It
has been a great experience working with each of you and I look
forward to what the next 4 years will bring.
 
Feature Guest: Feryal Özel
As we speak astronomers are busy building the world’s biggest
telescope. And when it becomes operational one year from now the
globe-spanning Event Horizon Telescope will be aimed at the
supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, taking the
first ever portrait of this hungry beast lying at the very core of
the Milky Way. To help us understand how studying the shadow of
supermassive black holes will provide the most rigorous test yet in
our understanding of gravity, today we’re joined at The Star Spot
by The Event Horizon Telescope’s Professor Feryal Özel
The Star Spot is Now on the Radio!
The The Star Spot podcast is now The Star Spot podcast and radio
show. That’s right. Your favourite astronomy program is now
travelling through space, specifically the 1280AM frequency. Our
broadcaster, CJRU The Scope at Ryerson, is now available on the
radio dial, which means you can join us at The Star Spot at 1280AM
every Sunday 8PM and Tuesday 6PM Eastern Time.
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hides alien ships from an enemy. Now Tony explains how a real life
cloaking device could help us hide our entire civilization from
prying eyes. And Anuj wonders if Saturn's moons may be younger than
we thought - and what that means for our exploration of the solar
system. 

About Our Guest
Feryal Özel is Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the
University of Arizona. She received her Masters from the Niels Borh
Institute and her PhD from Harvard University, before working as a
NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study
at Princeton. Her research focuses on neutron stars and black
holes, and the relationship of black holes and galaxies in the
early universe. Professor Özel is a Fellow of the American Physical
Society and a member of the Science Academy of Turkey.