Is a rogue black hole lurking in the Milky Way? | Professor Jessica Lu (#237)

Today's guest, UC Berkeley Professor Jessica Lu, discusses the
discovery of the first dark, isolated black hole or neutron star in
the Milky Way using gravitational microlensing! This ‘ghost black
hole’ is far from the center of the Milky Way. We also discussed:
dark matter and the future of multi-messenger astronomy w/ the
Roman and James Webb Space telescope as well as the Vera Rubin
Observatory. Finally, we answered yourQuestions -- you can always
submit them on the "Community" tab for this channel. This work was
led by UC Berkeley grad, Casey Lam, and details are in papers in
The Astrophysical Journal (https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01903). See
Jessica's awesome Twitter thread on this discovery, and what it
might mean:
https://twitter.com/jlu_astro/status/1535292954180341760?s=20&t=ZFaQb9iG5SIsaQW3ijH7ZQ
Please enjoy my black hole playlist for more on the theory and
observation of these mysterious objects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvGInn1efR8&list=PLJGKdZD30K_9Gx0SBRjFn_TNPBN-9t9md
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