The Supermassive Podcast
A podcast by The Royal Astronomical Society

85 Episodes
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EMERGENCY BONUS - Asteroid 2024 YR4
Published: 2/19/2025 -
BONUS - Could we capture a primordial black hole?
Published: 2/12/2025 -
The Search for Space Aliens
Published: 1/29/2025 -
Q&A - Space Potatoes and Christmas Stars
Published: 12/21/2024 -
BONUS - Why can't anything go faster than the speed of light?
Published: 12/13/2024 -
The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts
Published: 12/5/2024 -
BONUS - Nuclear Pasta & G-Astronomy
Published: 11/19/2024 -
Strange Stars and Bizarre Binaries
Published: 11/6/2024 -
BONUS - A Bumper Edition
Published: 10/19/2024 -
Untangling the Cosmic Web
Published: 10/2/2024 -
BONUS - What distorts time?
Published: 9/26/2024 -
We Made It To Mercury!
Published: 9/4/2024 -
BONUS - Galaxy Spin and Saving Herstmonceux Observatory
Published: 8/21/2024 -
Venus aka "Earth's Evil Twin"
Published: 8/1/2024 -
BONUS - Overmassive Galaxies
Published: 7/20/2024 -
Q&A - Black Hole Special
Published: 7/3/2024 -
BONUS - Lumpy Space Potatoes
Published: 6/21/2024 -
The Major Lunar Standstill
Published: 6/4/2024 -
BONUS - Why does the Aurora Borealis look better on my phone?
Published: 5/23/2024 -
Voyager: Where no-one has gone before...
Published: 4/29/2024
This is The Supermassive Podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society. Every month, science journalist Izzie Clarke and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst take you through the universe with the latest research, history from the society’s archives and astronomy you can do from your own home. Support the team by buying their book, The Year in Space.You can send your questions to the team via [email protected] or follow them on Instagram @SupermassivePod. The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production by Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.