The University of Southampton

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Listen to us talk about everything from Black holes to the Northern Lights. 

Dr Matt Middleton

Black holes: seeing 'the unseeable'. The Guardian Science Weekly podcast

Using a global network of telescopes, scientists have managed to capture an image of a black hole for the first time. Hannah Devlin speaks to Dr Matt Middleton from the University of Southampton about decades of research that led to the achievement.

www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2019/apr/26/black-hole-image-event-hor...

Could dark matter harbour dark life? BBC Crowd Science

Where the conditions are right, life can arise. But what might the ‘right’ conditions be? Could the dark sector of our Universe be inhabited?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz1sx

Can a Shrimp Punch Through Glass? The Naked Scientists

www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked-scientists-podcast/can-shrimp-...

Dr Poshak Gandhi

Supersized black hole discovery forces universal rethink. Guardian Interview

www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/06/supersized-black-hole-discovery-...

BBC Radio 5 Live interview (March 17 2016) 

www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/03/red-flares-black-hole.page

Interview with The Hindustan Times in Delhi

www.livemint.com/Science/SdLgE2kfyEMdcfVljzJJlO/Black-holes-Gravity-is-t...

Interview with New Delhi TV (NDTV)

www.ndtv.com/india-news/blackhole-images-praised-by-indian-scientists-ca...

Dr Diego Altamirano

Shedding light on the invisible. Royal Society

A black hole is so massive and confined in such a small volume in space that not even light can escape its gravitational pull. Discover how Dr Diego Altamirano is using X-ray and optical telescopes, and the world's largest radio antenna, to push the boundaries of physics to try and understand the properties of black holes.

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2015/04/black-holes/

What is a pulsar? (In Spanish)

Listen to Dr Diego Altamirano describe the astonishing and turbulent life of a neutron star.

https://cienciaes.com/entrevistas/2018/10/01/que-es-un-pulsar/

Dr Sadie Jones

BBC Radio Solent breakfast show interview about the #AuroraQuest expedition to Norway with the Aurora Zoo team

https://soundcloud.com/astrosadie/sadie-talking-about-the-auroraquest-ex...

Black hole research and many other astronomy subjects, including the Aurora Zoo project on the ‘Meet the World’ podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/meet-the-world/id1451296975

Chloe Webb podcast from Solent University called ‘Alone’ exploring the concept of life in the Universe

https://open.spotify.com/show/1gtHvVaQvhCMwZCqpRSaUG

‘Bright Club Southampton’ podcast interview talking through astronomy outreach work and the scientific accuracy of black holes in film

https://soundcloud.com/brightclubsouthamptonpodcast/episode-13-sadie-jones

BBC Radio Solent interview about black holes and the Aurora Zoo project

https://soundcloud.com/astrosadie/sadie-jones-talking-supermassive-black...

Astronomy outreach and public engagement YouTube interview

www.youtube.com/channel/UCF2no5h--thb3PY51FoHHWQ - the most watched video on this channel is a timelapse of the astrodome being inflated and doing shows at an open day.

‘AstroSadie’ YouTube channel

www.youtube.com/channel/UC0A9zp7A2pyBlB6Rb7RHIxA

Dr Caitriona Jackman

A recent update from Juno (The Sky at Night, BBC Four). 

Chris Lintott and Dr Caitriona Jackman discuss some amazing images of Jupiter.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07x0fqy

Revealing the secrets of Saturn. University of Southampton

Dr. Caitriona Jackman has spent virtually all of her academic career focused on Saturn and, more specifically, on the vast amount of data sent back to Earth by the Cassini-Huygens mission to the ringed planet. As the Cassini mission reaches its final stages and prepares to plunge into the gaseous cloud surrounding Saturn Dr. Jackman is excited but with a hint of melancholy as the probe ends its 20-year mission.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6GIi-dfTzI

Professor Malcolm Coe

Original FM Radio interviews

Southern African Large Telescope

www.soton.ac.uk/~mjcoe/pr/Space_around_us_SALT.mp3

Magellanic Clouds

www.soton.ac.uk/~mjcoe/pr/magellanic_clouds_all.mp3

Gravity

www.soton.ac.uk/~mjcoe/pr/gravity_all.mp3

Chris Marsden

TEDx talk, Livestream and YouTube Video - ‘We are Small’

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NglHh9GGqM

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