Film, Video The Science of Interstellar: Life on Planets Around Black Holes

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Title

  • The Science of Interstellar: Life on Planets Around Black Holes

Summary

  • Jeremy Schnittman discussed the "habitability zone" around supermassive black holes and discussed the Hollywood movie "Interstellar" in light of the physics governing accretion, relativity and astrobiology.

Event Date

  • May 03, 2016

Notes

  • -  Jeremy Schnittman is a research astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. His research interests include theoretical and computational modeling of black hole accretion flows, X-ray polarimetry, black hole binaries, gravitational wave sources, gravitational microlensing, planetary dynamics, resonance dynamics and exoplanet atmosphere.

Running Time

  • 1 hours 6 minutes 37 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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