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The text is a transcript of a video by Dr. Becky, an astrophysicist, who explains her research on supermassive black hole spins and how they affect the galaxies they are in. She covers the following topics:
- What is spin or angular momentum and how it is conserved when a star collapses into a black hole.
- How fast black holes can spin and how to measure their spin using x-ray observations of the accretion disk around them.
- Why the spin of a black hole matters for the feedback energy that it releases into the galaxy, which can heat up gas and prevent star formation.
- How different ways of growing a black hole, such as mergers or steady accretion, can affect its spin and alignment with the galaxy's spin axis.
- How she and her collaborator used simulations to test their hypothesis that galaxies that have never had a merger host black holes with higher spins and aligned axes, and what implications this has for feedback.
- What are the challenges and future prospects of testing their results with observations using the Hubble Space Telescope or other x-ray telescopes.
1. This summer, two new research papers were released on how supermassive black holes grow and how fast they spin. The speaker wrote these papers alongside collaborators, including Ricardo Beckman from Cambridge. [Source: Document(page_content="00:00:00.00: so this summer two new research papers...")]
2. The speaker is a theorist who runs simulations of the universe on a computer, while Ricardo Beckman is an observer who goes to telescopes and takes data. [Source: Document(page_content="00:00:10.26: alongside my collaborators but...")]
3. The two papers that came out focus on how the spin of a supermassive black hole is tied to how they grow. [Source: Document(page_content="00:00:39.72: of the two papers that came...")]
4. The speaker is particularly intrigued by the idea of black hole spin, and hopes to explain what it means and how fast black holes can spin. [Source: Document(page_content="00:00:50.70: is that it has to be conserved so if...")]
5. The speaker explains that black holes spin just like anything else, but there is also a limit to how fast black holes can spin. This limit is when the Event Horizon itself around the black hole would be traveling at the speed of light. [Source: Document(page_content="00:04:21.48: is that the speed at which...")]
6. Measuring the spin of a black hole with observations is incredibly difficult. One way to do this is by looking for the inner edge of a swirling disc of material that's spiraling and orbiting around the black hole. [Source: Document(page_content="00:06:43.98: hole spins in any sort of form of black...")]
7. The speaker discusses the effects of a growing, spinning supermassive black hole on the galaxy it's in the center of. This includes how the black hole spin determines the efficiency with which material that comes into the accretion disk gets converted into feedback energy. [Source: Document(page_content="00:11:14.16: this tiny Space by these magnetic fields...")]
8. The speaker and Ricardo Beckman used simulations to test how different processes could lead to the spinning up of a black hole and aligning it with the same spin axis as the galaxies, and which processes lead to a spin down of a black hole and perhaps even anti-align it with the galaxy spin axis. [Source: Document(page_content="00:13:43.50: a merger and what I noticed while doing...")]
9. The speaker and Ricardo Beckman found that galaxies that have never had a merger host supermassive black holes that have higher spins and those spins tend to be aligned with the same axis that the galaxy is spinning around. [Source: Document(page_content="00:15:55.14: shown in blue here now there's not as...")]
10. The speaker concludes by stating that more research is needed to confirm these findings in the universe, but also mentions potential ways to test these ideas using current technology. [Source: Document(page_content="00:18:12.60: to mergers some even estimating as low...")]