The Universe Beyond Visible Light - with Jen Gupta

Astrophysicist Jen Gupta explores views of the Universe at wavelengths other than visible light, from familiar objects like our Sun to weird and wonderful distant quasars.
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Jen Gupta is an astrophysicist who loves to talk about how awesome space is with anyone who will listen. She is currently based in the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth where she is the SEPnet/Ogden Physics Outreach Officer. She also occasionally works at the Winchester Science Centre as a Planetarium Presenter. In her spare time she help to organise the Winchester Science Festival.
Jen did her PhD at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Professor Ian Browne. Her research looked at active galactic nuclei (AGN) - galaxies that are emitting far more energy from their centres than can be accounted for by their stars. In particular she focused on a subset of AGN called blazars.
This talk was filmed in the Royal Institution on 14 April 2016.
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[@chrisnizer1885]

The universe is so amazing with it's immensity and all the weird objects in it like pulsars, super massive black holes, active galactic nuclei. It's a mad scientists dream!

[@RadarLightwave]

Why in the Universe doesn't this video have more views! That's a damn shame. This should be viral.

[@romeomargot-picquendar1281]

because humans ?

[@TheMaxwellee]

Very easy to understand. Thank you very much Jen and TRI.

[@h.r.k-akrc7953]

Hi sir need ur help

[@whirledpeas3477]

Shebefat❤

[@peterford5408]

43:18 Interesting to hear about Betelgeuse's approaching supernova. According to Wikipedia, when it happens _"it may outshine the full moon",_ and _"would be easily visible in daylight". "This type of supernova would remain at roughly constant brightness for 2-3 months before rapidly dimming."_ Fingers crossed it happens in my lifetime! (Although that sounds extremely unlikely.)

[@josephmorgan2856]

u know that would mean mass genocide of all life in that system. its a sad sight really

[@savage22bolt32]

While on vacation in a little cabin, on a beach in Mexico, I had the occasion to get up ar 3 AM to use the toilet. I walked out on the beach and was so overwhelmed by the huge number or stars & galaxies up there, I woke up my two friends and convinced them to join me outside to see the sky. Now, several decades later, they have thanked me many times for waking them that night. It was such an incredible, moving sight.

[@50PercentBS]

Very well done!

[@andrewlavey6992]

Excellent subject and well presented. Looking forward to future presentations.

[@Raphael_NYC]

Thank you Dr. Gupta. raphael

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

Very good presentation!!!!

[@batman1434]

Excellent lecture talk

[@geneoverride3725]

Amazing talk! You made me understand so many things about space. Now I am on a hunt for Andromeda and Orion Nebula with my naked eye :) Thank you so much.

[@rohitchat5538]

I am learning any thing lessons I come through and I am spiritual person beleive in educate something wonderful can add value getting knowledge from your experiences I listen minutely.. 🙏🙏

[@garymiller3403]

Beautiful presentation.

[@melissamiller5069]

Thanks believed that every spectrum has and equal and opposite spectrum of each band or frequency including electricity magnatism and so on whether known or unknown.

[@paulmace7910]

Nice basic cosmology lecture. Good speaker.

[@ZeedijkMike]

Very interesting and inspiring lecture.

[@Feenix102]

So are the radio wave jets from the black hole comparable to some kind of radio spectrum aurora?

[@mycount64]

so if you were to direct a beam of x-rays or microwaves, etc. through a prism would those be separated out in wave lengths?

[@DV-dt9sq]

I love it!! 🙌🙌🙌🌼🌼🌼

[@Andy-Sas]

Oöoow yeah! Now that i understand. Thanks alot

[@SimonSozzi7258]

5:04 Jupiter twinkles A LOT! At least here in California. Especially because it's so bright and because the moons are just barely visible to the naked eye. With binoculars I can see them but very twinkly because of the atmosphere. I don't know why the atmosphere would be so different in England? Maybe when it's clear, it's really clear?🤔

[@h.r.k-akrc7953]

Hi need names of books to study of cosmology

[@xapemanx]

RI, give your editor a headset

[@TheWraithkrown]

This is a very interesting lecture. I liked the fact that the glasses were passed out to the attendees AND one of the cameras. A very well delivered lecture Jen Gupta.

[@CyberSamurai4Life]

She's great.

[@QuinnWaters]

thank you!!! "a picture of the sun at night" could be a good song title...

[@McFugo]

My left ear is very well-informed

[@haltsinberg]

My audio's fine, guess they fixed it.

[@Stretch213]

Me like. I learn. Thanks

[@whirledpeas3477]

Enthusiastic; Unga Bunga 😊

[@litestuf]

It is so impressive (to me at least) to hear that you had the capacity to learn such a diverse litany of subjects equally. WOW!

[@NomadUniverse]

Not just Orion, Taurus and the Pleiades :D

[@pyrotash]

8:53 ?I don't think we have a good starting point for the future of the big members to not know what I first saw this on my way back to the road so I will be quiet and nothing else happening as ocasionaly you can pick up really couple low resolution of the big planets.

[@litestuf]

I think I can conclude she is smarter than me... :(

[@tonycmac]

Wonderful talk! Quite enjoyable.

[@danielfahrenheit4139]

its weird how infared burns you but you use visible light to see

[@doncarlin9081]

And RF burns too...

[@Benedicte1ful]

Maybe the gamma rays and radio waves and other light is in a circle and they are actually next to each other.

[@katiekat4457]

Excellent and very interesting talk

[@badad0166]

She sounds like Cecily Strong doing her brit character. Delightfoow.

[@Inertia888]

are we seeing "red-shifted" galaxies not because of expansion, but maybe because of light degradation?

[@venkateshbabu5623]

In a prism or inside a sphere how.

[@venkateshbabu5623]

How is microwave generated outside a sphere.

[@YNVNEone]

Who edits these thjngs?

[@whirledpeas3477]

Whos on 2nd !

[@Karnuvap]

That little giggle at 20:08 - I know what she's been told would happen if she accidentally pointed it towards herself at that range.

[@warlikelaughter6230]

24:45 rumpy ball shape?

[@hhocourierpcengineer]

I think the rumpy ball shape is actually a rugby ball shape bassed on the oval shape we see! and that's what I thought I heard her say. Might be the left panning of sound creating a refraction effect on the brain that somehow turns the GB into MP. lol just an imaginary theory. MP's do little to help much of the time anyway !

[@schmeegil2240]

Yh rugby ball shaped lol .

[@skroot7975]

The intro sound is way up again. :o

[@TheRoyalInstitution]

Is it? Darn, we'll have words with the team.

[@mokujin29]

@@TheRoyalInstitution All new uploads have the same issue , I mean , how difficult is it to tone it down before final post processing !

[@zenitza78]

Seems like the stereo sound isn't centered, as others have commented on it as well. Hopefully I'm one of very few but I can't focus on what she says at all because of this. Please be aware before releasing future videos.

[@szeredaiakos]

That accent by far the most gorgeous of all the British ones. Does anybody know from where it comes from? Also, it did conquer my geek heart.... At least half of it.

[@matthiasguenther6576]

Invisible nice guy? Yes, this problem is also still unsolved. ;-)

[@dremac3]

Eletric universe ftw!

[@Epoch11]

I am sorry to say that while you seem like a lovely person and you are definitely very intelligent, I was not exactly floored by your talk. I have heard much more boring topics discussed in a manner that made it interesting to the audience. Instead of telling people about the thing and then showing them, say the infrared camera for instance, I feel you should do it the other way round. Show them the image, create a bit of mystery and interest and THEN let people in on what the image or item means. Otherwise it comes off as a bit boring. I am sure you can truly create a much more engaging lecture and these are not simply pot shots at you. I promise. I think that in order to make sure an audience is listening and paying attention, you need to test an audience. Showing them something they might not understand and THEN explaining it, is a wonderful way for a speaker to make sure the audience is not just listening to the words, but intrigued as to what then explanations might be, Otherwise thank you for a lovely talk and I hope these kinds of presentations do bring about a greater interest in science.

[@TheAdwatson]

Suddenly interrupting a scientific lecture with adverts is extremely rude and annoying.

[@XavierMJames]

All it would take is some huge effort to bring down these outdated theories of entertainment about the much celebrated term universe, We are actually in a dead lock with of a bunch of theories and proof's in hand, desperately trying to connect the dots based on it. I don't agree that it's not that simple to explain the concept of universe without having a proper understanding of particle physics which we are still struggling,Gravity by itself a complex topic which we are blabbering a lot in public... Yes we can definitely do many wonderful stuffs by observing and using the current scientific calculations and assumptions, but that's not even close to what law actually governs the things out there...

[@erictaylor5462]

Which star, which would otherwise be visible from Earth is *NEVER* seen at night?

[@BPantherPink]

Eric Taylor: Our very own Sun ??

[@smyrnianlink]

Sun

[@erictaylor5462]

Believe it or not, I posted this question on another astronomy based video and this guy put up this huge long comment about how the Earth moves around the sun in such a way that all the stars you can see at night change over the year so stars that are in the daytime sky in December will be in the night sky in June. The person CLEARLY knew a thing or two about astronomy but he completely missed the one star that is never seen at night because it *DEFINES* the day time. After he figured out that it was the sun he said, "I think I need to quit my job now... As an astronomy teacher." LOL I don't know if he really was an astronomy teacher, or an astrophysist or if he was just fuill of shit, but I had a good laugh.

[@johnsummers9660]

Is it ok for me to say I might be in love? I don't know why I never looked for a Royal Institute KZbin channel. I guess I've always had this image of TRI as being filled with caddy but brilliant man babies in powdered wigs bitching about Hooke and Boyle bitching about each other or members getting into slap fights over whether Newton or Liebniz invented Calculus. I suppose I should've realized this isn't the 1650s.

[@lacyhart2043]

No that still goes on at least I hope so lol

[@GregWallis]

There are no colours, this is just our perception of different viewable wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.

[@kristis]

that's exactly what the colours are

[@smyrnianlink]

But the original phenomenon is continuous, we perceive it as discrete(ish). It is because our sensors detect frequency indirectly.

[@kavorka8855]

the statement "there are no colours" is false; it assumes there's such a thing as "colour" and then insists that it doesn't exist. Of course there are colours, they're names given by us humans to a set of range of the known electromagnetic spectrum. And, no, we cannot say colours are "subjective", they're not, but when we say, for example, light yellow, that could depend on what "light" meant.

[@Kalumbatsch]

Of course there are colours. If you have two photons, which one is blue and which one is red is an objective, measurable fact. If you want to play silly semantic games, fine, but it's complete nonsense.

[@Animuldok]

Actually, the phenomenon is not continuous, it is quantized.

[@Dragongaga]

I just hate it so much when they pronounce Betelgeuse like "Beetlejuice"

[@OrionMichaelGuy]

All of the Cores of the Cosmos, including Black Holes are Solid Crystal Core Quantum Computers! When the Black Hole gets heavy enough it does go through a dimensional shift and "falls" into a new set of Geometric Space-Time Think of it like this, the Supermassive Black Hole falls through this Space-Time Continuum and creates its own new Space-Time Continuum, and its own new Universe The physics are actually already mapped out, but the concept is that the new Universe within the Supermassive Black Hole has a "Time Rate" or a "Tickrate" that it MUCH faster than our own, so inside the Supermassive Black Hole Time occurs much faster compared to our continuum And because all Matter in the Universe, all the Crystal Cores of the Cosmos, through the use of quantum computations are actually able to grow not only themselves, but the space they occupy, the new Universe within the Supermassive Black Hole has the potential to either Grow and Expand, or it will Shrivel and Contract If the Supermassive Black Hole is growing! It will be able to spit Matter and Energy back up into the Universe that it is residing in and grow a Galaxy around itself! The idea is this, Planets grow into Stars, Stars grow larger and larger and have planetary nebula and give birth to more planets, the planets become stars, the biggest stars become black holes, the biggest black holes become galaxies, while each one is a Crystal Core Quantum Computer and through the use of physics they are all able to grow not only their Matter but they also grow the space they occupy I know it is simple, if not superficial to say planets become stars stars become black holes, black holes become supermassive black holes and host their own universe and then feed the universe that is supporting them by growing a galaxy around themselves, but that is exactly what is happening Just like life the Universe grows and expands, to infinity and beyond! The Universe is a Multidimensional Multiverse, that is a Cascade of Universes falling infinity into more and more massive and dense states Black Holes within Black Holes, Universes within Universe The physics is all mapped out, there is no big bounce and there is no big crunch, there is just the continuation of the ever expanding continuum, and the infinite continuums within video on quantum gravity - kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2Xcg5yKo6eFoNU Orion Michael Guy

[@BPantherPink]

Orion Michael Guy: Wrong... When the Black Hole gets heavy enough, her pants fall !!!

[@imaginashauns]

First she must pay back the money!

[@mokujin29]

Such a thick accent.

[@sblahhblah4296]

Sounds like most scientists today, everything stated as fact. Awful lot of assumptions here...

[@anitb1874]

First comment

[@anitb1874]

YouHolli I don't know what you are talking about

[@zaimahbegum-diamond1660]

Very boring. Weird because other talks at this forum are usually very exciting.

[@narsingojudharanmohan8a38]

So you are learning for entertainment not for education .🤣😂😂🤣

[@sundeutsch]

Your comment is more disgusting. This is lecture is basically learning science in a fun way.

[@VulcanXIV]

25% of the time she's saying something interesting, the rest of the time she's just feeding us information like a textbook...so very boring. Don't get me wrong either, I know this stuff and like space, but it's more of a engagement issue. So uninspiringgggg. I can't even settle with this being sleep material because it even makes my attempt to sleep feel like a chore. Well she's young and clearly very intelligent so I guess it's understandable how she sees just numbers and phrases

[@ivoboksem851]

I think that is aswell because there were a lot of kids in the audience so ofcourse she would have to explain things more than she would to people already knowing a lot about this.

[@aidilmubarock5394]

of course u find it boring u already know this knowledge, it target those who didnt, u arent the target audience

[@michaelaj4495]

I agree until the parts with the imaging that was interesting/engaging as hell even though I knew most of it

[@TGQwerty]

You are wrong in many ways. I encourage you to make such a quality presentation as this one here. Get bent.

[@ThisNoName]

What kind of sick person complains 50 minutes of hottie with a brain?! Sure she is not blonde in glasses with a whip, but nobody is perfect!

[@primemagi]

same Nonsense delivered by another person to perpetuate the ignorant model. MG1

[@primemagi]

final fandy, oh yes. If you do not believe ask them, I challenge any one publicly to confirm the structure of matter, moon, planet star and so on. MG1

[@user-kt6pv3jr6q]

Indian

[@vp4744]

Not really. She's probably entirely lived, raised, educated, and worked in the West. She'll probably live out her career in the West, as a very famous teacher and astronomer.

[@Srinivasan-oq9ec]

She is UK . Don't take useless pride for the sake of country, language or relegion. Its about her wisdom.

[@narsingojudharanmohan8a38]

@@Srinivasan-oq9ec but the blood won't change...indian

[@Srinivasan-oq9ec]

@@narsingojudharanmohan8a38 Yes. Blood is the reason for her hardwork, Intelligence & success

[@markmoody8418]

beetle juice is not a star it's an entire galaxy chain, not a star I can see the galaxy around it any fool can see it. Seriously how in gods name can you not see exactly what it is from any of the telescopes we have in space_ Do you actually see Beetlejuice and believe you see a star. Because that is insane. Its a galaxy chain along with the other galaxy chains near it.

[@chucknorris5788]

Please stop the drugs. Get help.

[@schmeegil2240]

Galaxy chain ? What are you on with.

[@sanjivkumarsethi3345]

Incomprehensible lecturer wastage of time and data

[@mancramps]

Hey, so when you are analyzing the light of a star, how do you isolate the light from just that one star?

[@whirledpeas3477]

Maybe you should study astronomy ?

[@h.r.k-akrc7953]

Hi need names of books to study of cosmology