The Quasar from The Beginning of Time | STELLAR

Thank you to Draper and its "We Hack the Moon" initiative for supporting PBS Digital Studios.Learn more at https://wehackthemoon.com.Uploaded 20-06-19PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACECheck out Physics Girl visit LIGO to see where they discovered Gravitational Waveshttps://youtu.be/jtp71NT0GNgRecently, the oldest quasar ever seen was discovered by the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, as well as the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. In this first episode of the PBS DS mini-series, STELLAR, Matt travels to the top of Mauna Kea to visit the Gemini North telescope and see just how they found this ancient Quasar and it’s massive black hole. Stellar is a brand new miniseries done in collaboration with Dianna Cowern from @Physics Girl and Joe Hanson from @It's Okay To Be Smart Over six episodes we travel to some of the world's most important telescopes, go inside amazing space research centers, and talk with brilliant scientists. Next up, Dianna from Physics Girl visits LIGO observatory in Washington that detected the very first gravitational waves. Then Joe Hanson visits one of the telescopes that was part of world spanning Event Horizon Telescope. You'll be able to see future episodes on the Physics Girl and It’s Okay to be Smart YouTube channels, as well as the PBS Digital Studios Facebook page. Stellar is a part of the PBS Summer of Space. There will be lots of awesome space-related content all summer long on PBS. See what's happening at https://www.pbs.org/summer-of-space/ #SummerOfSpacePBS #astrophysics #spaceSpecial Thanks to Joy Pollard and Gemini Observatory for all their help making this episode. Check out the new Space Time Merch Store!https://pbsspacetime.com/Support Space Time on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Hosted by Matt O'DowdWritten by: Sophia Chen, Matt O'Dowd, Andrew Kornhaber, Eric BrownDirected by: Eric Brown and Andrew KornhaberProducer: Randa Eid Director of Photography: Eric BrouseSound: Tobi NovaProduction Assistant: Anna BoskettiEditing: Pavel EzrohiGraphics: Murilo LopesAssistant Editing: Daniel Sircar Produced By: Kornhaber Brown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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