[Q&A] SMBH Images, Primordial Gravitational Waves, Terraforming Tidally-Locked Planets from Universe Today Podcast

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[Q&A] SMBH Images, Primordial Gravitational Waves, Terraforming Tidally-Locked Planets

20 minutes Posted Jun 26, 2025 at 11:00 pm.

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[Poshact] What's the feasibility of terraforming a tidally-locked planet?

[Jay Drummond] Why it's okay for space companies to dump rockets into the ocean?

[Scott Smillie] Is the image of Sag A not real?

[Richard R] Do we expand the observable Universe if we launch a telescope 1 ly from Earth?

[michael blacktree] Can we observe gravitational waves before the CMB?

[Uğur E.] When do we start orbiting our SMBH after leaving the solar system?

[drZab] Should we be building a big spaceship in orbit?

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Does terraforming a tidally-locked planet make any sense? Are the images we got of our galaxy's supermassive black hole fake? Can we observe gravitational waves that came before the CMB? And in Q&A+ who is currently working on space elevators? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show.

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