Previously the only way to image black holes was with the Event Horizon Telescope, a combination of many radio telescopes across the globe. But with Vera Rubin going online soon, there might be a simpler way to observe black holes with a single telescope using a really clever method. 🟣 Guest: Dr Matt O'Dowdhttps://www.mattodowd.space/📜 Resolving the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes with GravitationalMicrolensinghttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.10500👉 PBS Spacetimehttps://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime🦄 Support us on Patreon:https://patreon.com/universetoday📚 Suggest books in the book club:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:00 Intro01:45 Observing gravitationally lensed quasars12:58 Why Vera Rubin19:04 Best case scenario23:22 What do we know about black holes38:21 Current obsessions44:31 Final thoughts📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/m2xtVfpfeWQ📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT FRASER[email protected]⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)