Supermassive black holes: most powerful objects in the universe, Martin Gaskell, TEDx Merit Academy

Have you ever wondered whether black holes exist And if so, how do astronomers study them What would it be like to be close to a black hole UCSC astrophysicist Dr. Martin Gaskell has spent his career studying what happens around supermassive black holes in the centers of distant galaxies. He explains in simple, everyday language recent progress in understanding what is going on around these extraordinary objects as they eat up matter around them. Martin Gaskell is a researcher in the Department of As