Name: How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
Uploaded: 2015-04-21T15:07:41Z
Duration: 4 min 9 s
Description: Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she's an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes. In a charming talk, she takes us trillions of kilometers from Earth to introduce us to objects that can be 1 to 10 billion times the mass of the sun — and which shoot powerful jet streams of particles in our direction.

Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she's an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes. In a charming talk, she takes us trillions of kilometers from Earth to introduce us to objects that can be 1 to 10 billion times the mass of the sun — and which shoot powerful jet streams of particles in our direction.

Jedidah Isler: How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe

How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe

Exploring blazars, the universe's most efficient particle accelerators, revealing how they challenge our understanding of physics.

Astrophysicist decodes gamma ray blobs in blazars, inching closer to unlocking the secrets of supermassive black hole jets.

From stargazing girl to astrophysicist, a journey fueled by love for the cosmos unlocks secrets of the universe's most powerful objects.