Dr. Victoria Grinberg
@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Is there something you always wanted to ask an astrophysicist? Here is your chance.

I will try to answer as many questions as I can today. And if I enjoy it, we may repeat this later.

Some background: I'm a high energy astrophysicist working on black holes, neutron stars, accretion and massive stars with a pretty broad knowledge of the whole astro field (I did teach it at uni level), but little to no experience with hobby observing or astrophotography.

#AskAnAstrophysicist#AMA#astrodon
Dr. Victoria Grinberg
@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
@amoroso everything that is not cosmology, black holes or exoplanets has it REALLY hard in the media. We've done a lot of progress in recent decades understanding stellar evolution, especially massive stars and the role of binarity (or generally multiplicity) of stellar system. But this is harder to sell than "the biggest black hole" (done one of those myself, it's a cool result!) or "rugby-ball shaped exoplanet".
(Though take this with a grain of salt since I work on massive stars myself!)