How did this unravel getting to this research paper?

Right.

So, you know, as you're aware, one of the things I'm really interested in is how those supermassive black holes that you were talking about in the news section, how they vary with time.

And we study them with both ground based telescopes and satellites to try and understand what that that disk of gas, that accretion disk is doing.

And a few years ago, we thought we would try and identify these really extreme flaring events, the things that involve them brightening many, many times.

Just to see if we could catalog that behavior in the big data sets that time domain surveys are producing.

So we have various telescopes around the world which are looking up at the night sky every night.

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ask the questions, not contribute.

The one that I'm currently most recognizable for and have the most negative feedback for is Synex.

Is that a commercial that you're in? Yeah.

So I'm going to just go heavy on that.

The commercial involves me being sick and then using the product.

And then I smell this smell and it happens to be a dirty diaper that my wife has just changed.

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So what is the increasingly widespread adoption of AI meant for cybersecurity? And in particular, what does that mean for boards?

Yeah, sure.

I mean, you're absolutely right because so much has changed.

I mean, even the six months since we last spoke, right? The, the, the AI landscape is changing.

New models are coming out all the time.

We've got agentic AI being the biggest thing now that people are talking about.

So what it, what it really has meant then...

Can, can you talk about how organizations are using AI to make themselves more cyber safe? And then I guess the other side of that is how are nefarious actors using AI in their cyber attacks?

What else do you want, Professor? Thank you.

Well, I, yes, so actually, the, the problem with, with Webb and, and Hubble is both that their field of view is actually very small, so they go very deep, but they don't see a large area of sky.

And, and f- for searching for these sorts of things, what we really want is we want a space telescope with a very large field of view.

So, we want something like the Roman Space Telescope that's gonna be launched next year.

Um, so what I would ideally want is I would set up a whole network of space telescopes with very large fields of view so that we could just essentially perpetually monitor most of the sky, um, from space, um, at optical wavelengths or maybe near infrared.

But then I think also which would, would be very valuable is having capability to do this at other wavelengths as well, so certainly the, the ultraviolet and the X-ray.

And so I think having that sort of capability of multi-wavelength monitoring from space of large areas of sky would, would really help us find all of the flaring black holes out there, which would give us a, a much better understanding of, of how these things work and how they contribute to how galaxies evolve and that sort of thing.

If you were, um, just starting your graduate studies in astrophysics, would you ad- advise a student to go into black hole work? Is this a, a promising career field for the future?

What is a black hole, Professor, and what is a flare? Good evening to you.

Good evening.

So that's a very good question.

So, um, it is true that nothing can escape a black hole once you're across the event horizon, because that's where you would have to be traveling faster than light to be able to escape.

And, and, you know, we currently think nothing can go faster than light.

But if you get too close to a black hole, you can end up in orbit around it, and what we think is that most galaxies in the universe have a super massive black hole in the middle.

The Milky Way does, the Andromeda galaxy does.

Um, if you could observe this real time instead of 10 billion light years in the past, what would it be doing? Would it, would it still be in existence? What do, what, what light or what would be emitting from it?