# Dr. Rosalba Perna -- The Neighborhood of a Supermassive Black Hole Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-astrophysics-podcast-6738395/dr-rosalba-perna-the-neighborhood-of-a-supermassive-black-hole Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-astrophysics-podcast-6738395/dr-rosalba-perna-the-neighborhood-of-a-supermassive-black-hole.md Podcast: [The Astrophysics Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-astrophysics-podcast-6738395) Published: 2024-07-01T04:01:44+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/astrophysics/1459930 Audio file: https://content.rss.com/episodes/243526/1459930/astrophysics/2024_04_30_20_34_18_b173586e-996e-4fc1-926b-84b4a1de9e5a.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-astrophysics-podcast-6738395/episodes/dr-rosalba-perna-the-neighborhood-of-a-supermassive-black-hole Duration seconds: 3879 ## Resource Planets orbit stars, and moons orbit planets, so what orbits a supermassive black hole? Possibly a whole lot of stuff, including a gaseous disk, thousands of stars and more "normal size" black holes! Dr. Rosalba Perna tells us about all the crazy things that could be orbiting around the supermassive black holes that we detect at the center of active galaxies. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-astrophysics-podcast-6738395/episodes/dr-rosalba-perna-the-neighborhood-of-a-supermassive-black-hole/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-astrophysics-podcast-6738395/dr-rosalba-perna-the-neighborhood-of-a-supermassive-black-hole.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.