In1908,onasunny,clear,quietmorninginSiberia,witnessesrecallseeingablindinglightstreakacrossthesky,andthen…theearthshook,aforestwasflattened,fishwerethrownfromstreams,androofswereblownoffhouses.The“Tunguskaevent,”asitcametobeknown,wasoneofthelargestextraterrestrialimpacteventsinEarth’shistory.Butwhatkindofimpact—whatexactlystrucktheearthinthemiddleofSiberia?—isstillupfordebate.ProducerAnnieMcEwendivesintooneideathatsuggestsaculpritsomysterious,sopowerful,so…tiny,youwon’tbelieveyourears.Andstrangerstill,itmaybeinyourightnow.Or,accordingtoSeniorCorrespondentMollyWebster,itcouldbeYou.EPISODECREDITSReportedby-AnnieMcEwenandMollyWebsterProducedby-AnnieMcEwenandBeccaBresslerwithhelpfrom-MattKieltyOriginalmusicandsounddesigncontributedby-JeremyBloom,AnnieMcEwen,MattKieltyMixingby-JeremyBloomwithdialoguemixingby-ArianneWackFact-checkingby-DianeKellyandeditedby -AlexNeason

GUESTSMattO’Dowd(https://www.mattodowd.space/)SpecialThanks: 

Specialthanksto,MatthewE.Caplan,BrianGreene,PriyamvadaNatarajan,AlmogYalinewich

EPISODECITATIONS

Videos:Watch“PBSSpaceTime,”(https://zpr.io/GNhVAWDday49)thegroovyshowandside-gigofphysicistandepisodeguestMattO’Dowd

Articles:Readmore (https://zpr.io/J4cKYG5uTgNf)abouttheTunguskaimpactevent!Checkoutthepaper (https://zpr.io/vZxkKtGQczBL),whichconsiderstheshapeofthecrateraprimordialblackholewouldmake,shouldithitearth:“CraterMorphologyofPrimordialBlackHoleImpacts”Curioustolearnmoreaboutblackholespossiblybeingdarkmatter?Youcaninthepaper(https://zpr.io/sPpuSwhGFkDJ),“Exploringthehigh-redshiftPBH-ΛCDMUniverse:earlyblackholeseeding,thefirststarsandcosmicradiationbackgrounds”

 

Books: 

Getyourglowon–SeniorCorrespondentMollyWebsterhasanewkidsbook,afictionaltaleaboutalonelyLittleBlackHole(https://zpr.io/e8EKrM7YF32T)

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