• Question: What got you interested in blackholes and 'discovering the secrets of the universe'?

    Asked by redo532syne4 to ievajankute on 26 Sep 2025.
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      Ieva Jankute answered on 26 Sep 2025:


      There were many reasons why I got interested in the Universe, followed by an interest in black holes! Probably, one of the main ones was my granddad. He was a military meteorologist, but would talk to me about anything to do with the sky. Another reason was probably one of my favourite childhood video games called “Hugo in Space”, oh and the many encyclopaedias that I had. Eventually, I got interested in the complexity and so many unanswered questions that there are about the Universe. This is also where black holes started to be interesting to me – they seemed to be one of the most complex and least understood objects in the universe!

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