What do three feeding black holes packed into one ancient galaxy, an alien-signal search that covered millions of stars but almost none of the radio dial, a humpback whale song that changes with the dive, and a brain tumor treatment that works through the neck have in common? In every case, the real answer came from looking somewhere new.

In this episode of Gotta Be Kidding Me, host Tammy Coron covers four stories about perspective and place. A galaxy whose light has traveled more than 12.5 billion years holds not one but three active black holes, including a central pair that astronomers expect to eventually merge. And those mergers may explain why the earliest black holes grew so impossibly fast. A PhD researcher at the University of Manchester searched ALMA telescope data at radio frequencies almost no one has tried for  ...