What Survives Inside A Black Hole?
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What Survives Inside A Black Hole?

C1AdvancedOctober 31, 202616 min
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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Uploaded 13-06-18 You can get a free trial of The Great Courses Plus at http://ow.ly/c7tI30hIva3 We’ve established by now that black holes are weird. The result of absolute gravitational collapse of a massive body: a point of hypothetical infinite density surrounded by an event horizon. At that horizon time is frozen and the fabric of space itself cascades inwards at the speed of light. Nothing can trave...

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We've established by now that black holes are weird.

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infinite density surrounded by an event horizon.

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Thanks to The Great Courses Plus for supporting PBS Digital Studios. I got a physics joke for you. A proton, an electron, and an anti-nutrino walk into a black hole. That's it. We've established by now that black holes are weird.

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The result of absolute gravitational collapse of a massive body, a point of hypothetical infinite density surrounded by an event horizon. At that horizon, time is frozen and the fabric of space itself cascades inwards at the speed of light.

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Nothing can travel faster than light and so nothing can escape from below the event horizon. Not matter, not light, not even information. These ideas are pretty mind-blowing, but as crazy as black holes are, they're also so kind of simple.

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