How powerful is a singularity? Can anything escape from an event horizon? Do black holes “suck”?
Dive into the cosmic shadows with Shane and Duncan as they unravel the mind-warping, gravity-bending science behind black holes.
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In this episode:
- Sagittarius A*
- Primordial Black Holes
- John Michell
- Dark stars
- Gravitationally Completely Collapsed Objects
- John Wheeler
- Cygnus X-1
- Event Horizon Telescope
- Messier 87
- Supernovae
- Red Giants, White Dwarves, Blue Supergiants
- Einstein and General Relativity
- Gravity
- Nuclear Forces and Electromagnetism
- Quantum Mechanics
- Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
- Quantum Entanglement
- Hawking Radiation/Evaporation
- Sanduleak −69 202
- Event Horizon
- Singularity
- Photon Sphere
- Accretion Discs
- Time Dilation
- TOE (Theory of Everything)
- String Theory
- Spaghettification
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