The Secret World Of Black Holes - Dr Becky Smethurst - #536
Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist, author, YouTuber and a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Black holes are the weirdest, densest, most mysterious objects in the universe. However they're not black, and they're not holes. In...
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Summary
Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist, author, YouTuber and a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.
Black holes are the weirdest, densest, most mysterious objects in the universe. However they're not black, and they're not holes. In fact pretty much everything you think you know about them is probably wrong.
Expect to learn why galaxies don't actually orbit black holes, why the biggest black hole in the universe needed an entirely different name, whether black holes can form without neutron stars, what happens when two black holes collide, why nothing can go faster than the speed of light and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:23) What’s Wrong with the Name ‘Black Holes?’
(09:19) The Formation of Black Holes
(16:37) Supermassive Black Holes
(26:43) What Happens When Two Black Holes Meet?
(29:32) The Latter Stages of the Universe
(34:27) The Universe’s Speed Limit
(43:38) Can Black Holes Form without a Neutron Star?
(50:48) What’s Next After the James Webb Space Telescope?
(55:01) Where to Find Dr Smethurst
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