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Black Hole Bonanza: StarTalk Live! With Janna Levin and Jenny Greene

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The Bifurcation of the Eyes

It's like when you see that zebra getting eaten by the lions, and it's looking down at them like, I can't believe y'all eating me, man. So... You bifurcate first into two parts, then your bottom half and upper half bIfurcate again. As you're falling in, you are being funneled down to a narrower and narrower volume of spacetime. The molecules that previously held you together, the tidal forces end up splitting those. And you become the stream of atoms descending to this cosmic abyss.

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