The friction is the gas spiraling down losing energy that it had. It's got to end up slow enough to drop in. This friction, you've done this in cold weather, but you can just do it now. Rub your hands. You know the result, but just try it. Clap them and then go heal somebody. First he claps. Do you run? Yeah. And now you'll hear it. I told you Chuck needs repairs. So we're not seeing anything from the black hole itself. All we're seeing is what's happening around the black hole.
How do supermassive black holes form? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice come to you live to learn about the history of black holes, what’s inside them, and new discoveries with cosmologist Janna Levin and astrophysicist Jenny Greene.
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