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#536 - Dr Becky Smethurst - The Secret World Of Black Holes

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Is There a Black Hole?

What is the form of matter that's in a Black Hole then? If a neutron star is neutrons pushed together in this perfect form of a crystal, what would that can't be as dense as it could be because there's something denser than that and that's a Black Hole? Exactly. And unfortunately, that's one of those questions that we don't know. So inside that event horizon where it's sort of that shroud that you're no longer receiving any light, so there's no information. You have no idea what's going on inside that sphere of darkness essentially. But under the laws of physics is we understand them, we will probably never know.

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