Black Hole Bonanza: StarTalk Live! With Janna Levin and Jenny Greene
StarTalk Radio
The Challenges of Black Hole Exploration
We have our own super massive black hole. And the thing about black holes is that they're spatially small. That's less than 20 times the width of the sun, but it's four million times the mass. So picture the sun on the sky. Imagine just 20 times across and this thing is- And then you can have a million suns. 4 million. Four million. And then push it 26,000 light years away. It's like a tiny teeny little thing on the night sky. We have this rare many jokes I'm not doing right. Oh. All right. Now we've got to get back to work.
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