Black Holes, Wormholes and Donut Holes
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
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The Black Wholl Puzzle
Mitchell had ideas about earthquakes and gravity and stars. He was first person who wrote about something like a black hole. Mitchell knew about density and mass, but scientists still had a lot to learn about the way gravity and light work. Physicists have figured out more of the rules about gravity and light,. Some of those missing puzzle pieces are now being put into equations. And when scientists put all those new puzzle pieces together, they started discovering really, really, really big stars. This is denser than anything we've ever seen before. The densest o wait, is that one over there even denser? I call them dark starrs.
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