This chapter discusses the formation of black holes and the ratio between black holes and regular stars. It explores the possibility of black holes coalescing and creating larger black holes. The episode also debates the rarity of black holes and the integration of the initial mass function of stars to determine the fraction of stars born with a mass higher than the threshold for black hole formation.
What if time had multiple dimensions? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab-bag questions about Hawking Radiation, the speed of light, and how rare black holes are with astrophysicist Charles Liu.
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