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#536 - Dr Becky Smethurst - The Secret World Of Black Holes
Modern Wisdom
The Black Hole of Calcutta
The Black Hole of Calcutta is a prison cell in an old Fort William. British soldiers were imprisoned in this prison cell, which was the size of three double beds. A physicist called Robert Dickie used to say that if something was lost in their house, oh, it's gone to the Black Hole ofCalcutta. He started to use this phrase in his academic talks as sort of almost like brevity and advertising value.
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