Black holes are cold because they're empty. If i go up to the event horizon of a black hole, nothing's there. There's no dense object. There's nothing solid. It's empty space time. And this is the great mystery. What happens to the star? We don't know. But it's gone. The star is gone. You can almost think of spacetime as like a waterfall raining into the black hull. That's what we mean by the event horizon. In the gravitational curvature of space time you have an energy that has got to be there. So sothis gets to be there right? Yes,. Right?, says Janner. Well, i've
Is anything real? Is time just a construct? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen answer your far-out questions about black holes, dark matter, and the universe with astrophysicist Janna Levin.
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