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Gravity, with Marcus Chown

Instant Genius

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What Is the Biggest Black Hole?

In enstein's picture, one actually happens. A mass warps time around it, so it cros and a valley in a spacetime. If you compress that mass to a critical amount, the valley becomes infinitely deep. So it becomes like an infinite well and an infinite pit. And really what actually happens is li it cannot actually climb out of that pit because as it climbs out, it loses energy. But interestingly, the bigger the black hole, the less extreme the conditions around itandin galaxiesa including our own milky way. We've got no idea why this is the case. There is the supermassive black hole in pretty much every galaxy. Some of them up to

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