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Black Hole Bonanza: StarTalk Live! With Janna Levin and Jenny Greene

StarTalk Radio

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Einstein's Theory of the Curved Spacetime

Einstein does a thought experiment: imagine you crush the entire mass of a star to a point. He doesn't ask how this is possible or how nature could do such an absurd thing. And then he asks of Einstein's equations to reveal to him what the nature of the curved spacetime is as a result of that. "He couldn't believe it's six months after Einstein publishes his theory"

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