We haven't photographed the collision of two black holes, but we know exactly what it would look like. To have all three collide with each other at the same time is statistically sufficiently unlikely. And that's what we waited one point three billion years to detect. When we finally turned on the lazer, inter perometer, gravitational wave observatory,. I go check it out. It's beautiful. That is amazing and so now what?
What happens when three black holes collide? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore even more cosmic collisions in space, in the quantum realm, and more!
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