Hawking was a bit of a trickster. And so his he bet against black holes, even though so much of his life had been devoted to understanding him. I think the story is he he broke into Kip's office at Caltech or some side. Wait, Steven Hawking? That's a detail left out of the story.
How do supermassive black holes form? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice come to you live to learn about the history of black holes, what’s inside them, and new discoveries with cosmologist Janna Levin and astrophysicist Jenny Greene.
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