
Listener Questions 41: Questions about the mass of the Universe, moons made of gas, and backyard blackholes.
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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How to Stick Your Finger in a Black Hole
You can get closer to a building mass black hole then you can't actually to the center of mass of a building. So if I stick a metal finger into it I would see it go in I could poke the black hole but then when I pull my finger it will have eaten whatever was inside of the event horizon. And the last thing you tried to stick in would take forever to actually fall in until something else comes along and pulls out the event horizon over it. All right well I think that answers Stuart's question don't stick your finger in a black hole.
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