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#536 - Dr Becky Smethurst - The Secret World Of Black Holes

Modern Wisdom

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The Infinisimally Small Black Hole

There are varying sizes from Black Hole to supermassive Black Hole. It would suggest that it can't be uniform, says Professor John Boulden. We just have this dearth of things in the middle - we've never found anything between 100 to a million or so times the mass of the sun. So you'd think if these black holes were growing all the time to become supermassive, you'd see something in the middle, but we don't. And that's one question we're hoping maybe James, the James up Space Telescope will be able to help answer.

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