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#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics
Lex Fridman Podcast
How to Learn About the Black Hole
A black hole is a mirror. If light, a photon bounces off your face towards the black hole and it goes straight to the black hole, just falls in and you never see it again. But not only can that happen, the black hole,. the photon can swing around twice and come back. So you actually see an infinite number of copies of yourself. Like with a little bit of a delay. Right? This is awesome. Yeah. And in fact, I mean, we're not used to an object that bends light like that. It's very unusual. We're going to take the stuff that is swirling around. And we're going to tease out the subsequent images and look at
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