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Black Hole Bonanza: StarTalk Live! With Janna Levin and Jenny Greene

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The Event Horizon

If you can throw faster than seven miles per second, it will leave Earth and never come back. Even going at the speed of light, you could not escape the gravitational pull of a black hole. The region that Jenny is talking about, beyond which not even like an escape is known as the event horizon. It's just a demarcation line. There's nothing there.

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