Brendan Gebasi says he saw the Northern Lights from right here on this deck a few weeks ago for the first time in his life. And is it possible for a black hole of any size to be a quasar given it has enough matter around it to heat up and how close does it have to be to the Milky Way? Chuck, can you elaborate on the news that is quickly spreading about the hole that's 20 times the size of Earth in the sun? I mean, I don't think that's related to a black hole because our cell could never be one. He's got anxiety. Tell me about the, hey man, should I worry about the hole in the sun
Can we use gravitational lensing to view distant planets? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore black holes, quasars, entropy, and more with astrophysicist and host of PBS Space Time, Matt O’Dowd.
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