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#536 - Dr Becky Smethurst - The Secret World Of Black Holes
Modern Wisdom
Is There a Band of No Man's Land Between the Material and the Black Hole?
The usual way that black holes grow is by what we call accretion, which is from this gas that's spiraling around the black hole. So if you think about it in terms of like molecules with energy that are all pinging around and they've got enough energy to keep them on an orbit. But if they collide with another molecule, it's like a game of pool or snooker,. You know, you hit the cue ball into another ball and the cue ball stops and the other one goes flying. If that kind of collision happens where one of these molecules stops, all of a sudden that disrupts that orbit and it can fall in because that pull of gravity from the black
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