
Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes
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Is It a Black Hole, or a Quanum Number?
Black holes are so fundamental and so indistinguishable, except for what their mass, their charge and their spin tye. If it was a black hole te mass of the sun, it would be about six kilometers across. That would fit in manhattan. And that's superinteresting, that holes are small. The mathematician in you loves their simplicity. It sounds like we can do these very stylized mathematical solutions around the black hole space time because it's so stunningly simple. We took an idealized black holl. We took a black hole, period. At the end of the day, what we had was this perfect object. Theyre feels like there should be arent detected any more
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