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

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The Black Hole

We didn't see a black hole for many decades. It's because this reputation of black holes sucking up everything is overblown. Things can live very close to the event horizon of a black hole and be very hot. There's stuff swirling around it, but it has some energy, right? And so it can't just fall right in. So how are you seeing something when nothing can escape it? That's what I want to know.

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