The black hole that's nothing from the inside out again, but Hawking figured out this very clever way. The black hole could kind of steal energy from empty space. And it is only when he introduced the quantum that this happens only then. When I first learned this, you know what, freak me out. Maybe it'll blow another gasket for Chuck.
How do supermassive black holes form? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice come to you live to learn about the history of black holes, what’s inside them, and new discoveries with cosmologist Janna Levin and astrophysicist Jenny Greene.
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