Modern Wisdom

#536 - Dr Becky Smethurst - The Secret World Of Black Holes

Oct 8, 2022

58:34

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Do Black Holes Ever Form Without a Neutron Star?

03:52

The Black Hole From a Neutron Star

02:32

Is the Black Hole What's Holding the Galaxy Together?

03:54

Introduction

4min

Black Holes - I Hate Them So Much

2min

The Black Hole of Calcutta

2min

What Is the Problem With Black Holes?

3min

Is a Neutron Star a Black Hole?

2min

The Black Hole From a Neutron Star

3min

Is There a Black Hole?

2min

The Infinisimally Small Black Hole

3min

Is There a Supermassive Black Hole in Every Galaxie?

3min

10.

Is the Black Hole What's Holding the Galaxy Together?

4min

11.

Is There a Band of No Man's Land Between the Material and the Black Hole?

2min

12.

The Biggest Black Hole in the Universe

4min

13.

Hawking Radiation

5min

14.

The Schwarzschild Radius

5min

15.

Is It a Paradox That Nothing Can Move Faster Than the Speed of Light?

3min

16.

The Event Horizon Is Related to the Mass of a Black Hole

2min

17.

Do Black Holes Ever Form Without a Neutron Star?

4min

18.

What's the Best Image of a Black Hole?

3min

19.

James Webb Space Telescope

4min

20.

Dr. Becky Smathers, Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm on YouTube

2min

Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist, author, YouTuber and a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

Black holes are the weirdest, densest, most mysterious objects in the universe. However they're not black, and they're not holes. In fact pretty much everything you think you know about them is probably wrong.

Expect to learn why galaxies don't actually orbit black holes, why the biggest black hole in the universe needed an entirely different name, whether black holes can form without neutron stars, what happens when two black holes collide, why nothing can go faster than the speed of light and much more...

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