Aerogels are heat resistant to extreme temperatures, up to 1300 degrees Celsius, but they are very fragile. There is potential to develop applications or apparatus that can harness this unique property of aerogels.
Are black holes places or objects? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab-bag questions about distorting spacetime, Olbers’ Paradox, singularities, the shape of the universe, and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.
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