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Black Holes

Places where gravity wins completely. How stars collapse into black holes, the event horizon and the Schwarzschild radius, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, gravitational waves and the first images, and Hawking radiation.

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Black Holes and the Fundamental Laws of Physics - with Jerome Gauntlett The Royal Institution · 63 min
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Prereqs: Gravity & orbits; Einstein (Great Minds); Stars & how they die. Next: Galaxies & the Big Bang. Sources: Kip Thorne's *Black Holes and Time Warps*, Nobel Prizes 2017 (LIGO) and 2020 (Penrose, Genzel, Ghez), Event Horizon Telescope releases.
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