Black Holes: Time-Warping Cosmic Paradoxes

How powerful is a singularity? Can anything escape from an event horizon? Do black holes “suck”?

Dive into the cosmic shadows with Shane and Duncan as they unravel the mind-warping, gravity-bending science behind black holes.

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In this episode:  

• Sagittarius A*
• Primordial Black Holes
• John Michell
• Dark stars
• Gravitationally Completely Collapsed Objects
• John Wheeler
• Cygnus X-1
• Event Horizon Telescope
• Messier 87
• Supernovae
• Red Giants, White Dwarves, Blue Supergiants
• Einstein and General Relativity
• Gravity
• Nuclear Forces and Electromagnetism
• Quantum Mechanics
• Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
• Quantum Entanglement
• Hawking Radiation/Evaporation
• Sanduleak −69 202
• Event Horizon
• Singularity
• Photon Sphere
• Accretion Discs
• Time Dilation
• TOE (Theory of Everything)
• String Theory
• Spaghettification

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