#536 - Dr Becky Smethurst - The Secret World Of Black Holes
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Dr. Becky Smedest. She's an astrophysicist, |
| 0:07.5 | author, YouTuber and a junior research fellow at the University of Oxford. Black holes are the |
| 0:13.2 | weirdest, densest, most mysterious objects in the universe. However, they're not black and they're |
| 0:19.8 | not holes. In fact, pretty much everything you know about them is probably wrong. Expect to learn |
| 0:26.0 | why galaxies don't actually orbit black holes. Why the biggest black hole in the universe |
| 0:31.5 | needed an entirely different name? Whether black holes can form without neutron stars, |
| 0:36.4 | what happens when two black holes collide? Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light? |
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