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AaS! 010: How do black holes form?

Ask a Spaceman!

Paul M. Sutter

Astrophysics, Science, Cosmos, Holes, Black, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Universe, Cosmology, Space, Physics

4.8853 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How do black holes form? Why are there only two sizes (Small and Big Gulp)? How do we know black holes exist, and what purpose do they serve in the universe? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman!

Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman, Twitter@PaulMattSutter, http://www.Facebook.com/PaulMattSutter, and http://www.askaspaceman.com for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.

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0:00.0

You know what time it is. It's time for Ask a Spaceman. I'm your host, Paul Sutter. You've got questions, and I've got answers. You know how this show works, but I'm not talking to you right

0:22.6

now so you can mute or fast forward or do whatever because I'm talking to someone else. I'm

0:27.9

talking to the one person who is listening to this show for the very first time and this is

0:34.0

their first episode. First off, welcome aboard the good ship Spaceman. Well,

0:40.2

good to have you aboard. Second of all, here's how the show works. You go online to Facebook or

0:46.9

Twitter. Use the hashtag Ask a Spaceman and ask some questions and I answer them on this show.

0:52.9

You can also follow me directly on Facebook

0:54.9

and Twitter. My name is Paul Matt Sutter. And you can also go to Ask a Spaceman.com and you can also

1:02.0

find me on YouTube. Just search for Ask a Space Man. All those ways to ask questions and have

1:07.6

comments and have a good time because in this show we are trying to

1:11.8

have complete knowledge of time and space it's going to take a while but we're going to do

1:17.6

a one question at a time but in this episode actually we're going to do it like three questions at a

1:23.5

time and here's why because i like to take questions and actually I'm getting lots of

1:28.0

questions, folks. Thanks so much for all the questions. I actually have two many questions to

1:33.4

answer. So I'm trying to combine them together in interesting ways to make a show out of a few

1:38.7

questions. And in this case, last episode we did a double header with two questions in one. Now we're doing three

1:46.4

questions in one, triple header, new record for Ask a Space Man. Here are the three questions I got.

1:54.5

One from Mandy. How do we know about Blackholes? Like, how do we know they exist and all that cool stuff I talked about in the spiketification episode,

2:05.3

in the episode about what would it be like to fall into a black hole?

2:08.5

How do we know all that junk?

2:10.6

Good question.

2:11.6

Fair question, Mandy.

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