Black Hole Bonanza: StarTalk Live! With Janna Levin and Jenny Greene

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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How do supermassive black holes form? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice come to you live to learn about the history of black holes, what’s inside them, and new discoveries with cosmologist Janna Levin and astrophysicist Jenny Greene.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:13.0	Villanelphia, we are back at the Keswick Theater.
0:17.0	StarTalk Live!
0:19.0	We're now going to talk about black holes.
0:32.0	And I have some expertise in black holes, but not enough to fill the length of this show.
0:38.0	So we combed the landscape for my colleagues who spend their lives thinking about black holes.
0:45.0	We found one of them at Princeton University, not even that far up the street.
0:50.0	As far as distances go, welcome to the stage Jenny Green, Professor of Astrophysics.
0:56.0	Jenny, there she goes!
1:07.0	She's always known as the black hole hunter.
1:11.0	We're going to find out what that means.
1:14.0	So you study supermassive black holes and how to find them and where they're located in the universe.
1:20.0	So you're a black hole hunter.
1:23.0	And you also, she is faculty director of the Prison Teaching Initiative at Princeton.
1:31.0	This is, Princeton has a program where the faculty go to the prison and teach you teach out the black holes.
1:40.0	So that the prisoners can come out with some kind of a degree and reduce the recidivism.
1:46.0	Yes!
1:47.0	We salute you!
1:48.0	Next, another black hole expert.
1:51.0	One of our favorites, she's a regular on StarTalk, really.
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