Oh, hey, it's your friend's dog with the snaggle-tooth,

Allie Ward.

We're going to take a deep breath, all right?

We got this.

We got it.

And let's get illuminated on the topic of black holes, shall we?

So this ologist is a theoretical astrophysicist and a cosmic origins

scientist in the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland,

and he got his bachelor's in physics, a master's in

condensed matter physics and that deals with how matter arises and then he

just topped off those degrees with a casual PhD in theoretical astrophysics at North Carolina

agricultural and technical state university. So we were introduced by Ology's fan favorite guest. You love her, Dr. Raven, the Science Maven, Baxter.

And I trust her taste in everything. So I asked this NASA scientist to please meet me the next time

he was in LA and be prepared to steal himself for questions that a six-year-old might ask about what is a black hole.

He obliged and explained things so well, we're all going to learn enough to impress at least an eight-year-old, but also maybe the people who work in our office,

who are going to think that we're geniuses. So he showed up. He was wearing the coolest boots I've ever seen.

They were this like dressy above the ankle with like embroidered gold

floral motifs and we headed into my home studio with two cups of tea and a small

goblin named my dog.

But before we get and do it,

thank you so much to everyone at Patreon.com

slash ologies who submitted questions

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