Cosmic Queries – Black Hole Paradox with Matt O’Dowd

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🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Can we use gravitational lensing to view distant planets? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore black holes, quasars, entropy, and more with astrophysicist and host of PBS Space Time, Matt O’Dowd.

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0:00.0	On the next episode of Stark Talk, it's a cosmic queries with my friend and colleague, Matt O'Dowd,
0:07.2	who's an expert in weird and wacky stuff in the universe, including black holes, quasars,
0:14.2	gravitational lenses, and the like. So what is at the threshold of a quasar? Could the big rip rip into black holes?
0:24.9	And more coming up on Stark Talk Cosmic Queries.
0:32.6	Welcome to Stark Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:40.9	Stark Talk begins right now.
0:45.7	This is Stark Talk. You'll digress Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:51.2	A guy with me, Chuck, nice, Chuck, baby. Hey, Neil was happy.
0:54.9	All right, we're doing cosmic queries today.
0:57.3	Yes.
0:58.1	Yeah, and today we've got a friend and colleague and a friend of Stark Talk and a friend of mine.
1:04.0	Matt, Dowd, Matt, welcome back to Stark Talk.
1:06.0	Great to be here again, Neil. How you doing?
1:08.1	And Matt, is that a fake zoom background behind you? Or like, what is that?
1:13.4	Well, if the simulation hypothesis is correct, then yes, but I think I'm actually outside.
1:20.5	I'm on my day.
1:23.3	Very nice.
1:23.7	No, I think we hear birds and things. That's very beautiful.
1:26.1	Here, expertise is black holes, quays are, as gravitational lensing, really juicy, tasty, cosmic things.
1:33.6	All of which will kill you if you're in the vicinity of the most hostile part of the cosmos.
1:42.0	Exactly.
1:44.4	You teach at a Lehman College of the City University of New York.
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