The Littlest Black Hole

Radiolab for Kids

WNYC

Parenting, Education For Kids, Stem, Education, Pets & Animals, Radiolab, Podcast, Storytelling, Children, Kids & Family, Kids, Science, Terrestrials, Educational, Nature, Family-friendly, Fun, Animals

4.4 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A small black hole’s journey to Earth.

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0:00.0	Listener supported W.NYC Studios.
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0:14.1	All right.
0:15.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:18.5	Flickin.
0:19.2	Radio Lab.
0:20.2	From W. NY.N-Y-S.
0:22.4	See?
0:23.2	Yep.
0:27.6	Hello, it's LULU.
0:31.6	Hello, it's Lulu, and I'm talking like this because here in the Northern Hemisphere anyway, we are
0:38.9	fast approaching the darkest day of the year. That's right, the winter solstice is just about a
0:49.1	week away. That's the day when the night is the longest, the day is the shortest.
1:01.6	And in honor of that, I thought I would play a really neat story about one of the darkest places in the universe.
1:04.1	A black hole.
1:14.7	Only this story isn't about those giant black holes you've probably heard of. No, this is about the littlest, tiniest, tiniest black hole that I've ever heard about.
1:21.4	It's so small it could fit in your pocket, although you probably would not want to put it there.
1:30.2	We are going to hear the story from the wonderful radio lab reporter Annie McEwen. She sat down to tell the tale to me and reporter
1:38.1	Molly Webster. Here we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, where do you want to start?
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