The Mind-Bending Math Inside Black Holes

NASA's Curious Universe

Katie Konans

Science

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Black holes are mysterious, far away, and can bend the fabric of reality itself—but we're learning more about them all the time. Ronald Gamble, a NASA theoretical astrophysicist, uses math, computer coding, and a dash of creativity to peer inside some of the universe's most extreme objects. We'll explore what it would feel like to get pulled into a black hole and what people get wrong about black holes. And we'll answer questions from curious listeners, including, "What would happen if a black hole ate nothing but magnetized material?"

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0:00.0	I just want to get straight into the fun stuff.
0:02.1	So like if you and I are in a spaceship and we're headed straight toward a black hole,
0:07.7	like what is that going to be like for us?
0:09.9	Like what's happening?
0:11.9	It's going to get weird really fast.
0:16.2	This is NASA's curious universe.
0:19.0	Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. And in this podcast,
0:23.6	NASA is your tour guide. I'm your host for today, Jacob Pinner. In this episode, buckle
0:29.0	up because we're diving in to black holes. They are some of the most mysterious objects in the
0:35.6	universe. Ronald Gamble will help us understand what we know about
0:39.7	black holes and what's left to find out. We'll debunk some of the biggest myths about black holes.
0:46.9	And we'll answer some burning questions sent in by you, the listeners.
0:53.0	Ronald Gamble is a theoretical astrophysicist at NASA.
0:57.3	Now, just to set the record straight, he hasn't actually been inside a black hole.
1:02.0	No one has.
1:03.0	But as a NASA astrophysicist, Ronald knows what's going on in there better than just about anybody.
1:09.5	A black hole is a region of space time, right?
1:13.6	Yeah.
1:14.6	We know space and time where the gravity is kind of so immense, where planets, stars, galaxies,
1:21.6	smaller galaxies, even light photons can't escape out.
1:25.6	And they are very, very complex objects, but they're very simple at the same time.
1:31.2	Now, we still have tons of questions about how black holes work. But thanks to physicists like
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