This is Tanya Mosley, co-host of Fresh Air, and I just talked to Pamela Anderson about her big career comeback after years in the tabloids and not being taken seriously.

She's entered a new era on stage and screen.

Suzanne Summers had a great line. She said, you can't play a dumb blonde and be a dumb blonde.

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From NPR.

In pop culture, black holes have developed this reputation for gobbling things up.

Being these points in the universe where all matter, even light, is inescapably sucked up into this extraordinarily dense black void.

They're often seen as sort of cosmic vacuum cleaners.

Just sucking in all the material gas and stars that stray clothes.

That's pre-imbada Natarajan,

an astrophysicist at Yale University

who focuses on black holes,

specifically how extremely large ones came to be.

And Priya says these supermassive black holes,

like the one in the center of our own Milky Way galaxy,

are more than just cosmic vacuum cleaners.

Because when black holes eat material immediately around them, they create this bright disc, like a glowing

donut. But... What is counterintuitive is that we do see very powerful jets of material

that are actually expelled from them as well.

Basically, black holes are really messy eaters,

so not all the dust and gas they eat, make it down the hatch.

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