Jack Antonoff Asks Why Don’t Black Holes Eat Everything

Did you know that black holes eat a lot, but not necessarily everything? In the latest Sing for Science podcast episode, Jack Antonoff and MIT’s David Kaiser discuss the physics of this mysterious celestial phenomenon. When something is launched directly at a black hole, it will be sucked inside. However, if its approach is from the side, it will get trapped in an orbit that brings it close to the black hole without fully going inside. This orbiting matter will speed up and emit light, creating the ring of light we see outside of a black hole. The closest black hole we’ve observed is at the center of our own galaxy, but there’s really no way to know whether we’re inside of a black hole right now!
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[@bandols]

Everyone be sure to appreciate the Starmaster behind him created by Zeiss. It is often combined with a digital system but was truly frontier engineering to imitate the night sky in a planetarium. They are amazing to see in person.

[@wayside9493]

This questions is itchy in my brain now- what lead you to (assumedly) just have that information in your brain and readily available. It's super cool! It just seems like very obscure info and I'm curious.

[@museumofscience]

A clear sign we filmed this in our Planetarium!

[@KarenMartinCAAZ]

If someone had explained gravitational and electromagnetic properties by making analogies to fluid dynamics, I think we'd have a better grasp of what these forces look like and how they behave.

[@russellhoelscher4424]

It is only the gravity of the mass that was previously there just like any large star if that is the Mass

[@xd-qg5dz]

Yes just condensed into an infinitely small point it's just that you can get so much closer in towards that crushing pull.

[@BohdanTrotsenko]

We might be
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[@larahosoi5323]

how am I supposed to sleep now...?😳