What are Black Holes? - Sixty Symbols
First of several videos from our Black Hole interviews. Featuring Omar Almaini, Ed Copeland, Tony Padilla, Meghan Gray and Mike Merrifield from the University of Nottingham. Playlist (more...
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Sometimes people ask me how do I feel about black holes, whether I find them scary or intimidating Well they, they are a bit, but they can be cuddly too These are two cuddly toy black holes that I got as a present for my sister-in-law. I just I just like them They're just little cuddly. There's a little baby one, and there's a slightly bigger, you know, mummy black hole, if you like Oh, well, a black hole is a [um] region of space in which light can't escape from Material comes together under the force of gravity tries to fight that [uh] if you get too much material you can't overcome that Force and eventually mathematics and the laws of physics take us into this strange regime. Well, it's an object which which forms when a star dies....
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Sometimes people ask me how do I feel about black holes, whether I find them scary or intimidating Well they, they are a bit, but they can be cuddly too These are two cuddly toy black holes that I got as a present for my sister-in-law. I just I just like them They're just little cuddly. There's a little baby one, and there's a slightly bigger, you know, mummy black hole, if you like Oh, well, a black hole is a [um] region of space in which light can't escape from Material comes together under the force of gravity tries to fight that [uh] if you get too much material you can't overcome that Force and eventually mathematics and the laws of physics take us into this strange regime. Well, it's an object which which forms when a star dies....
