The Updated Physics of Black Holes with Steve Balbus & Andrew Mummery

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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What’s happening just outside a black hole? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Gary O’Reilly travel to Oxford University to explore the mysterious universe of black holes, their accretion disks, and the impact they have on the world around them with astrophysicist Steve Balbus and theoretical physicist Andy Mummery.

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0:00.0	he's in a different gravitational field from the ones who went down to the planet,
0:04.0	which was near the black hole.
0:05.6	They lived 15 minutes or something,
0:07.8	and the guy up there went 10 years or something.
0:10.5	I think they didn't have more.
0:12.0	But yeah, crazy ratio of time.
0:14.0	Time dilation.
0:15.0	Crazy time dilation.
0:17.0	So I was going to try to calculate
0:20.0	how close that orbit had to be.
0:22.0	And then I said, no, I'm not going to wait until I get somebody else to do this.
0:24.7	It sounds like you're the guy for that.
0:28.1	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:30.8	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:35.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:39.0	Gary, we're in the UK now.
0:43.6	Good. This is your place.
0:45.6	It is.
0:46.6	I'm here as your interpreter.
0:47.6	Oh, we're in the town of Oxford.
0:50.6	Is it city or town?
0:52.2	Oh, I don't know.
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