A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. Shep doeleman, director of the event horizon telescope, describes them as the most mysterious objects. Listen in as 11 top physicists and astronomers take on the challenge of describing the strangest entities in the universe. People regard black holes as troubling, because they are the enemy you cannot defeat. Because no light can get out, people cant see black holes.
Black holes are areas of space with a gravity field so strong that light cannot escape them. Educational games and videos from curious george, wild kratts and other pbs kids shows. In black hole apocalypse, nova investigates recent surprising discoveries about black holes that have raised deep questions and brought astrophysics to a major. Almost a century after his death, indian maths genius srinivasa ramanujans cryptic deathbed theory has been proven correct and scientists say it could explain the behaviour of black holes. We propose a new attempt to explore constituents of black holes according to the type of interaction, the researchers explained, and this method can also be regarded as a. And theyre destructive, swallowing entire planets, even giant stars. Wormholes pass th e information to a white hole, and. Black hole apocalypse premieres on pbs tonight space. Exploring the microscopic structure of black holes from.
Listen in as 11 top physicists and astronomers take on the challenge of describing the strangest. In fact every black hole in the universe, no matter how it formed or what happened to it afterwards, can be perfectly described with only three properties. Draw a line to match each vocabulary term with its definition. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. But you can at least watch levin take a virtual journey to the inside of a black hole in black hole apocalypse. Understanding the role black holes play in the universe is crucial to mans advancement as a race. It was john archibald wheeler who dubbed these strange objects \ black holes. Flash in this audio feature, hear 11 astrophysicists explain what a black hole really is.
The relationship between black holes and quantum bridges. Nova black hole apocalypse season 45 episode 1 pbs. Theyre also the most powerful, with gravity so strong it can trap light. Ramanujans formula can explain behaviour of black holes.
Weve moved from quantum field theory to black hole thermodynamics to string theory. Pdf notes on understanding the holographic universe a. Mysteries of deep space, exploding stars and black holes, pbs home video, turner home. Theyre also the most powerful, with gravity so strong it can actually trap light. Indeed, also light would not emerge out of the central region of these solutions. Its no different than the guy in the black cloak with the scytheits death triumphant. Anticipated but never before seen, the existence of tens of thousands of these dark objects at the galactic center could have far. For a black hole, escape velocity is greater than the speed of light 3x108 ms. Black holes are the most enigmatic and exotic objects in the universe. Therefore even photons that have no mass could not escape the gravitational pull of a black hole.
Pbs p100 facilities standards for the public buildings service. But now, astrophysicists are realizing that black holes may be essential to understanding how our universe. Nova monster of the milky way black holes explained pbs. These resources help educators explore black holes and gravity in detail with. General relativity, from curved space to black holes and big bang cosmology, holds great fascination.
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