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Do Events Inside Black Holes Happen?

PBS Space Time · 3.2M views · 2015-08-19 · 14:25

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Overview

A PBS Space Time episode asking what black holes really are and whether events can happen inside them. It covers event horizons, time dilation and common misconceptions about black holes.

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HN commenters recommend it as an accessible but deep explanation of black holes that corrects popular misconceptions.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2016–2021

Topics

Cosmology & astrophysics
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black holesevent horizontime dilationgeneral relativitypbs space time

What people said

pwaai · 2018-02 · Strong recommendation

> [VIDEO] This is mind blowing...shatters my misconception of blackholes....is there any more books on this?

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czbond · 2019-01 · Recommendation

PBS Spacetime is a great series, and delves deep enough for interested layman as well as practitioners to be interested. I find the videos really good. Here is a link to one of many on black holes. [VIDEO]

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drewrv · 2018-10 · Recommendation

The youtube channel PBS Spacetime has some really great videos about how black holes work, I would start with this one: [VIDEO]

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