PBS Space Time: How To Capture Black Holes

15mAired 2020-01-13

Black holes are awesome - but how about black holes being captured by the screaming vortex of a quasar, where they merge and grow like some monstrous version of a solar system. This insane hypothesis is getting closer to reality, according to the papers in today’s space time journal club.

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PBS Space Time: How To Capture Black Holes

How To Detect a Neutrino

How To Capture Black Holes

Solutions to the Three Body Problem

Hacking the Nature of Reality

Are there Infinite Versions of You?

Are Axions Dark Matter?

Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?

How Decoherence Splits The Quantum Multiverse

Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?

How Do Quantum States Manifest In The Classical World?

How Black Holes Spin Space Time

What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?

How We Know The Earth Is Ancient

Was the Milky Way a Quasar?

Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?

How We Know The Universe is Ancient

How Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity

Mapping the Multiverse

Does Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?

Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?

What Happens After the Universe Ends?

Building Black Holes in a Lab

Dissolving an Event Horizon

Does Antimatter Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing?

The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars

How Stars Destroy Each Other

Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model?

How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?

The Truth About Beauty in Physics

Could Life Evolve Inside Stars?

Solving Quantum Cryptography

Venus May Have Life!

Do the Past and Future Exist?

Is The Future Predetermined By Quantum Mechanics?

How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time

Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces

Can Free Will be Saved in a Deterministic Universe?

The Arrow of Time and How to Reverse It

Why Do You Remember The Past But Not The Future?

The Supernovas At The End of The Universe

Navigating with Quantum Entanglement