In what year did physicist Stephen Hawking publish his revolutionary
Chapter 1

When looking at the stars was a crime

Chapter 2

The invisible forces shaping everything

Chapter 3

Mysterious structures in the deep dark

Chapter 4

Where the laws of physics break down

Ch 4 · Where the laws of physics break down
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Karl Schwarzschild and the point of no return

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The Event Horizon Telescope's historic photo

007skaty Katie Bouman's team imaged a supermassive black hole 55 million light-years away

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Hawking radiation and evaporating black holes
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007skaty Swipe escaping particles to discover how Hawking radiation makes black holes evaporate.

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Spaghettification: If you fell into a black hole, the extreme gravitational difference between your head and feet would stretch your body into a long, thin noodle shape.

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Glossary
singularity (noun)
A point in spacetime at which gravitational forces cause matter to have infinite density and infinite curvature. In 1965, Roger Penrose mathematically proved that collapsing stars inevitably form these infinitely dense points.

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Where do you think things go when they enter a black hole?

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Under what extreme conditions did Karl Schwarzschild calculate his famous black hole equations?

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In what year did German physicist Karl Schwarzschild mathematically prove the existence of a black hole's event horizon?

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How did the Event Horizon Telescope team manage to create an image of a black hole millions of light-years away?

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What is the designation of the distant galaxy where the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first-ever image of a black hole in 2019?

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In what year did physicist Stephen Hawking publish his revolutionary theory that black holes emit radiation and can eventually evaporate?

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According to Hawking's theory, what happens to a black hole as it emits radiation over trillions of years?

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Which fundamental law of quantum mechanics is directly contradicted if information entering a black hole is permanently destroyed?

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What unified field of physics are scientists trying to develop to finally resolve the black hole information paradox?

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