Inside black holes

Chapter 1

The anatomy of a black hole

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Chapter 2

The four cosmic families

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Chapter 3

Extreme physics and spaghettification

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Chapter 4

Photographing the invisible

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YOUR GOAL

Master of Inside black holes

Ch 3 · Extreme physics and spaghettification

hue I never realized black holes grow by shredding stars and eating each other.

hue Black holes colliding actually make a weird chirp like neutron stars do.

hue Sagittarius A* Spaghettification

Step to the edge where the gravity bends, Stretched like a thread as the universe ends.

hue The slow leak of energy

The slow leak of energy

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Fun Fact

Slow evaporation: A stellar black hole takes about 10 to the power of 67 years to completely evaporate through Hawking radiation.

When time stands still

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Glossary

spaghettification (noun)
The stretching of an object into a long, thin shape by extreme gravitational forces. Stephen Hawking popularized the term in 1988 to describe an astronaut falling into a black hole.

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How would time appear to pass for someone watching you approach a black hole?

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Would you visit a time-dilating black hole?

Singularity Spaghetti

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hue When time stands still

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If you fell into a black hole, how would your own watch seem to tick to you?

hue The ultimate cosmic noodle machine

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What happens to a black hole at the very end of its incredibly long evaporation process?

hue The final destination of matter

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What is the slow emission of quantum particles from a black hole called?

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What is the playful scientific term for the stretching of an object falling into a black hole?

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What physical force causes the stretching effect known as spaghettification?

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Who discovered that black holes can slowly evaporate by emitting radiation?