Discussed: What If Our Solar System Orbited a Black Hole? - with Pr. Johnson | Episode 19

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What do we really know about black holes? Are they even black? Are they even holes? And do they suck everything into them that comes close, like a huge cosmic vacuum cleaner? This begs the question, "What If our solar system orbited a black hole?" Peter and Richard welcome USC Physics professor Clifford Johnson to bet the bottom of it...or is there a bottom?

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Time codes:
00:00 What will you see in today’s episode?
01:35 Box of Awesome
03:30 Are you going bold?
05:30 Meet Pr. Johnson
05:45 What is a black hole?
07:20 Supermassive vs regular black holes
09:15 Can you get sucked into a black hole?
11:10 Could we actually orbit a black hole?
14:00 Where can you find Pr. Johnson?
15:00 Final thoughts

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