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Aug 2024
46m 19s

The Updated Physics of Black Holes with ...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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What’s happening just outside a black hole? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Gary O’Reilly travel to Oxford University to explore the mysterious universe of black holes, their accretion disks, and the impact they have on the world around them with astrophysicist Steve Balbus and theoretical physicist Andy Mummery. 
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