[Overtime Q&A] Things Falling Into Black Holes, Interstellar Medium, Beyond Science
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What happens to the stuff that falls into black holes? Do supergiants have sunspots? How can you do a gravitational slingshot from the Sun? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:50 Could we do a gravitational slingshot around the Sun? 03:10 Does everything that goes into a black hole get converted into dark matter? 03:33 How has my perception of the Universe changed as I learn more about it? 07:44 What is beyond science? 11:04 What do I think about Starship? 12:07 Is dark energy decreasing? 13:48 Does our gravity well distort our measurement of the Universe? 15:52 Is the movements of interstellar medium a risk to space travel? 16:43 Could dark matter be explained by black holes? 17:26 Is there enough mass in the Solar System to make a black hole? 18:22 Could you restart Venus's dynamo? 21:32 Do supergiants have sunspots? 22:18 What do I think about UAPs? 24:11 Why didn't the Moon have water? 25:59 If we can't see black holes, what would they look like? 27:22 How do they land on an asteroid? 28:32 What questions do I hate? 30:29 Should we stop teaching that gravity is a force 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/mvDCKJdvRWc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast
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