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The Updated Physics of Black Holes with Steve Balbus & Andrew Mummery
Season 15 · Episode 46

The Updated Physics of Black Holes with Steve Balbus & Andrew Mummery

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.

StarTalk Radio · Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gary O'Reilly, Steve Balbus, Andy Mummery

August 13, 202446m 19s

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Show Notes

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, magnetic fields, and the impact they have on the world around them with astrophysicist Steve Balbus and theoretical physicist Andy Mummery.

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