Dissolving an Event Horizon

June 30, 2020
17 min
Season 2020 - Episode 23: Dissolving an Event Horizon

Season 2020 - Episode 23: Dissolving an Event Horizon

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Overview

Black hole singularities break physics - fortunately, the universe seems to conspire to protect itself from their causality-destroying madness. At least, so says the cosmic censorship hypothesis. Only problem is many physicists think it might be wrong, and that naked singularities may exist after all.

Episode Information

TV Show

PBS Space Time

Season

Season 2020

Episode Number

23

Air Date

June 30, 2020

Runtime

17 minutes