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Dissolving an Event Horizon

PBS Space Time · Season 2020 · Episode 23
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.

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Season
2020
Episode
23
Air Date
30/Jun/2020
Air Time
12:00
Runtime
17 min

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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.

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