Physicist: Black Holes Are Where God Divides by Zero (Lecture 1 of 6)
*What is a black hole, really?*
A physicist explains why a black hole is the place "where God divides by zero" — where the laws of physics break down, time becomes space, and your atoms get spaghettified. And the strangest part: black holes were predicted 250 years before anyone observed one.
This is Lecture 1 of 6 in the Black Holes & Relativity series, originally produced for Peterson Academy.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Where God divides by zero
0:33 The most magical objects in the universe
2:09 A journey to the edge of time
3:40 What is a black hole?
5:08 Jealousy, racism, and the human story of science
6:43 Predicted before they were ever observed
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