An Astronomer Explains Black Holes at 5 Levels of Difficulty

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An Astronomer Explains Black Holes at 5 Levels of Difficulty
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We found a NASA scientist whose expertise is the structure of the universe and asked him to explain black holes to us at 5 different levels of complexity. (From 2019)

, if you were ever so fortunate as to observe one up close: a gyre of oddly lit matter that wraps around a spherical split in spacetime, thanks to the beam-bending effects of gravitational lensing .

Maybe you already know all of these things. For all I know, you’re the champ of black hole trivia. But at some point, your knowledge probably peters out and collapses in on itself like a … like a … well, like a something. That simile got away from me. But! Fortunately! Wherever and whenever your command of the subject craps out, Varoujan Gorjian will be there to pick up where you left off.

A research astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Grojian specializes in—and I’d just like to pause here to emphasize that this is

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