Show Notes
What really happens when you fall into a black hole? We explore event horizons, spaghettification, what you’d see inside, possible gateways, and why future civilizations might deliberately build around these cosmic engines.
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Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:13 What a Black Hole Actually Is 10:04 Falling In: What You Actually Experience 18:00 What Might Be Inside… and Why We Can’t Know 22:10 Why You’d Fly Toward a Black Hole 24:51 Why Civilizations Would Build Around Them 27:37 Outside Reality 28:30 Civilizations Beneath the Horizon—and Beyond It See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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