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Black Hole Apocalypse: What’s Inside a Black Hole? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

NOVA PBS Official | August 27, 2025



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Black holes are the most enigmatic and exotic objects in the universe. They’re also the most powerful, with gravity so strong it can trap light. And they’re destructive, swallowing entire planets, even giant stars. Anything that falls into them vanishes…gone forever. Now, astrophysicists are realizing that black holes may be essential to how our universe evolved—their influence possibly leading to life on Earth and, ultimately, us. In this two-hour special, astrophysicist and author Janna Levin takes viewers on a journey to the frontiers of black hole science. Along the way, we meet leading astronomers and physicists on the verge of finding new answers to provocative questions about these shadowy monsters: Where do they come from? What’s inside? What happens if you fall into one? And what can they tell us about the nature of space, time, and gravity?

Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:10:23 What Is A Black Hole?
00:18:45 How Does A Black Hole Form?
00:24:40 What Would Happen If You Traveled Into A Black Hole?
00:29:58 The First Detection of A Black Hole: Cygnus X-1
00:50:47 The Relationship of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies
01:12:21 How Do Black Holes Grow?
01:30:56 New Technologies Giving New View of Black Holes
01:50:02 Conclusion

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  6. @charmedtransformation9617

    August 27, 2025 at 11:03 pm

    I hope someone from PBS Nova see this comment:

    Ok so. Einstein MUST be incorrect about gravity. See that theory can work in reverse with “space curving earth”…

    maybe because of the minerals and fluids inside the earth and combination of earth and by understanding that space varies even though it appears the same that’s why apple and space station move freely…

    Also we DEFINITELY DO NOT move along the earth curve outside of earth’s atmosphere.

    Maybe space is having a chemical reaction to earth.

    I had a near death experience New Year’s Eve 2014.

    Key factors that challenge the theory:

    I stepped out of my living body in the ambulance below… without the chemical system of my body I automatically had to go up, I couldn’t stay on earth without the mass of the human body specifically because of the chemicals in it… that is what holds us in earth’s atmosphere it’s like bodies are connected to it but who we actually are, are not.

    Another important fact is “outside earth’s atmosphere” I and everyone I saw and heard above the atmosphere we’re completely healthy. And I looked down below inside the earth atmosphere where the EMT was having a silent meltdown on the side of the ambulance and this brought my attention to everything inside that atmosphere being high toxic trash 😅 compare to the health and clean air here…

    I guess I was in “a heaven” but not thee heaven because there were others above me they could have been the band around the Milky Way which was moving like a Manhattan sidewalk of traffic and gossip and laughter etc. I was not far from the earths ground maybe a block or a few blocks from the pavement because there was a hundred year old plantation pine not far beneath me and is this would have been horizontal instead up I would be at a location to look in the distance and see the scene like standing at the beginning of the block but still seeing what’s happening at the end…

    Ok to discover how far the toxicity went I looked into the earth trying to find the otherside and I’m not saying that this is what earth is but I’m telling you 100% that I never saw a painting of flat earth until I tried to find info about what I saw when I died😅

    That painting of flat earth where there’s a bubble earth water then a rock crust that gets thinner the further down you go that’s what I traveled

    Outside/Above that bubble the air is completely healthy and we are perfect! Everything inside/under that bubble is rotten bad and the bodies are connected to the atmosphere but not the grounds like dirt… we’re not meant to biodegrade in there just on top of it… honestly that could be the reason for growing toxicity in the earth bodies trapped in the dirt.

    Time did move slower outside the earths atmosphere because an EMT would not have time to have a meltdown when time is of the essence.

    I was erect and the time keeper that met me to assist me with my decision to stay above the earth or return to the ambulance were erect and not following the earths curve.

    I had shorter time that it likely felt outside my body before I began to shrink and mold into a white orb like everyone else except the time keeper that are shadows of human silhouettes like the black hole kinda they’re extremely black but you can see that they’re their own thing.

    I understood when I returned to earth why ppl love Van Gogh’s starry night because it’s so truthful. Those stars are ppl and they’re so close to earth and ppl… it’s like… a accurate painting of reality.

    So you see there’s no way for that gravity vortex to work with earth curving space but if you put the vortex upside down and on the top of earth it could still accomplish everything I experienced in Near Death the pressure could curve the earth and cause gravity it could make ppl that are full of water and fluids and chemical compounds walk erect… or seems like they’re erect but really they’re being sucked up into the air… but the fluids and the chemicals concentrated inside the human body suit is easier to keep closer to earths core because without the body we must float up until we’re out of the bubble and then we have free range… gravity is not a factor for us outside of the ‘highways’….

    You will not be as high as rockets…. Planes could fly above you but you will not be in earth.

    And yeah all cloudy white stuff you’re seeing in photos are people it’s us without human bodies and we’re in such concentrate, like there is so many of us they look like clouds and rings but they’re just individuals being friendly with each other… that’s what we do after this life fly around and watch earth like a TV basically

  44. @rannbow145

    August 27, 2025 at 11:03 pm

    Please don't laugh, but I think I need to watch this again. There's a lot to unpack, but I don't know why my ocd is spiking on this. The biggest mystery in this whole thing is, WTF is that necklace the narrator is wearing? It's not a fashion dig, ok. I genuinely can't listen to what she is saying with that thing on, and I don't know why. Like, I'm for real trying to geek out on this, but I can't. Like, what is it? I genuinely think it's for something, like the chain doesn't look like precise metal, and my GF says it's an S&M thing, but I feel like that's not what it is.

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