Brian Cox

Whereas if you think about the thing that I throw in, if I throw this notepad into the thing, then that goes to the singularity. It's got nothing to do, the radiation's got nothing to do with this thing. This thing is not set on fire or something like that. It's gone to the end of time and just whatever's happened to it has happened to it.

Whereas if you think about the thing that I throw in, if I throw this notepad into the thing, then that goes to the singularity. It's got nothing to do, the radiation's got nothing to do with this thing. This thing is not set on fire or something like that. It's gone to the end of time and just whatever's happened to it has happened to it.

Whereas if you think about the thing that I throw in, if I throw this notepad into the thing, then that goes to the singularity. It's got nothing to do, the radiation's got nothing to do with this thing. This thing is not set on fire or something like that. It's gone to the end of time and just whatever's happened to it has happened to it.

So this radiation has got nothing to do with having anything that falls in at first sight, at least. And so that was the paradox. It's called the black hole information paradox. One way to put it is the laws of nature that we use to calculate what happens tell us that information is never destroyed. And when you calculate what happens, it tells us that information is destroyed.

So this radiation has got nothing to do with having anything that falls in at first sight, at least. And so that was the paradox. It's called the black hole information paradox. One way to put it is the laws of nature that we use to calculate what happens tell us that information is never destroyed. And when you calculate what happens, it tells us that information is destroyed.

So this radiation has got nothing to do with having anything that falls in at first sight, at least. And so that was the paradox. It's called the black hole information paradox. One way to put it is the laws of nature that we use to calculate what happens tell us that information is never destroyed. And when you calculate what happens, it tells us that information is destroyed.

So that's why everyone got interested in it in the 80s, because it's interesting.

So that's why everyone got interested in it in the 80s, because it's interesting.

So that's why everyone got interested in it in the 80s, because it's interesting.

Yeah, something like that. There's occasionally a galaxy. I think one was discovered where we said maybe we can't see evidence of a black hole.

Yeah, something like that. There's occasionally a galaxy. I think one was discovered where we said maybe we can't see evidence of a black hole.

Yeah, something like that. There's occasionally a galaxy. I think one was discovered where we said maybe we can't see evidence of a black hole.

Well... So I think I'm right in saying we don't fully understand why all galaxies, as you said, maybe there's an exception, but all galaxies have a black hole, a supermassive black hole in the center. It's obviously got something to do with the way they form. And one of the purposes, by the way, of the James Webb Space Telescope is to try to look at the formation of the first galaxies.

Well... So I think I'm right in saying we don't fully understand why all galaxies, as you said, maybe there's an exception, but all galaxies have a black hole, a supermassive black hole in the center. It's obviously got something to do with the way they form. And one of the purposes, by the way, of the James Webb Space Telescope is to try to look at the formation of the first galaxies.

Well... So I think I'm right in saying we don't fully understand why all galaxies, as you said, maybe there's an exception, but all galaxies have a black hole, a supermassive black hole in the center. It's obviously got something to do with the way they form. And one of the purposes, by the way, of the James Webb Space Telescope is to try to look at the formation of the first galaxies.

So that's one of the reasons that telescope is up there. So it's cutting-edge research. We're trying to understand how the galaxies form. But clearly, you're right, that it has something to do with the way the galaxies form in the early universe. And it's pulling in stars. Well, they... They do pull in material. Right. But if you've got stuff orbiting around them, it stays orbiting around it. Oh.

So that's one of the reasons that telescope is up there. So it's cutting-edge research. We're trying to understand how the galaxies form. But clearly, you're right, that it has something to do with the way the galaxies form in the early universe. And it's pulling in stars. Well, they... They do pull in material. Right. But if you've got stuff orbiting around them, it stays orbiting around it. Oh.

So that's one of the reasons that telescope is up there. So it's cutting-edge research. We're trying to understand how the galaxies form. But clearly, you're right, that it has something to do with the way the galaxies form in the early universe. And it's pulling in stars. Well, they... They do pull in material. Right. But if you've got stuff orbiting around them, it stays orbiting around it. Oh.

So the way we first detected the one in the Milky Way, because that image is very new that we have of it, is the stars orbiting it very close to it. They call the S stars that whiz around in these orbits very close to the black hole.

So the way we first detected the one in the Milky Way, because that image is very new that we have of it, is the stars orbiting it very close to it. They call the S stars that whiz around in these orbits very close to the black hole.