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Cosmic Queries – Death of a Black Hole

14 Oct 2025

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0.031 - 7.562 Neil deGrasse Tyson

Chuck, that was a brilliant set of questions. Yes, it was. Some bordered on the philosophical. Yep. Even the spiritual, maybe.

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7.582 - 15.813 Chuck Nice

Yep, yep. No, I was feeling it. And I wrote them all. I'm taking credit for every question. You were lying. I am.

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15.853 - 18.797 Neil deGrasse Tyson

You did pretty good with pronouncing people's names this round.

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19.338 - 21.381 Chuck Nice

I would give myself a C+.

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21.985 - 52.95 Neil deGrasse Tyson

He's still working it. Coming up, Cosmic Queries, Grab Bag Edition on StarTalk. Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. StarTalk begins right now. This is Star Talk. Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist. We got Cosmic Queries grab bag today. Chuck. Hey, what's happening?

52.97 - 60.664 Chuck Nice

Yeah, we got a grab bag. You grabbed inside the bag? I did. Sometimes they let you do that.

61.205 - 62.067 Unknown

Chuck, stop it.

63.43 - 90.755 Chuck Nice

So let's go right in. Yeah, we might as well jump right into it. This is Roger McVeigh, who says, hello, Dr. Tyson. Lord, nice. Roger from Wisconsin here, currently in Surin, Thailand. Wow. Way to go, Roger. Good food in Thailand. He says, why is there not a lunar eclipse every month? Is it just the distance or the wobble or something else?

90.875 - 115.895 Neil deGrasse Tyson

Great question. That's an observant question. Yeah. Very good. Very good. So if you look at the path the sun takes in the sky throughout the year. Right. Okay. So the sun actually moves against the background stars. You can't see the stars, but you can kind of see them at twilight, like before sunrise, but it's not so bright that you can't see the stars. Look at the stars that are there.

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