Video: Leonard Susskind | Why Black Holes are Astonishing

Black holes warp space and time, squeeze matter to a vanishing point, and trap light so that it cannot escape. Black holes, with masses millions or billions times that of our sun, sit at the center of galaxies. How can black holes perform such stupendous tricks, and what can we learn from them?

Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He received a BS in physics from City College of New York and a PhD from Cornell University.

Free access to Closer to Truth’s library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN/

Watch more interviews on black holes: https://bit.ly/2OjtSdY.

Running time: 13 minutes

Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to watch the video.