The Unreasonable Efficiency of Black Holes
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 88% confidenceQuantitative and accurate astrophysics in a compact package.
What you'll learn
Explains how black holes can convert mass to energy more efficiently than fusion via accretion and the Penrose process.
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Go deeper
- Black Holes and Time Warps, Kip ThorneKip Thorne's popular history of black holes and relativity
- Spacetime and Geometry, Sean CarrollSean Carroll's standard textbook on general relativity
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