Do Events Inside Black Holes Happen?

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Teaches spacetime diagrams and causal structure properly instead of relying on metaphors.

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Explores whether events inside a black hole's horizon can be said to 'happen' from an outside observer's perspective, using Penrose diagrams.

Video by PBS Space Time, played through YouTube's embedded player.

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