#2217 - Brian Cox

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All right, Brian Cox. Good to see you, sir.

Brian Cox (3:29)

Good to see you again.

Joe Rogan (3:30)

How's things in the world of the discovery of the universe?

Brian Cox (3:34)

Exciting.

Joe Rogan (3:35)

Yes, very.

Brian Cox (3:35)

I would say. I've been doing some work on Black Holes recently, which I hadn't started last time I saw you, actually. So I got interested in it.

And the amount of the progress that's been made in trying to understand how they work. And a question that was posed by Stephen Hawking a long time ago, really 1970s, early 1980s, which is what happens to stuff that falls in? The simplest question you could possibly ask.

Joe Rogan (4:03)

Right.

Brian Cox (4:03)

There's progress being made on that now, which I think is profound and exciting.

Joe Rogan (4:09)

How is the progress being made? Like, how do we study a black hole?

Brian Cox (4:14)

I mean, it's mainly theoretical, although we have now got photographs of them. So we have two photographs, which are radio telescope photographs.

Joe Rogan (4:23)

Right.

Brian Cox (4:24)

One of the one in the center of our galaxy, which is a little one, it's called Sagittarius A star.

It's a little supermassive black hole. So it's about six million times the mass of the sun, which makes it a little supermassive. And then there's another one, the first photo that was taken, it's a collaboration called Event Horizon. And they took a photo of one in the galaxy M87, 55 million light years away. That thing is around six billion times the mass of the sun. Imagine that, 6,000 million times more massive than our sun.