Neil DeGrasse Tyson - Death By Black Hole

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Celebrity astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson describes the (hypothetical) experience of death by falling into a black hole.

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandries."

Whether discussing the universe's origins as host of NOVA's "scienceNOW" or asserting that Pluto is a not a planet on "The Colbert Report," astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson translates the universe's complexities for a broad audience.

Known as the great explainer of all things cosmic, Tyson first became known in the astronomy community by lecturing on the subject at the age of fifteen. He is currently the director of New York's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, where he also teaches. Tyson has written seven popular books including the bestselling Death by Black Hole and the memoir The Sky Is Not The Limit.

His professional research explores star formation, dwarf galaxies, exploding stars, and the structure of the Milky Way, topics which he writes about in his long running "Universe" column in Natural History magazine. Tyson's varied honors include the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal and People Magazine's 2000 "Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive" - City Arts and Lectures

Ryan Wyatt is a science visualizer for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. A longtime planetarian, he is actively involved in promoting fulldome video technology within the planetarium community. He manages the Fulldome Mailing List and also maintain web pages related to standards development for fulldome video. His work at the Museum relates strongly to the Hayden Planetarium's Digital Universe dataset, with an emphasis on creating content for the planetarium "space shows," including Cosmic Collisions and The Search for Life.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: March 12, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Author: ForaTv

Length: 00:05:34
Rating: 4.92
Views: 21624

Tags: gravity gravitational pull holes space time universe astronomy stars earth planet nasa science light matter mass foratv

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Video Comments:
makeshersickX (November 14, 2008 at 1:15 pm)
this sucks, even if we try living long ,Black holes will kill everything. If we were aliens, wed travel away from the galaxy in seconds...and live somewhere else safer!!
micp4130 (November 17, 2008 at 1:54 pm)
well... only if the aliens had the technology to do that... why is it that everyone assume that aliens got a better technology... it's very likely that we'll discover and visit alien inhabited planets before aliens will visit us...
5PhiV (November 13, 2008 at 9:21 pm)
Tyson is an excellent raconteur, like a new Feynman.
nystagmus (November 27, 2008 at 11:24 am)
i agree
goldenToothpick (November 2, 2008 at 7:42 am)
very compelling, very interesting, a joy to listen to
th3chickenator (October 31, 2008 at 7:33 pm)
this guy was at my school today
intindse (October 27, 2008 at 2:14 am)
lol i already knew that but he said it funnier
aeren944 (October 18, 2008 at 8:22 am)
I'm such a dork, but I think he's an awesome speaker, and a very creative astronimer. I want to meet him someday.
elegantmoose (October 17, 2008 at 11:26 pm)
Why does it have to matter to you?
xBreakxDownx88 (October 14, 2008 at 12:13 pm)
fool your an idiot you don't know who i like neil is a well respected man by myself and many other people around the world reply to me again and your just more of an idiot