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From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"

From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"

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As a treat to our listeners, we are posting a full episode of Sidedoor, a podcast that explores the treasures in the Smithsonian's vaults. Subscribe to Sidedoor from Smithsonian wherever you listen to podcasts!


Black holes could unlock the mysteries of creation and live at the heart of nearly every galaxy. But these invisible balls of extremely dense matter have never been fully understood, especially when they were only a theory. We travel through a cosmic wormhole back to the 1930s to learn how the first astrophysicist to successfully theorize a black hole, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, was ridiculed and rejected by his scientific community.

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From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"

From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine