THE VIDEO SHELF · black hole physics
How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole | Space Time
A PBS Space Time episode explaining how space and time swap roles inside a black hole's event horizon. It is part of the channel's black hole series.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as the cleanest visual explanation of time and space switching roles past the horizon, and a gateway to the channel's black hole videos.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- PBS Space Time
- Topic
- black hole physics
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This is from PBS Spacetime series [1]. A fantastic channel, and they did a number of videos on black holes. [1] [VIDEO]
joemag on Hacker News · 2018-12
In Why Black Hole Interiors Grow Almost Forever> ...at the same moment. As an aside, this is a rather funny phrase to be using about objects so massive that time and space actually switch roles inside their event horizons compared to the normal universe. I don't feel like I can explain it …
pmiller2 on Hacker News · 2020-07
In Astronomers claim to have seen the merger of two black holes within a third[LINK] I hope it helps. I think this is the cleanest explanation with actual visual representation. Edit: Sorry this one is even better. How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole | Space Time [VIDEO]
me_me_me on Hacker News · 2020-10
In The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
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