What If Our Solar System Orbited a Black Hole? - with Pr. Clifford Johnson

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What do we really know about black holes? Are they even black? Are they even holes? And do they suck everything into them that comes close, like a huge cosmic vacuum cleaner? This begs the question, "What If our solar system orbited a black hole?" Peter and Richard welcome USC Physics professor Clifford Johnson to bet the bottom of it...or is there a bottom?

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