Ep. 177 Black Holes Pt 2: Quasi-Stars and Quasars

Today's episode is our second and final episode on Black Holes! We cover some exotic black hole concepts, like whether they are a source of dark energy, what a white hole is, and whether black holes are fuzzy or not!

References:

• https://www.science.org/content/article/dark-energy-supermassive-black-holes-physicists-spar-over-radical-idea
• https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy
• https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acac2e
• https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acb704
• https://physicsworld.com/a/new-theory-links-supermassive-black-holes-and-dark-energy/
• https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/409/3/1022/1097516
• https://esahubble.org/wordbank/quasar/https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/white-holes-exist/
• https://www.space.com/white-holes.html
• https://astronomy.com/news/2022/02/fuzzballs-might-be-the-answer-to-a-decades-old-paradox-about-black-holes

• https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/s110