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What turned up
From BBC Reith Lecture 2, 'Black holes ain't as black as they are painted' (2015/aired 2016); excerpted as the closing two sentences of the lecture passage.
Work
BBC Reith Lecture 2, 'Black Holes Ain't As Black As They Are Painted'
Occasion
2015 · BBC Radio 4 · Public lecture on black hole physics
Sources checked
en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 21 August 2026Sourced, Reith Lecture 2 (2015)
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