Curated Video
The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic dance in this NASA visualization. The movie traces how the black holes distort and redirect light emanating from the maelstrom of hot gas – called an...
MinutePhysics
How We Know Black Holes Exist
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video. This video is about the astronomical amount of astronomical evidence for black holes, ranging from x-ray binaries with...
MinutePhysics
Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarfs (Collab. w/ MinuteEarth)
This video is about the differences between the corpses or final degenerate dense star forms that dead stars take: black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs. The main distinguishing features between them are the mass cutoffs...
MinutePhysics
The Black Hole Tipping Point
This video is about the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole, (its "event horizon"), and how much mass and density is required to reach the point of no return where an object like a star, neutron star, red giant, etc will collapse into a...
Curated Video
A Runaway Supermassive Black Hole
Black holes are a wondrous force of the universe! Hank explains how we found a supermassive rogue black hole & how DNA behaves in space!
MinutePhysics
The Unreasonable Efficiency of Black Holes
This video is about how efficient various reactions are at converting mass to energy (as we know from the Einstein mass-energy equivalence of E=mc^2). Antimatter is very efficient but it is not naturally-occurring. Chemical reactions...
Science360
Innovation Nation - Black Holes
Steve Eikenberry is on the hunt for black holes, investigating why there seem to be super massive black holes at the center of most, if not all galaxies, and what powers them. See how he does it in this episode of Innovation Nation with...
Science360
How the Event Horizon Telescope took first ever image of a black hole
Brief oveview of the Event Horizon telescope with a simple explanation of how the EHT works and the black hole image it captured. Includes a soundbite with the National Science Foundation director and the Event Horizon Telescope director.
Science360
How do you find a black hole?
How do you find a black hole? Dr. Andrea Ghez answers your question in this special “Mysteries of the Cosmos” edition of Ask a Scientist.
Science360
What is a black hole?
What is a black hole? Hans Krimm, an observational astronomer at the National Science Foundation, answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."
Science360
Black holes and coffee - Scientists & Engineers on Sofas (and other furnishings)
Over a cup of coffee, astrophysicist Dan Evans chats about black holes, his research and what’s on the horizon. According to Dan, black holes are probably the simplest objects in the universe. They only consist of three basic parameters:...
Science360
Black Holes: Peering Into the Heart of Darkness - Science Nation
Astronomer Steve Eikenberry at the University of Florida is on the hunt for black holes. Using a custom built camera affixed to the Gemini South telescope in Chile, he is honing in on the supermassive black hole at the center of our...
Science360
Black Hole Researchers Katie Bouman and Colin Lonsdale Answer Your Questions
On April 10, a team of international scientists from Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the first ever image of a black hole at the center of the M87* galaxy. We invited computer scientist Dr. Katie Bouman and astronomer Dr. Colin...
Science360
What do we know about black holes?
What do we know about black holes? Joe Pesce, a National Science Foundation astrophysicist, answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."
Science360
NSF media briefing - The Event Horizon Telescope, a year after the black hole image
Panelists Sheperd S. Doeleman, founding director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which produced the first image of a black hole, and Michael Johnson, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, answer questions...
Science360
Explained: First ever observed black hole
If you could fly next to the supermassive black hole M87*, this is what you would see. Full Text: 55-million light years from Earth, at the heart of galaxy Messier 87 lies a monster black hole. Weighing in at 6.5 billion times the mass...
Science360
Animation of first ever observed black hole (no audio)
If you could fly next to the supermassive black hole M87*, this is what you would see. Much more on exploring black holes at: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/blackholes/index.jsp
Curated Video
Updates on the Hunt for Dark Matter - SciShow Space News
The hunt for dark matter is still on, and the candidates for it could be primordial black holes as massive as Earth, or axions, as tiny as the smallest subatomic particles in existence!
Big Think
Black hole death: How extreme tidal forces turn humans into spaghetti | Michelle Thaller
- Like ocean tides caused by gravity, a nearby black hole would create a 'tide' inside your body, which is mostly water. - As your body drew nearer to the black hole, your head would be stretched away from your feet. - Scientists call...
World Science Festival
How Do You Observe a Black Hole?
Black holes may hold the key to understanding the most fundamental truths of the universe, but how do you see something that’s, well, black? Astronomers think they have the answer. Thanks to a global array of radio telescopes that turn...
Gresham College
Black Holes - Professor Joseph Silk
Supermassive black holes lurk in the very centres of galaxies. The Milky Way has a central black hole of four million solar masses. Today it is quiescent. But we have reason to believe that millions of years ago it was active....
World Science Festival
Black Holes and Neutron Stars: A Merger in Space
The first detection of colliding black holes rocked the scientific world, establishing that gravitational waves are real and that we are able to measure them. More recently, scientists have achieved the first detection of colliding...
World Science Festival
How Do You Detect a Black Hole? LIGO and the Measurement of Gravitational Waves
Until 2015, scientists could only infer the existence of theoretical black holes. But everything changed when the LIGO experiment detected gravitational waves from the collision of two binary black holes 1.3 billion light-years from...
World Science Festival
WSU Master Class: Illuminating Black Holes with Veronika Hubeny
Theoretical physicist Veronika Hubeny explores the fundamental nature of spacetime using the gauge/gravity duality in order to develop a deeper understanding of black holes and their mysterious links to quantum information theory. This...