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What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?
Normal maps are useless inside black holes. At the event horizon - the ultimate point of no return as you approach a black hole - time and space themselves change their character. We need new coordinate systems to trace paths into the...
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NASA | Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes
According to Einstein, whenever massive objects interact, they produce gravitational waves -- distortions in the very fabric of space and time -- that ripple outward across the universe at the speed of light. While astronomers have found...
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...
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NASA | Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of a Black Hole's Jet
Centaurus A is a giant elliptical active galaxy 12 million light years away. Radio and X-ray images reveal features associated with jets emanating from near the galaxy's central supermassive black hole, which has a mass of 55 million...
Curated Video
NASA in Silicon Valley: SOFIA Finds Cool Dust Around Energetic Active Black Holes: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on June 13, 2017.
Curated Video
Neutron Star, Meet Black Hole
Scientists have observed a collision of two of the universe's most extreme objects. And a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa makes an important step forward.
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...
Seeker
We FINALLY Know What a Black Hole Looks Like
The Event Horizon Telescope project has been working relentlessly to composite the first black hole photo the world has seen and it will change how we look at physics moving forward. Thumbnail Credit (Background Image): Hotaka Shiokawa /...
World Science Festival
Black Holes: Seeing the Unseeable
#briangreene #blackhole #eventhorizontelescope A century after Einstein's mathematics suggested the possibility of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is finally observing them. The project's latest achievement is the first...
World Science Festival
The Discovery of Black Holes
Today, mathematics is predicting the reality that there are extra dimensions beyond the three that humans can see, the existence of additional universes outside of the one that Earth inhabits, and even the possibility that the world is...
Curated Video
NASA | Blazar Bonanza
A long time ago in a galaxy half the universe away, a flood of high-energy gamma rays began its journey to Earth. When they arrived in April, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope caught the outburst, which helped two ground-based...
NASA
LISA Pathfinder’s Stunning Success
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, has successfully tested a key technology needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting gravitational waves. These tiny ripples in...
Curated Video
Gravity Assist: A New Set of X-Ray Eyes is Launching, with Martin Weisskopf
NASA is about to launch a new spacecraft to look at the universe in X-ray light. The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, IXPE, will look at extreme objects such as black holes, neutron stars, and supernovae, asking fundamental questions...
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NASA | GLASTcast | Episode 2: What are Gamma Rays?
NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany,...
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NASA | GLASTcast | Episode 1: What is GLAST?
NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany,...
Packt
ChatGPT Voice-Powered Chatbot Build with React and FastAPI - What We Are Building - Introduction and Resources
In this video, we will dive into more detail about the project we will be building. You will get an overview of the chatbot application we will be creating with ChatGPT and Eleven Labs AI. We will discuss the various features and...
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 58, SOFIA Airborne Observatory Small Steps, Giant Leaps
SOFIA Project Scientist Naseem Rangwala discusses the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
World Science Festival
A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
What we touch. What we smell. What we feel. They’re all part of our reality. But what if life as we know it reflects only one side of the full story? Some of the world’s leading physicists think that this may be the case. They believe...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Avi Loeb - Teachers Make a Difference - John Bahcall
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Avi Loeb - Extraterrestrial:The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project...
The Royal Institution
Q&A - Cosmology: Galileo to Gravitational Waves
Why is there a release of energy rather than just a deformation of spacetime when black holes collide? Does the Universe have a finite lifespan? Do gravitational waves take time to travel? Hiranya Peiris answers questions from the...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Gravitational Waves Detected
LIGO sensors picked up tiny ripples in space-time caused by a black hole merger that took place 1.3 billion years ago. It was the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, one century after they were predicted by Einstein’s theory of...
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NASA | MMS Mission Overview
Senior Project Scientist Tom Moore outlines the three instrument suites onboard the four MMS spacecraft. On March 12, 2015, NASA plans to launch the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission. MMS consists of four identical spacecraft...
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Build Your Own Fermi Satellite
Building paper models of spacecraft is a fun, interactive way to learn more about NASA's missions. Watch this video to see how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope paper model comes together, then try making your own. (If you like this...