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The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy: Don't Panic!

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space explores the supermassive black hole spinning at the center of our galaxy, and how we've all learned to live with it in harmony.
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Instructional Video5:18
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That’s Not a Black Hole, It’s a Vampire

12th - Higher Ed
What was once thought to be a black hole might in fact be a star that feeds on its own kind!
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Instructional Video3:50
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An Impossible Black Hole, and Finally Meeting Ceres

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space takes you to a distant, ancient black hole that … really shouldn’t be, and psyches you up for the Dawn spacecraft’s final approach to Ceres!
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How to Tilt a Black Hole

12th - Higher Ed
It seems the more we learn about black holes, the more there is to find out. In this case, what in the universe could have put one on its side?
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Instructional Video12:51
TED Talks

TED: How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman

12th - Higher Ed
At the heart of the Milky Way, there's a supermassive black hole that feeds off a spinning disk of hot gas, sucking up anything that ventures too close -- even light. We can't see it, but its event horizon casts a shadow, and an image of...
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Instructional Video3:33
SciShow

What Stephen Hawking Really Said About Black Holes

12th - Higher Ed
Hank explains the science behind recent reports that physics great Stephen Hawking said "there are no black holes." There are. They're just super complicated.
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The Kugelblitz: A Black Hole Made From Light

12th - Higher Ed
Can you make a black hole out of light? Learn about the strange theoretical object called the 'Kugelblitz'.
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How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
For the first time ever we have visual confirmation that black holes actually exist and we got it with a telescope the size of our planet.
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Instructional Video10:16
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Black Holes from the Dawn of Time

12th - Higher Ed
Primordial black holes may be lurking throughout our universe. How large are they, how many are out there and what would happen if they moved through our solar system?
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Is the Moon in Majora's Mask a Black Hole?

12th - Higher Ed
It's easy to take things at face value in video games. But when we take a deeper dive into the physics in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, it seems that the "MOON" might be one of those things that isn't quite what it seems. Given its...
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Instructional Video8:32
Curated Video

Black Hole Swarms

12th - Higher Ed
It's been conjectured that the center of the Milky Way is swarming with tens of thousands of black holes. And now we've actually seen them.
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Instructional Video10:56
Curated Video

How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole

12th - Higher Ed
Find out how time and space switch roles when we move beyond the event horizon of the black hole.
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Instructional Video11:41
Curated Video

The Black Hole Entropy Enigma

12th - Higher Ed
Black Holes should have no entropy, but they in fact hold most of the entropy in the universe. Let's figure this out.
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What Survives Inside A Black Hole?

12th - Higher Ed
Black holes are the result of absolute gravitational collapse of a massive body: a point of hypothetical infinite density surrounded by an event horizon. At that horizon time is frozen and the fabric of space itself cascades inwards at...
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Instructional Video12:21
Curated Video

What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?

12th - Higher Ed
It may be that for every star in the universe there are billions of microscopic black holes streaming through the solar system, the planet, even our bodies every second. Sounds horrible - but hey, at least we’d have explained dark matter.
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Instructional Video12:24
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Do Black Holes Create New Universes?

12th - Higher Ed
Physicists have been struggling for some time to figure out why our universe is so comfy. Why, for example, are the fundamental constants - like the mass of the electron or the strength of the forces - just right for the emergence of...
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NEW DISCOVERY About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!

12th - Higher Ed
Astrophysicists have discovered a black hole that for millions of years has been blasting vast particle beams in opposite directions across the sky. And has recently swiveled to point its one of these jets directly at us. Is this an...
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Instructional Video3:46
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5 Things: Black Holes

3rd - 11th
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in the universe. 🌌 Here are five things to know! Have questions about black holes on #BlackFriday? 🕳️ Leave your questions in the comments below! Join NASA Goddard scientists later today...
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Instructional Video1:50
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OSIRIS-REx Observes a Black Hole

3rd - 11th
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30,000 light-years away. Last fall, the student-built Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer...
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Science360

What is a black hole?

12th - Higher Ed
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."
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The Milky Way May Have a Disk of Black Holes

12th - Higher Ed
Computer models are helping scientists on the hunt for small black holes and new data is giving us a better understanding of the universe’s largest explosions.
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Instructional Video14:13
TED Talks

Juna Kollmeier: The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made

12th - Higher Ed
Humans have been studying the stars for thousands of years, but astrophysicist Juna Kollmeier is on a special mission: creating the most detailed 3-D maps of the universe ever made. Journey across the cosmos as she shares her team's work...
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Instructional Video14:20
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Holes In Space That Aren't Black | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve talked a lot about black holes, but there are other kinds of space holes out there that deserve some time in the spotlight!
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Instructional Video10:00
SciShow

From Thunderstorms to Black Holes: 4 Natural Particle Accelerators

12th - Higher Ed
We've been making particle accelerators for more than a century and have accelerated particles to more than 99.9999% the speed of light. But our accelerators are nothing compared to some of the ones we've found in nature!

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