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Edward Seidel tells us how scientists working on black holes are an international bunch and how they work together
Edward Seidel explains how some of todays most important technologies are spin-offs from black hole research
Edward Seidel tells us how black hole research impacts our everyday life
Christian Ott explains the strange link between exploding stars and musical notes
Badri Krishnan speaks on what me might hear when our gravitational wave observatories gather scientific data
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Black Holes - The (w)hole story
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A Black Hole is a cosmic body that is so massive that it warps space-time around it. Even light, the fastest thing in the universe cannot escape from it. The ordinary laws of physics do not work beyond the event horizon of a black hole. Giant black holes are formed in the centers of galaxies and can have billions of sun masses. Our own Milky Way has a giant black hole in the centre!
Scienceface.org: Watch the whole story of black holes in a series of 14 short interviews with famous scientists from all over the world, for whom black holes are their work and their passion.
Black holes: no phenomenon is stranger, no reality less tangible. Einstein rejected them, astronomers tried to ignore them. But today black holes are a fundamental part of the way scientists understand our universe. Scienceface.org gives you the whole picture.
Find out what black holes are and how astronomers observe them. Learn how physicists "experiment" with them using the world's fastest supercomputers, how astronomers hope to listen to black holes directly using huge gravitational wave detectors and why scientists no longer have Einstein's doubts about black holes.
