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PBS Space Time

Season 2021 · Episode 25

First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole

0.018mSeptember 7, 2021

How do you see the unseeable - how do you explore the inescapable? Our cleverest astronomers have figured out ways to catch light that skims the very edge of black holes. Let’s find out what they learned.

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Episode 1What Happens During a Quantum Jump?
Episode 2Can We Break the Universe?
Episode 3Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?
Episode 4How Does Gravity Warp the Flow of Time?
Episode 5Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?
Episode 6Does Time Cause Gravity?
Episode 7How Does Gravity Affect Light?
Episode 8The NEW Crisis in Cosmology