How to take a picture of a black hole
- Title:
- How to take a picture of a black hole
- Speaker:
- Katie Bouman
- Description:
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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 that shadow could help answer some important questions about the universe. Scientists used to think that making such an image would require a telescope the size of Earth -- until Katie Bouman and a team of astronomers came up with a clever alternative. Bouman explains how we can take a picture of the ultimate dark using the Event Horizon Telescope.
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
closed TED
- Project:
- TEDTalks
- Duration:
- 12:51
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Jolanta Dohrmann edited Polish subtitles for How to take a picture of a black hole | |
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Jolanta Dohrmann edited Polish subtitles for How to take a picture of a black hole | |
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Jolanta Dohrmann edited Polish subtitles for How to take a picture of a black hole | |
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Jolanta Dohrmann edited Polish subtitles for How to take a picture of a black hole | |
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Jolanta Dohrmann edited Polish subtitles for How to take a picture of a black hole | |
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Jolanta Dohrmann edited Polish subtitles for How to take a picture of a black hole | |
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Jolanta Dohrmann edited Polish subtitles for How to take a picture of a black hole | |
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Jolanta Dohrmann edited Polish subtitles for How to take a picture of a black hole |