Why Do Black Holes Look Like This?!
Black holes look really weird because of the way light bends around them. This video explains how that all works and why black hole images look the way they do.
Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator
Em Lucid - Producer
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VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS
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• What Most People Get Wrong About Black Holes
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• What Most People Get Wrong About Black Holes
• What Most People Get Wrong About Black Holes
• What Most People Get Wrong About Black Holes
• What Most People Get Wrong About Black Holes
• What Most People Get Wrong About Black Holes
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NASA Black Hole Graphics:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13326
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12854
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12005
Sagittarius A*
https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blo...
M87*
https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blo...
NASA Simulation:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13326
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TIME CODES
00:00 Cold Open
00:36 Accretion Disks
01:17 Doppler Beaming
01:47 Optics
03:02 Gravity Bends Light
04:15 Innermost Stable Circular Orbit (ISCO)
04:52 Photon Orbits
05:51 Black Hole Shadow
06:45 Closing Thoughts
07:11 Featured Comment