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Recent discoveries and updates of the Chandra mission in video and audio formats.
Learn About Black Holes (12-27-2012)
If a star has three times or more the mass of the sun and collapses, it can form a black hole.
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-- Learn About Black Holes
If a star has three times or more the mass of the sun and collapses, it can form a black hole.
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-- Learn About Black Holes
PKS 0745 in 60 Seconds (12-18-2012)
Some of the biggest black holes in the Universe may actually be even bigger than previously thought.
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-- From Super to Ultra: Just How Big Can Black Holes Get?
-- Tour of PKS 0745
Some of the biggest black holes in the Universe may actually be even bigger than previously thought.
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- With closed-captions (at YouTube)
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- Transcript
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-- From Super to Ultra: Just How Big Can Black Holes Get?
-- Tour of PKS 0745
NGC 4342 and NGC 4291 in 60 Seconds (06-13-2012)
Astronomers think that just about every galaxy has a giant black hole at its center.
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-- Black Hole Growth Found to be Out of Synch
-- Tour of NGC 4342 and NGC 4291
Astronomers think that just about every galaxy has a giant black hole at its center.
- Download Video (33.9 MB, Runtime: 1:38)
- With closed-captions (at YouTube)
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- Transcript
- Related Links:
-- Black Hole Growth Found to be Out of Synch
-- Tour of NGC 4342 and NGC 4291
CID-42 in 60 Seconds (06-04-2012)
At the center of a galaxy some 4 billion light years from Earth, something extraordinary is happening. This galaxy, known as CID-42, contains a giant black hole.
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-- Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy
-- Tour of CID-42
At the center of a galaxy some 4 billion light years from Earth, something extraordinary is happening. This galaxy, known as CID-42, contains a giant black hole.
- Download Video (33.7 MB, Runtime: 1:43)
- With closed-captions (at YouTube)
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- Transcript
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-- Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy
-- Tour of CID-42
Sgr A* in 60 Seconds (02-09-2012)
Over several years, astronomers have noticed flares in X-ray light from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
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-- NASA's Chandra Finds Milky Way's Black Hole May be Grazing on Asteroids
-- Tour of Sagittarius A*
Over several years, astronomers have noticed flares in X-ray light from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
- Download Video (53.1 MB, Runtime: 1:58)
- With closed-captions (at YouTube)
- Listen to Audio Only
- Transcript
- Related Links:
-- NASA's Chandra Finds Milky Way's Black Hole May be Grazing on Asteroids
-- Tour of Sagittarius A*
Cygnus X-1 in 60 Seconds (11-18-2011)
Over three decades ago, Stephen Hawking placed, and eventually lost, a bet against the existence of a black hole in Cygnus X-1.
- Related Links:
-- NASA's Chandra Adds to Black Hole Birth Announcement
-- Tour of Cygnus X-1
Over three decades ago, Stephen Hawking placed, and eventually lost, a bet against the existence of a black hole in Cygnus X-1.
- Download Video (55.2 MB, Runtime: 1:37)
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- Transcript
- Related Links:
-- NASA's Chandra Adds to Black Hole Birth Announcement
-- Tour of Cygnus X-1
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