The first source for video clips about black holes, gravitational waves and cosmic strings

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The first source for video clips about black holes, gravitational waves and cosmic strings

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Scienceface.org: Watch the whole story of black holes in a series of 15 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.

Your interviewer is Annalie Schutz, a young musician with a curiosity about black holes. She travels the world to catch the experts, tracking them down in Sydney, Edinburgh, Munich, and Berlin.

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Preview: Black holes - the (w)hole story

Cliff Will:
Black holes - the (w)hole story

In this episode Prof. Cliff Will takes us into the world of black hole science.

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Preview: The warped side of the universe

Kip Thorne:
The warped side of the universe

Kip is the man to talk with when it comes to black holes, gravitational waves, cosmic strings and a funny thing to travel with: ...

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Preview: The giant black hole in the Milky Way

Reinhard Genzel:
The giant black hole in the Milky Way

In this episode, Reinhard Genzel tells us how he discovered the massive black hole in our own galaxy.

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Preview: The lives of galaxies

Reinhard Genzel:
The lives of galaxies

Part 2

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Preview: How to discover a black hole

Reinhard Genzel:
How to discover a black hole

Part 3

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Preview: Black holes are everywhere

Guenter Hasinger:
Black holes are everywhere

Günther Hasinger has studied black holes that form from stars and the much bigger black holes in the centers of galaxies, just ...

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Preview: Experimenting with black holes

Joan Centrella:
Experimenting with black holes

Dr. Joan Centrella "creates" black holes on mighty computer clusters.

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Preview: Supernova in D

Christian Ott:
Supernova in D

Join Christian Ott for a look into the heart of an exploding star - a supernova.

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Preview: Teaming up to study black holes

Ed Seidel:
Teaming up to study black holes

In this episode, Ed Seidel describes how different branches of science must work together to successfully study black holes.

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