Eric Becklin, Reinhard Genzel and Adrea Ghez track the stars at the center of the Milky Way. In doing so, they determine that there is a black hole at our galaxy's heart. There are small stellar black holes and supermassive black holes like the ones at the centers of large galaxies. Infrared light is used to study the center of the Milky Way. Space falls into a black hole like water going over a waterfall. It is amazing how far astronomy and cosmology have come in the last few years. It makes me wonder what things will be like in the next century. Man will surely be on Mars. Maybe Pluto! Hey, Becklin! Get a haircut! This is not 1969!
2 Reviews
Could have been good - too much soundbite rattling.
Bernie44446 January 2024
NOVA Series 33 Episode 16 aired Oct 31, 2006.
It looks like it was originally produced in 1974, this NOVA Program Number 3314, focuses on our local black hole and tells how it was detected.
Just about every galaxy in the universe has a black hole. The problem is that in about five minutes tells how we detected our "The Monster of the Milky Way." Mostly the detection is by tracing star movements. The balance of the presentation is fluffy. We even get scenes from The Black Hole (1979).
Liev Schreiber is the narrator.
We have seen the other presenters in other Nova and Nova like presentations.
Cast (in alphabetical order)
Eric Becklin Gregory Benford - University of California, Irvine Tiziana Di Matteo - Carnegie Mellon University Reinhard Genzel Andrea Ghez Andrew Hamilton Brian McNamara Antony A. Stark Kip Thorne Neil deGrasse Tyson - who is probably the best presenter as he tries to explain his statements.
Color full screen.
It looks like it was originally produced in 1974, this NOVA Program Number 3314, focuses on our local black hole and tells how it was detected.
Just about every galaxy in the universe has a black hole. The problem is that in about five minutes tells how we detected our "The Monster of the Milky Way." Mostly the detection is by tracing star movements. The balance of the presentation is fluffy. We even get scenes from The Black Hole (1979).
Liev Schreiber is the narrator.
We have seen the other presenters in other Nova and Nova like presentations.
Cast (in alphabetical order)
Eric Becklin Gregory Benford - University of California, Irvine Tiziana Di Matteo - Carnegie Mellon University Reinhard Genzel Andrea Ghez Andrew Hamilton Brian McNamara Antony A. Stark Kip Thorne Neil deGrasse Tyson - who is probably the best presenter as he tries to explain his statements.
Color full screen.
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