A new theory called Direct Collapse emerged. ibid.
A journey to infinity and beyond. A place where the rules of physics collapse. Where time and space twist and distort. Travel back to the past and see into the future. Enter the most extreme least understood place in the universe: the heart of a supermassive black hole. How the Universe Works s4e3: Monster Black Hole
Most black holes are born when a giant star dies. After the explosion gravity seizes control of the star’s core … The giant star is crushed down to a fraction of its original size. ibid.
They even eat each other. ibid.
Two black holes circle each other spiralling inwards as their immense gravity pulls them ever closer towards their demise. When they finally collide it’s one of the most powerful events since the Big Bang … How did super-massive black holes grow so large? How the Universe Works s5e3: Black Holes: The Secret Origin
The black hole in galaxy NG4889 weighs twenty-one billion solar masses. There could be black holes that are even bigger. ibid.
With no food available the black hole stops growing. ibid.
It doesn’t make sense: Physics tells us no black hole could swallow enough stuff to get that big that quickly … Perhaps they were born supermassive. ibid.
Supermassive black holes act like supercharged particle accelerators. They superheat and blast particles in jets from the poles. These accelerated particles are cosmic rays. How the Universe Works s5e6: The Universe’s Deadliest
Cosmologists are baffling over the universe’s greatest enigma: black holes. We’ve never seen them, it’s near impossible to study them, and their existence challenges everything we think we know about space. Black holes are at the very heart of cosmology yet some scientists question if they are even real. How the Universe Works s6e1: Are Black Holes Real, Discovery 2018
Cosmologists are listening for proof in the hidden world of gravitational waves. ibid.
What if black holes have hair? … These hairy black holes could solve the information paradox. ibid.
Quantum mechanics is at the heart of the problem. ibid.
Supermassive black holes. The engines that power our universe. They’re the driving force at the heart of nearly every galaxy in the cosmos. Now, a new mystery has emerged about the oldest supermassive black holes. We have clues about their formation but can we solve the mystery of this supermassive growth spurt? How the Universe Works s9e3: Birth of Monster Black Holes
We’re on a journey to the heart of the supermassive black hole M87 Star. Our mission: to investigate one of the most mysterious places in the universe. Supermassive black holes are the engines that power the universe. How the Universe Works s9e11: Journey to a Black Hole
The Event Horizon telescope photo is the first picture ever taken of a black hole. ibid.
There are old red giants so puffed up they are coming apart at the seams. Supernovae – the most spectacular firework displays in the universe. Mysterious black holes. Seven Ages of Starlight, BBC 2012
There are monsters out in the cosmos that can swallow entire stars. That can destroy space itself. Black Holes. For decades they remained completely hidden. Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman s1e2: The Riddle of Black Holes, Discovery 2010
You, me, and the world we live in may be nothing more than an illusion. ibid.
What interests black hole researchers is not the explosion it’s what happens at the very centre of a black star. ibid.
This clover-leaf pattern keeps coming up in the simulations ... Bears an uncannily resemblance to the way two of the lightest objects move around one another: the tiny protons and electrons inside an atom. ibid.
If Hawking was right, black holes should not be black, they should shine ever so faintly. No-one has ever detected Hawking Radiation from the rim of the black hole. ibid.
Hawking had taken the idea to its logical conclusion: for every ounce of material a black hole absorbs into its core, it would radiate away the equivalent amount of energy from its event horizon. ibid.
Every object that falls into a black hole leaves its mark both at the central mass and on the shimmering hologram on the event horizon. ibid.
Every object that falls into a black hole leaves its mark both at the central mass and on the shimmering hologram of the event horizon. Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman s1e3: The Riddle of Black Holes, Science 2010
Black holes ... Could the secrets of time travel lurk in their Stygian depths? Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman s1e4: Is Time Travel Possible?
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into? Neil deGrasse Tyson
Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analysing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature. Brian Greene
We’re not sure what came first. The Galaxy or the Black Hole. Professor Michelle Thaller
Holly: Well, the thing about a black hole – its main distinguishing feature – is it’s black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
Rimmer: But five of them? How can you manage to miss five black holes?
Holly: It’s always the way, innit? You hang around for three million years in deep space and there hasn’t been one, then all of a sudden five turn up at once. Red Dwarf s3e2: Marooned, BBC 1989
That someone has managed to contain a singularity, construct a space station around it and tap its power, that’s fascinating. Star Trek: Voyager s4e15: Hunters, Chakotay on bridge
I’ve been brushing up on sink-holes, quantum singularities, and all the data leads me to the same conclusion: they’re mono-directional phenomena – what’s goes in doesn’t come out. Star Trek: Voyager s5e13: Gravity, Noss
If light does have weight, as Einstein said, then it ought to be affected by gravity. And if that were true, black holes should be possible. Black holes: dead stars so big their gravity pulls in light. James Burke, Connections s3e4: An Invisible Object, BBC 1997
Eric Becklin has discovered the very heart of the Milky Way. The exact location of the mysterious energy source. But its staggering power meant that this was no ordinary star. Scientists believe the only one thing that could explain the mystery was the very idea that Einstein had rejected. Cosmic Monsters, National Geographic 2009
The object [at the centre of our galaxy] weighed in at a staggering three million times that of our sun. ibid.
The universe holds a giant cosmic secret. Nobody’s ever seen what a black hole really looks like. Now at team of international astronomers are on a mission to find out … This is the inside story of the mission to capture the first real picture of a black hole. How to See a Black Hole: The Universe’s Greatest Mystery, BBC 2019
Taking a picture of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy … [and] a black hole in the centre of a different galaxy called M87. ibid.
Of all the objects in the cosmos none are as strange, mysterious, more powerful, as black holes. First discovered on paper the bizarre solution of a seemingly unsolvable equation Einstein himself could not accept black holes as real. Nova: Black Hole Apocalypse, PBS 2018
Do black holes somehow shape the very structure of the universe? ibid.
This is the supermassive black hole and the centre of our galaxy. Sagittarius A Star. There now begins a subtle tug towards it. The Entire History of the Universe e15: What Was the First Black Hole?
It isn’t just time that warps … What you experience inside no-one can say. Certainly not you. ibid.
First mooted in 1783, the incomprehensible horror of these ultimate galactic predators has captured the imagination of scientists and pushed the boundaries of science for decades. ibid.
Just how did they get so big in the first place? ibid.
A black hole is stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers. A region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape. Once over the edge there’s no way back. Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, Hawking, Netflix 2021
The goal of the Event Horizon Telescope is … [to] take the first picture of a black hole. ibid. scientist
And as they radiate they lose mass and eventually disappear. ibid.
We set up telescopes around the earth that can talk to each other, that can record data in tandem … an array of eight dishes around the world. ibid.
Black holes were the best explanation for what we observed. ibid.
We’ve shown that the soft hair can account for all of the information that’s stored in a black hole. ibid.
A picture of a black hole is revealed for the first time. ibid. The New York Times