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Nov 2016
49m 37s

Hunting for Black Holes, with Janna Levi...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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If light can’t escape from black holes, how can we observe them at all? Find out from astrophysicist Janna Levin, co-host Matt Kirshen, and Shep Doeleman, the MIT astrophysicist leading the Event Horizon Telescope project to study black hole Sgr A* at the center of our galaxy. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode c ... Show More
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