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It Takes A Village To See A Black Hole

Stellar is a miniseries that explores frontiers in space science and exploration featuring PBS Digital Studios’ most popular (and space loving) creators: Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl), Matt O’Dowd (Space Time) and Joe Hanson (It’s Okay to be Smart). The six episode miniseries is a cosmic road trip with our hosts visiting some of the most important astronomy research labs across America.

It Takes A Village To See A Black Hole

Season 1 Episode 3 | 6m 55s | CC

On April 10, 2019, astrophysicists from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration electrified the world with the first ever image of a black hole. How did that happen?

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