Cosmic Journeys
Season 1 • Episode 21: Birth of a Black Hole • Watch with subtitles
Episode 21: Birth of a Black Hole
November 29, 2012 • 24 min
Spy satellites first saw these brief but extremely bright flashes of light in the 1960s. For three decades, gamma ray bursts for deep space were one of the persistent mysteries in all of science. It took a revolution in high-energy astronomy to prove that they are the distant birth cries of newborn black holes.
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