Tracking a Black Hole’s Formation

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Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with NASA’s Universe of Learning partners: Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Video imagery:

  • Animation of a supernova: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Artist’s concept of massive star core collapse: Keith Miller, Caltech/IPAC – SELab
  • Illustration of the NASA WISE spacecraft: NASA/JPL-Caltech
  • Black hole science visualization: NASA/GSFC, Jeremy Schnittman 

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All narration is presented in text form within the video. In addition, a full transcript will be available in the Library in the near future. Check back soon!