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TED Talks Science and Medicine

Inside the black hole image that made history | Sheperd Doeleman

TED Talks Science and Medicine

TED

Science, Technology, Education, Tech Demo, Design, Creativity, Ted Talks, Entertainment, Science & Medicine, Ted, Tedtalks, Inspiration

4.2833 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ ? minutes

Summary

At the center of a galaxy more than 55 million light-years away, there's a supermassive black hole with the mass of several billion suns. And now, for the first time ever, we can see it. Astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, head of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, speaks with TED's Chris Anderson about the iconic, first-ever image of a black hole -- and the epic, worldwide effort involved in capturing it.

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