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Researched and Written by Leila Battison
Narrated and Edited by David Kelly
Incredible thumbnail art by Ettore Mazza, the GOAT: https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/?hl=en
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https://web.archive.org/web/20050511104943/http://www.mdtap.org/TT/1999.05/1-art.html
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/399/kuiper-belt-in-depth/
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4172
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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2019/4/19/how-scientists-captured-the-first-image-of-a-black-hole/
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https://www.space.com/testable-primordial-black-holes-theory
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Huge thanks to the IllustrisTNG collaboration for footage of their simulation.
Thanks to NASA and ESO for space footage.
Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid.
Soundtrack from Silver Maple, Artlist and Epidemic Sound.
Image Credits:
Cygnus By T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) – https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-cyg_x1/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106094689
Keiper Belt NASA/GSFC/Marc Kuchner and Christopher Stark
La Silla By ESO/José Francisco Salgado – http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1319a/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26059347
Sedna Orbit By Tomruen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60453344
Planet 9 nagualdesign; Tom Ruen, background taken from File:ESO – Milky Way.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Milky way halo By ESO/L. Calçada – http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1217a/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26366780
Virgo Cluster By Pablo Carlos Budassi – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94421982
M87 Galaxy By Chris Mihos (Case Western Reserve University)/ESO – http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1525a/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41184851
GURT By Serge Yerin (YeS) – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84488536
Large Milimeter Telescope By panza.rayada, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53438718
Very Large Array By CGP Grey – 2009-08-24T14-15-41 — DSC_0013 4892860281, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37019504
Event Horizon Telescopes By The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration – (2019). "First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole". The Astrophysical Journal 875 (1). DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/ab0ec7. ISSN 20418213. Figure 1, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77916273
Event Horizon Infographic By ALMA, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106758965
ton 618 By Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Apache Point Observatory, Astrophysical Research Consortium – http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/?target=Ton%20%20618&fov=0.033334&survey=P%2fSDSS9%2fcolor, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97489739
Black Hole Eats Star Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR)
Universe Simulation NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing
00:00 Introduction
06:14 The First Black Hole
15:13 Supermassive
26:11 Before Atoms
34:22 Finding The Needle