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Black holes look really weird because of the way light bends around them. This video explains how that all works and why black hole images look the way they do.
Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator
Em Lucid - Producer
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TIME CODES
00:00 Cold Open
00:44 Accretion Disks
01:25 Doppler Beaming
01:55 Optics
03:10 Gravity Bends Light
04:21 Sponsor Message
05:53 Innermost Stable Circular Orbit (ISCO)
06:29 Photon Orbits
07:22 Black Hole Shadow
08:16 Closing Thoughts
08:42 Featured Comment
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