Discovery have joined forces with Stephen Hawking’s fellow researchers in Cambridge … Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e1: Asking the Big Questions (short), DiscoveryPlus 2020
‘I want to know why the universe exists.’ ibid. Hawking to colleague
‘5 questions he helped solve: 1) Did the universe have a beginning in time? 2) Are black holes unique? 3) What happens when black holes collide? 4) Do black holes live for ever? 5) Do we know where galaxies come from?’ ibid.
David Scott, Apollo 15: With that hammer and the feather he was about to prove a prediction that was made 400 years earlier by this man: Galileo Galilei … They landed at exactly the same time. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e2: Relativity: Newton’s Law (short)
F = G Mm/r2 … Newton’s Law of Gravitation is simple but it’s hugely effective.
Our understanding of Gravity fundamentally changed with the radical theories of one world-famous scientist: Einstein. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e3: Einstein’s Very Special Theory (short)
14th September 2015: The first ever proof that black holes existed … The merger of a black-hole binary … generated gravitational waves. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e4: What are Gravitational Waves? (short)
These waves are very difficult to detect. ibid.
We’ll be discovering the science behind the amazing machines that allowed us to detect these waves, and how we can identify where they come from. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e5: Gravitational Waves (short)
Neutron stars: What happens when the collide? And what we learned when we detected the first neutron star collision. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e6: What Have We Observed So Far? (short)
We now have a brand-new wave of measuring the evolution of the universe: the Hubble Constant. ibid.
When large stars die … 20x more massive that our sun = Not even light can escape the gravitational pull … Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e7: What Exactly is a Black Hole? (short)
How we can see a black hole and what we can learn from observations … April 2019: An actual picture of a black hole for the first time ever. The image agrees with the predictions made by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity … Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e8: How Can We See a Black Hole? (short)
They can be described just by their mass and their spin. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e9: Do Black Holes Live Forever (short)
They emit what is called Hawking radiation. ibid.
We uncover some black hole secrets … Black holes emit heat … After trillions of years they evaporate completely … The discovery of Hawking radiation. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e23: Radiation & Quantum Gravity (short)
The study of extreme physics brought us the bomb. It has taken us inside the violent death of a star. And now it has brought us face to face with the most destructive force in nature – a supermassive black hole. How large, how powerful, can these monsters get? The Most Powerful Black Holes in the Universe, Amazon 2022
M87 is a black hole of truly cosmic proportions. It has been bulking up for billions of years on a steady diet of gas, dust, planets and stars. But it’s not the only billion-solar-mass black hole out there. Or even the largest. ibid.
TON618 may weigh as much as 66 billion of our sun. ibid.
Strange unnatural forces and mysterious disappearances –could black holes be found not only in space but also here on Earth? And if so, could they be facilitating extraterrestrial visitation? Ancient Aliens s13e4: Earth’s Black Hole
The South Atlantic anomaly has created problems for spacecraft for decades. ibid.