Nova: Monster Of The Milky Way
2006 · 52 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 72 VOTES · DIR. Julia Cort, Thomas Lucas
Overview
Astronomers are closing in on the proof they've sought for years that one of the most destructive objects in the universe—a supermassive black hole—lurks at the center of our own galaxy. Could it flare up and consume our entire galactic neighborhood? Join NOVA on a mind-bending investigation into one of the most bizarre corners of cosmological science: black hole research. From event horizon to singularity, the elusive secrets of supermassive black holes are revealed through stunning computer-generated imagery, including an extraordinary simulation of what it might look like to fall into the belly of such an all-devouring beast.
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00:00:02 Somewhere not far from Earth, a star enters its death throes...
00:02:25 Scientists now believe it is the largest and most powerful object in the universe
00:04:30 The most powerful telescopes cannot see it.
00:06:32 It's a region where space and time have closed in on itself.
00:08:33 You will be, as we say, spaghetti-fied.
00:10:41 We know exactly what effect a black hole is going to have on its environment
00:12:44 Madeline, we're ready to go.
00:14:25 but on the other hand... we would have to compile like
00:16:20 It uses a powerful laser beam to read the turbulence.
00:18:12 and collect the evidence for such an incredible object was really an amazing achievement.
00:20:06 based on Einstein's own equations - we can visualize the scene.
00:22:18 They take a series of steel plates
00:24:26 Over billions of years
00:26:54 it may very well be that they needed each other.
00:28:55 It found a tiny central region where gas is heated to tens of millions of degrees
00:31:21 There is an atmosphere of gas that pervades the entire galaxy cluster
00:32:56 that hurls enormous volumes of gas outward.
00:34:53 detected a powerful signal from the galactic centre.
00:36:37 Zoom in a little more.
00:38:18 Here clearly we see there's basically no source at that position.
00:39:54 these scientists hope to see the monster directly...
00:42:19 We've got neighbours.
00:44:26 that all of the gas around it will again be blown away
02:00:00 it made a huge jump to over here