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How Do Black Holes Really Work?: Media

You’ve seen them in sci-fi, but what are they like in the wild?

Videos

Black holes and why time slows down when you are near one
Brian Greene provides a visual exploration of black holes and some of the mathematics...
Video: © World Science Festival (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

Illustration of gravitational waves detected by LIGO on Dec. 26, 2015
The merging of two black holes in a binary system and the gravitational waves that...
LIGO/T. Pyle