Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition. Episode 66 Birth Cries of Black Holes
(2025, original release: 2007)

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Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2007
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2025
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
15079982
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames

Until recently, astronomers had no smoking gun to identify the precise location and cause of gamma-ray bursts. Now they have assembled an abundance of clues pointing to two separate mechanisms: the collapse of a massive star, and the merging of two neutron stars—in each case creating a black hole

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Alex Filippenko

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2007

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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