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Nothing can escape. They can suck in whole galaxies. Black holes used to be science fiction. Now we know they're real. When I was a PhD student, People used to giggle when you'd hear about black holes. They're like unicorns, mythical creatures. We called this the "giggle factor." People would say, beam me up, Scotty. Well, no one is laughing anymore. Krauss: So, they're not science fiction. Even though we've never landed in one, We have enough evidence to know that they're really out there.
This image might not look like much to you and me, But to a scientist, it's proof that black holes exist. It's an actual movie of a black hole devouring a star In the constellation of Aquila. Black holes a...
Deep within the jungles of southern India, there lives a legendary king respected and feared by all....
Yellowstone, the world's first national park opened in 1898. It was meant to be a wild Utopia....
There is a place that is above all others... a place where dreams are chased above the clouds, a pla...
In the dark waters of the North Atlantic, the great passenger liner, R.M.S. Titanic, came to a viole...
Australian Great Barrier Reef. In the liquid skin of planet Earth live creatures of unearthly beauty...
This is the story of the greatest scientific discovery ever. The discovery that everything is made o...
It is 2480 BC, and there is nothing to be seen in this part of the Sahara Desert... nothing but the ...
This is the story of the first ever use of a weapon of mass destruction. Very recently the weapon we...
The greatest triumph of civilization is often seen as our mastery of heat. Yet our conquest of cold ...
Over 200 years ago, when the United States was created, the Founding Fathers gav...
In the wild heart of Venezuela, earth and water merge to create a landscape like...
In the winter of 1807, a lone fur-trapper journeyed deep into the heart of the R...
Yellowstone, the world's first national park opened in 1898. It was meant ...
For six months Yellowstone endures an unrelenting winter. An ice world of hunter...
It appears out of the dawn of time... caldron of life. This is the tropical fore...
India a land of seductive riches, land of the Kohinoor diamond a priceless gem w...
It was a forbidden place, and thus irresistible. A timeless land in the sky, an ...
This is the story of the greatest scientific discovery ever. The discovery that ...
In 1912, in a hot air balloon about three miles above the ground, an Austrian sc...