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Black holes look really weird because of the way light bends around them. This video explains how that all works and why black hole images look the way they do.
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Em Lucid - Producer
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TIME CODES
00:00 Cold Open
00:44 Accretion Disks
01:25 Doppler Beaming
01:55 Optics
03:10 Gravity Bends Light
04:21 Sponsor Message
05:53 Innermost Stable Circular Orbit (ISCO)
06:29 Photon Orbits
07:22 Black Hole Shadow
08:16 Closing Thoughts
08:42 Featured Comment
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