NOVA: Monster of the Milky Way
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Actor: Don Wescott, Peter Thomas (VI), Stacy KeachDirector: Nova
Brand: Public Broadcasting Service
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 56 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
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- 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 is lurking right in the center of our own galaxy. Could it flare up and devour our entire galactic neighborhood? Join NOVA on a mind-bending investigation into one of the most bizarre corners of cosmological science: the truth about black holes. From s
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DVD Review: Sometimes Slow; Too Long
Summary: 3 Stars
The subject is interesting but because the knowledge about Black Holes is so small, it became boring to watch the whole documentary. This should have been a 30 minute piece. Black Holes are very interesting in that they are not "visible" and are so incomprehensibly big (mass of billions and billions of suns) with gravitational pull to match. But that is about all they know. My attention waned through most of the documentary. Andrea Ghez of UCLA and Reinhart Genzel of Germany are brilliant and competitive astronomers are just starting to study these phenomena, so not much new other than black holes feed from nearby space dust off and on - and their location is can be determined by suns orbiting close by.
My surprise in watching this is that there is a lot of dust in the universe and in our Milky Way. So much dust we cannot see the center of the Milky Way unless we use ultraviolet light. By using this technique astronomers found the center of the Milky Way and found our Black Hole. They also showed how they determined that virtually every other galaxy has a black hole, so they are common.
Black holes are monsters but still mysterious and vague.
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