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Black holes ain't as black as they are painted
An illustrated version of Prof Stephen Hawking’s second Reith lecture about black holes.
While Prof Hawking examines and challenges scientific thinking about black holes, the artist Andrew Park draws the key points of the lecture in chalk on a blackboard.
(Animation produced by Cognitive.)
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Prof Stephen Hawking—The Reith Lectures
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