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Finding Black Holes in the X-ray Sky

Special | 55m 8s  | Video has closed captioning.

Karen Lewis, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, College of Wooster OH, studies x-rays to find the presence of Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN)—a super-massive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Lewis explains how to pick out the AGN from the rest of the universe’s x-ray sources.

Aired: 06/09/14

Rating: TV-G

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