Product: NOVA: Monster of the Milky Way (1974)
Rating: 3.0
Sometimes Slow; Too Long
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.