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00:00 Our Supermassive Black Hole Revealed!
01:09 What do the colors mean?
02:07 Why is it blurry?
03:00 How the Event Horizon Telescope works
06:34 Why was it so hard to image Sgr A*?
09:08 Imaging the black hole with all of that variability
10:29 What are we actually seeing in the image?
16:15 What are those three blobs of light?
17:00 Next Steps for EHT - movies!
17:45 Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope for higher-resolution
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