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Release Date:
March 18, 2020
Original Title:
Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Collapsar
Sandbox Films
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
FR: U RO: 15
Runtime: 98
Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Horizon Telescope links observatories across the world to simulate an earth-sized instrument. With this tool the team pursues the first-ever picture of a black hole, resulting in an image seen by billions of people in April 2019. Meanwhile, Hawking and his team attack the black hole paradox at the heart of theoretical physics—Do predictive laws still function, even in these massive distortions of space and time? Weaving them together is a third strand, philosophical and exploratory using expressive animation. “Edge” is about practicing science at the highest level, a film where observation, theory, and philosophy combine to grasp these most mysterious objects.
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Art Direction:
Robert Gerard Pietrusko
Associate Producer:
Nicole Terrien
Co-Producer:
Chyld King
Director:
Peter Galison
Director of Photography:
Allie Humenuk
Stephen McCarthy
Tim Cragg
Executive Producer:
Greg Boustead
Jessica Harrop
Original Music Composer:
Zoe Keating
Producer:
Peter Galison
Sound Designer:
Craig Henighan
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