Stephen Hawking’s Lectures on Black Holes Now Fully Animated with Chalkboard Illustrations

A quick note: This week, the BBC post­ed the sec­ond of Stephen Hawk­ing’s Rei­th Lec­tures focus­ing on Black Holes. And, once again, they’ve ani­mat­ed the pre­sen­ta­tion with some fun chalk­board illus­tra­tions. You can watch Part 1, “Do Black Holes Have No Hair?” here. And now Part 2, “Black Holes Ain’t as Black as They Are Paint­ed,” above. Hawk­ing is get­ting a lit­tle play­ful with his gram­mar, isn’t he? Enjoy.

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