Web Site Credits
Lauren Aguirre,
Executive Editor
Gayle Añonuevo,
Editorial Assistant
Harley Brown, Web Intern
Brenden Kootsey,
Senior Web Developer
David Levin,
Editorial Assistant
Susan K. Lewis, Editor
Anna Malsberger, Designer
Peter Tyson, Editor in Chief
Anya Vinokour,
Senior Designer
Special Thanks
Lynn Cominsky,
Sonoma State University
NASA Education and Public Outreach Group,
Sonoma State University
Image Credits
Monster of the Milky Way homepage
Image composite: (black hole consuming star) Courtesy
NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; (black hole grid) © Denver Museum of
Nature & Science/Andrew Hamilton, University of Colorado
Inside an Enigma
Images: (Centaurus A, black hole spectrum) Courtesy NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center; (black hole bubble, dust ring,
spiral galaxy) Courtesy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center;
(supermassive black holes) X-ray data courtesy
NASA/CXC/AIfA/D.Hudson & T.Reiprich et al., Radio data
courtesy NRAO/VLA/NRL; (Milky Way) Courtesy NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
Galactic Explorer
Images: (Andrea Ghez) Courtesy UCLA; (Milky Way heart, star
orbits, galactic center) Courtesy Andrea Ghez & UCLA
Galactic Center Group, data obtained with W. M. Keck Telescopes;
(Keck II telescope) Courtesy W. M. Keck Observatory; (Earth in
black hole) © Forrest J. Ackerman Collection/CORBIS; (girl
with newspaper) Public domain/Courtesy Wikipedia.org &
Rufus330Ci; (ladies of Observatory Hill) Courtesy
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Tiny Black Holes
Images: (Andromeda Galaxy) Courtesy NASA Marshall Space Flight
Center; (Asteroid Ida, solar system) Courtesy NASA Jet
Propulsion Laboratory; (gamma-ray burst) Courtesy
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/Artist rendering by
David A. Aguilar; (Charles Keeton) Courtesy Charles Keeton;
(Arlie Petters) Courtesy Arlie Petters
Black Holes Explained
Images: (Gregory Benford) Courtesy Gregory Benford; (Roger
Blandford) Courtesy Roger Blandford; (David Brin) Courtesy David
Brin; (Reinhard Genzel) Courtesy Reinhard Genzel; (Andrea Ghez)
Courtesy Andrea Ghez; (Andrew Hamilton) Courtesy Andrew
Hamilton; (Brian McNamara) Courtesy Brian McNamara; (Mark
Morris) Courtesy Mark Morris; (Steve Ritz) Courtesy Steve Ritz;
(Kip Thorne) Courtesy Caltech; (Neil deGrasse Tyson) ©
NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation
Birth of a Black Hole
Images: (all) © Denver Museum of Nature &
Science/Andrew Hamilton, University of Colorado
Catalogue of the Cosmos
Images: (asteroid, Earth, elliptical galaxy, globular cluster,
Milky Way) Courtesy NASA; (binary star system) Courtesy NASA,
Susan Terebey/Extrasolar Research Corp.; (black hole) Courtesy
Karl Gebhardt/University of Michigan, Tod Lauer/NOAO; (blue
straggler) Courtesy NASA, Rex Saffer/Villanova University and
Dave Zurek/STScI; (comet) Courtesy NASA, H.A. Weaver/Applied
Research Corp., P.D. Feldman/The Johns Hopkins University;
(galaxy) Courtesy NASA, Hubble Heritage Team/STScI/AURA, G.R.
Meurer and T.M. Heckman/The Johns Hopkins University, C.
Leitherer, J. Harris and D. Calzetti/STScI, M. Sirianni/ The
Johns Hopkins University; (gamma-ray burst, nebula) Courtesy
NASA, S.R. Kulkarni and S.G. Djorgovski/Caltech, Caltech GRB
Team; (magellanic clouds, spiral galaxy) Courtesy Hubble
Heritage Team/AURA/STScI/NASA; (neutron star) Courtesy NASA,
Fred Walter/State University of New York at Stony Brook; (Orion
Nebula) Courtesy NASA, Hubble Heritage Team/STScI; (planetary
nebula) Courtesy NASA, J.P. Harrington and K.J.
Borkowski/University of Maryland; (quasar) Courtesy NASA, John
Bahcall/Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton; (supernova)
Courtesy Chung Shing Jason Pun/NASA/GCFC, Robert P.
Kirshner/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; (white
dwarf) Courtesy NASA, Harvey Richer/University of British
Columbia, Vancouver
TV Program Description
Image: ( black hole dust girdle) Courtesy ESA/NASA, the AVO
project, Paolo Padovani
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TV Program Credits
Narrated by
Liev Schreiber
Produced and Directed by
Thomas Lucas and Julia Cort
Written by
Julia Cort and Jonathan Grupper
Associate Producer
Anthony Manupelli
Edited by
Dan McCabe
Additional Editing by
Tony Breuer
Narrated by
Liev Schreiber
3D Cosmic Visualizations for NCSA
University of Illinois
NCSA Producer and Art Director
Donna Cox
NCSA Art Director and Choreographer
Robert Patterson
NCSA Co-Producers
Donna Cox
Robert Patterson
NCSA Technical Director
Stuart Levy
Science Directors
Lynn Cominsky
Andrew Hamilton
Science Consultant
Phil Plait
Camera
Richard Lerner
John Shenk
Erich Roland
Jeff Baker
Gary Henoch
Brian Knappenberger
Reuben Aaronson
South Pole Camera
Gregory A. Wright
Assistant Editor
Shana McHugh
Music
Rob Morsberger
NCSA Visualization Team
Alex Betts
David Bock
Matthew Hall
Lorne Leonard
Animation and Graphics
Andrew Hamilton, University of Colorado, Boulder
Avery Broderick
Bill Carr
Brad Thompson
Chris Martin
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Edgeworx, Inc.
Inna Leonov
Jim Arthurs, The Image Shoppe
Mike Bruno
Roger Smith
Spitz Creative Media
Tiziana Di Matteo
Trent Schindler, National Science Foundation
Werner Benger
Wes Thompson
William Mahler, IslandFX
Zolt Levay
Milky Way Panorama
Digital Sky, LLC
Scientific Simulations
Michael Norman, UCSD
Brian O'Shea, Los Alamos NL
Brant Robertson, U. of Chicago
Lars Hernquist, Harvard
Tiziana Di Matteo, Carnegie Mellon
T.J. Cox, Harvard
Volker Springel, Max-Planck Institute
John Hawley, U. of Virginia
Andrea Ghez, UCLA
Jessica Lu, UCLA
Renyue Cen, Princeton
Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton
Reference Imagery
Jean-Charles Cuillandre
Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
Zsolt Frei
James Gunn
Doug Roberts
Mark Morris
W.M. Goss
Online Editor and Colorist
Mark Steele
Audio Mix
John Jenkins
Archival Material
Alex Mellinger
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Corbis
Milky Way based on an image of M83 by David Malin
Fred Baganoff
UCLA, Galactic Center Group
Hubble Space Telescope Images courtesy of NASA and Space
Telescope Science Institute/AURA
Special Thanks
Digital Sky, LLC
Jeff Carpenter
Keck Telescope, Hawaii
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Sarah Silva
Very Large Telescope Array, Paranal, Chile
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NOVA Series Graphics
yU + co.
NOVA Theme Music
Walter Werzowa
John Luker
Musikvergnuegen, Inc.
Additional NOVA Theme Music
Ray Loring
Post Production Online Editor
Mark Steele
Closed Captioning
The Caption Center
NOVA Administrator
Ashley King
Publicity
Eileen Campion
Anna Lowi
Researcher
Gaia Remerowski
Production Coordinator
Linda Callahan
Unit Manager
Carla Raimer
Paralegal
Raphael Nemes
Legal Counsel
Susan Rosen Shishko
Assistant Editor
Alex Kreuter
Associate Producer, Post Production
Patrick Carey
Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole
Post Production Editor
Rebecca Nieto
Post Production Manager
Nathan Gunner
Supervising Producer
Stephen Sweigart
Producer, Special Projects
Susanne Simpson
Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane
Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham
Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace
Managing Director
Alan Ritsko
Senior Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell
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