The Best Black Holes Documentaries

Space & the Universe - 74 free documentaries about black holes.

Start with This Black Hole Could be Bigger Than The Universe (12 min, Kurzgesagt), then Black Hole Apocalypse: What's Inside a Black Hole? (113 min, NOVA PBS Official). All 74 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on black holes is Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne.

• This Black Hole Could be Bigger Than The Universe (12 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Black Hole Apocalypse: What's Inside a Black Hole? (113 min, NOVA PBS Official)
• We Thought All Black Holes Came From Stars. We May Have Been Wrong. (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• We Thought Black Holes Created Event Horizons. It Might Be the Opposite (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• Black Holes, The Big Bang, And More Of The Universe's Greatest Mysteries (198 min, Spark)
• How to Understand What Black Holes Look Like (9 min, Veritasium)
• Black Hole's Evil Twin - Gravastars Explained (14 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Black Hole Star – The Star That Shouldn't Exist (10 min, Kurzgesagt)
• We Thought Black Holes Ended in Singularities. They Might End In a Frozen Big Bang. (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies - Quasars (11 min, Kurzgesagt)
• What If You Fall into a Black Hole? (12 min, Kurzgesagt)
• What Happens If A Black Hole Hits Earth? (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• Gravitational Wave Background Discovered? (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole? (11 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Is It IMPOSSIBLE To Cross The Event Horizon? | Black Hole Firewall Paradox (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• When black holes go faster than light (9 min, Steve Mould)
• The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison (14 min, Kurzgesagt)
• What if Singularities DO NOT Exist? (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole? (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations (8 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Ghost Particles Are Exposing Hidden Black Holes. They Just Won a Nobel Prize. (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• Spinning Black Holes (10 min, Veritasium)
• The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves (9 min, Veritasium)
• Do Black Holes Create New Universes? (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• Are we in Danger? Black Holes and Killer Stars | How the Universe Works (56 min, Science Channel)
• Are Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs? (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• Why Black Holes Could Delete The Universe – The Information Paradox (10 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Can Black Holes Unify General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics? (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• What Happens To Quantum Information Inside A Black Hole? (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Did JWST SOLVE The Mystery of Supermassive Black Hole Origins? (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole? (13 min, PBS Space Time)
• What If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere? (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes? (12 min, PBS Space Time)
• What Happens at the Event Horizon? | Space Time (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• Gravitational waves explained a little deeper (25 min, Steve Mould)
• JWST May Have Discovered a New Cosmic Object: The Black Hole Star (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• The NEW PHYSICS of Black Hole Star Capture | Extreme Tidal Disruption Events (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• Was the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?!? (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• NEW DISCOVERY About Supermassive Black Holes Explained! (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• What If Black Holes ARE Dark Energy? (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Have We SOLVED The Black Hole Information Paradox with Wormholes? (14 min, PBS Space Time)
• How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Phantom Singularity | Space Time (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• Do Black Holes Have to Be Black? (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Dissolving an Event Horizon (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• How Black Holes Spin Space Time (14 min, PBS Space Time)
• Building Black Holes in a Lab (13 min, PBS Space Time)
• What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole? (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• Do Events Inside Black Holes Happen? (14 min, PBS Space Time)
• Peering Into The Abyss: The Truth About Black Holes | The New Frontier (48 min, Spark)
• Black Hole Harmonics (14 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Real Science of the EHT Black Hole (12 min, PBS Space Time)
• Black Holes: What Do We Know About Them So Far? (26 min, Spark)
• What Is A Black Hole? | Hubble's Canvas (26 min, Spark)
• How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole | Space Time (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• Unravelling The Mysteries Of Black Holes (50 min, Spark)
• How To Capture Black Holes (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• How Black Holes Kill Galaxies (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Black Hole Entropy Enigma (12 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Black Hole Information Paradox (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• Black Hole Swarms | Space Time (12 min, PBS Space Time)
• Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves (13 min, PBS Space Time)
• What Survives Inside A Black Hole? (14 min, PBS Space Time)
• LIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves! (10 min, PBS Space Time)
• Black Holes from the Dawn of Time (14 min, PBS Space Time)
• How to Build a Black Hole (13 min, PBS Space Time)
• What Do We Know About Black Holes? | Secrets Of The Universe (23 min, Spark)
• How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer (11 min, PBS Space Time)
• Have Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!? (11 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Future of Gravitational Waves (8 min, PBS Space Time)
• Is the Moon in Majora’s Mask a Black Hole? (10 min, PBS Space Time)

Top-Rated Books About Black Holes

1. Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne (3/5) - View on Amazon
2. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
3. Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin - View on Amazon
4. Black Holes and Baby Universes by Stephen Hawking (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
5. Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin - View on Amazon
6. Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson (4.3/5) - View on Amazon