The Edge of All We Know: Peter Galison and Janna Levin in Conversation

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Physicist, renowned author, and filmmaker Peter Galison brings us on a quest to understand the most mysterious objects in the universe, black holes, in his fourth feature documentary, Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know (2021). Galison has a long-standing interest exploring the intersection between film and science. He joins Janna Levin to introduce and discuss his latest film.

What can black holes teach us about the boundaries of knowledge? These holes in spacetime are the darkest objects and the brightest—the simplest and the most complex. With unprecedented access, Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know follows two powerhouse collaborations. Stephen Hawking anchors one, striving to show that black holes do not annihilate the past. Another group, working in the world’s highest altitude observatories, creates an earth-sized telescope to capture the first-ever image of a black hole. Interwoven with other dimensions of exploring black holes, these stories bring us to the pinnacle of humanity’s quest to understand the universe.

Galison is a professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, the incoming director of the Black Hole Initiative and a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. He is also the Director and Producer of the new documentary Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know, now available on Netflix, AppleTV, and Google Play.

Janna Levin is Chair and Director of Science at Pioneer Works and Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Barnard College of Columbia University.

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The Pioneer Works Broadcast is supported in part by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, bridging the two cultures of science and the arts.