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Season 47 Episode 4: Is Seeing Believing?

59 SeasonsNov 03, 2009TV-PG1h7.8

Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apart and swallowing an entire star. Yet scientists now believe they could hold the key to answering the ultimate question - what was there before the Big Bang? The trouble is that researching them is next to impossible. Black holes are by definition invisible and there's no scientific theory able to explain them. Despite these obvious obstacles, Horizon meets the astronomers attempting to ima...

Season 47 Episodes:

Episode 1 Back from the Dead

1. Back from the Dead

Aired: Oct 13, 2009

Alcohol is by far the most widely used drug - and a dangerous one at that. So...

Episode 2 The Death of the Oceans?

2. The Death of the Oceans?

Aired: Oct 20, 2009

Sir David Attenborough reveals the findings of an investigation into what is ...

Episode 3 What Happened Before the Big Bang?

3. What Happened Before the Big Bang?

Aired: Oct 27, 2009

Horizon follows the emotional journey of three young people with currently un...

Episode 4 Is Seeing Believing?

4. Is Seeing Believing?

Aired: Nov 3, 2009

Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable o...

Episode 5 Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome

5. Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome

Aired: Nov 10, 2009

Completed ten years ago, the $4 billion Human Genome Project promised cures f...

Episode 6 How Long is a Piece of String?

6. How Long is a Piece of String?

Aired: Nov 17, 2009

Alan Davies attempts to answer the proverbial question: how long is a piece o...

Episode 7 Deepwater Disaster: The Untold Story

7. Deepwater Disaster: The Untold Story

Aired: Jan 6, 2010

A look into a massive oil mining accident that allowed over 5000 barrels of o...

Episode 8 What Is One Degree?

8. What Is One Degree?

Aired: Jan 13, 2010

Just months ago, the world stood in fear of an emerging new disease that thre...

Episode 9 What is Reality?

9. What is Reality?

Aired: Jan 20, 2010

Over a person's lifetime they are likely to be prescribed more than 14,000 pi...

Episode 10 Science Under Attack

10. Science Under Attack

Aired: Feb 3, 2010

Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under at...

Episode 11 The Secret World of Pain

11. The Secret World of Pain

Aired: Feb 10, 2010

Series exploring topical scientific issues. Featuring the latest research int...

Episode 12 Surviving a Car Crash

12. Surviving a Car Crash

Aired: Feb 17, 2010

Meet the scientists working to make fatal car crashes a thing of the past. A ...

Episode 13 How to Mend a Broken Heart

13. How to Mend a Broken Heart

Aired: Mar 2, 2010

Science series. Dr Kevin Fong meets some of the people who have undergone pio...

Episode 14 Are we still Evolving?

14. Are we still Evolving?

Aired: Mar 9, 2010

Dr Alice Roberts asks one of the great questions about our species: are we st...

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Info about Horizon

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary