小女儿意外身亡,马克·休斯(祖舒华·克洛斯 Joshua Close 饰)带着妻子玛丽(塞尔玛·布莱尔 Selma Blair 饰)、儿子布兰登(奎恩·罗德 Quinn Lord 饰)驱车来到位于偏远山间的私宅,试图让短暂的假期弥合心头的伤口。不过他们的宁静很快被邻居萨卡斯基一家打破。相对于依然沉浸在悲伤中且有些疏离冷漠的休斯夫妇,萨卡斯基家的男主人鲍比(詹姆斯·达西 James D’Arcy 饰)和妻子珍(蕾切尔·敏纳 Rachel Miner 饰)显得有些过分热情,他们主动要求登门拜访,期间问东问西,令气氛诡异紧张。直到布兰登和鲍比的儿子杰瑞(阿莱克斯·费瑞斯 Alex Ferris 饰)发生冲突,别扭的家庭聚会戛然中止,不欢而散。 然而对于休斯一家来说,真正的噩梦才刚刚开始……
For two years BBC cameras have followed, Dr Sheperd Doeleman of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the work of the Event Horizon Telescope project team, a collective of the top scientific minds from around the world. The project combines radio observatories and telescope facilities from around the world to make up a virtual telescope with a diameter spanning the entire planet. This mega-telescope’s ultimate mission is to capture the first image ever of a black hole. Although the concept of black holes has been long assumed to be fact, the Event Horizon Telescope’s success would definitively prove the existence of this scientific phenomena for the first time – and provide clear visual evidence. The programme brings viewers into the laboratories, behind the computer screens and beside the telescopes of what may prove to be one of the great astrophysical achievements in human history.