How We Know Black Holes Exist
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This video is about the astronomical amount of astronomical evidence for black holes, ranging from x-ray binaries with accretion disks, supermassive infrared-radiating galactic nuclei black holes, orbital characteristics of high mass binaries, and direct gravitational wave detection of inspiraling merging black hole binaries with LIGO. Yes, they're real.
REFERENCES
Interactive: Masses in the Stellar Graveyard ligo.northwestern.edu/media/m...
Galactic Center Orbital Models and Inner Stellar Distributions
Data provided by Andrea Ghez and Sylvana Yelda, UCLA (obtained with the Keck Telescopes)
Visualization by Stuart Levy and Robert Patterson, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/astrophy...
Masses of observed black Holes:
stellarcollapse.org/bhmasses
Downloadable LIGO Data: losc.ligo.org/events/GW170817/
LIGO Neutron Star Binary Merger: www.astronomy.com/news/2017/10...
Masses of observed neutron stars: stellarcollapse.org/nsmasses
Cygnus X-1 X-ray binary Black Hole: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_...
Lecture notes on black holes: eagle.phys.utk.edu/guidry/astr...
Calvera isolated neutron star X-ray source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvera...)
Scientific American: pulsar that behaves like a black hole
www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
Largest known neutron star: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_J03...
simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim...
Large Neutron Star: arxiv.org/abs/0712.0024
Wandering Black Hole: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ch...
Sagittarius A* Black Hole Infrared emissions: arxiv.org/pdf/0911.4659.pdf
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A star walks into a black hole but it doesn't seem phazed.
The black hole turns to the star and says, "Sir, I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation."
Questn sir, you're funny !
Cool
Lol
star to black hole: i believe in flat earth. your gravity doesnt exist to me, despite the evidence.
Badum-TISH!
I suppose that "seeing" a black hole in space is like "seeing" the wind on Earth; both are invisible, but have effects on their immediate environment that literally give them away - wavy grass vs wavy orbits of companion stars, dust clouds being disturbed vs dust being disturbed, etc.
I’d say that’s a good way to think about it! Most of the things that we observe indirectly in science can be thought of in a similar way.
This comment really helped me understand! A great comparison!
(Clean) water is invisible as well. All we can observe is the refraction of light.
@GamingTSC • The idea is that just because we can't directly observe it through some means does not mean that it does not exist.
Trying to put an illustration on the same level as what is being illustrated will quickly fall apart no matter what the topic is.
Lol
Reading the comments, no the X-rays "emitted" from black holes has nothing to do with Hawking Radiation. The X-rays come from the super heated accretion disks of dust that surround the black hole, heating up as it collides with other dust as super high speeds and radiating light.
It's so cool to see gravitational waves being used to explain things, instead of being the main thing being talked about
fkin nerd
That's how science works: not before we have talked about one thing long enough we eventually will be able to utilize it talking about other things.
It's weird to hear someone call a neutron star "light". I guess that's what happens when discussing the most massive things in the universe-you need to recalibrate your sense of scale.
Timothy McLean well a back hole is light compared to a super massive black hole which is light compared to a galactic cluster which is light compared a mega cluster which is light... well u get the point
something only 2-5 times as heavy as our sun is pretty light as far as the universe goes. There are stars far heavier than that. Neutron stars are however fantastically dense.
Light acts as wave and particle the same time, so its affected by gravity
Anything can be said light in contrast of a heavier thing.. physics and ENGLISH are two different things dumbass
Andrew Frink very true it's black hole n neutron star densities that r phenomenal properties not their mass
Who's here after the first image of black hole has been released?
No, I'm here before it.
Im here
@@Merennulli me too i rewatched it
Me
Hi
It’s beautiful how you make people feel like you are sitting beside them explaining with sketches how the universe works. Love you Henry
Really appreciate this work ❤️
Thank god, no cats were injured this time 😂
well one was orbiting a black hole at 0:22, and exposed cats to vacuum wouldn't be the best for their health
True. And we can be certain that the cat is orbiting in vacuum as the orbit is not decaying. ;)
Faizan memon no cats were harmed during the production of of any videos
the command blocker I guess you have not watched previous video
Oops, I forgot about cats! Quick, grab that one and throw it in the nearest hole!
Oh boy, that came right on time. I am preparing a talk on black holes and neutron stars (mind you I'm a professor in construction engineering) and had this question lingering in my head; how to explain our confidence in the existence of black holes. Thanks a lot (100 times the mass of our sun)
"If it looks like a black hole and acts like a black hole..." But does it quack like a black hole?
blackholes makes a specific "sound" when they merge so actually yes XD
Rob Burgess I know what he ment, but I thought it was funny that he said "if it 'looks' like a black hole", which is contradictory.
Eric, when you see a mirror you know it's a mirror even technically you don't see the mirror itself, just the reflections in it. Same with black holes, we see them by their effects on surrounding.
Rob Burgess If it waddles like one, & swims like one, & quacks like one... well, you're probably looking at what the french call _un canard noir._ ~_^
sound cannot be in space, since sound is the wave created by air molecules hitting each other and our ears in a specific fashion. if there is no air, then there can be no sound.
Sometimes I just pretend to understand everything
One day there will be an astronomy mod for minecraft that will make you understand.
Or you'll finish high-school
quit minecraft please....and start playing kerbal space program its better
NafiuGamer *I playing space enginie btw minecraft is best youtube content bro.*
T A Crafter that will serve u well especially when/if u are married to a woman 😂
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That was such an awesome and visually engaging presentation with the hand drawing. Good stuff there.
Because everything that sucks comes into our lives so easily
The Earth ayyy
how we know they dont adn could not exist. /watch?v=cO79mMx6Ieg
BlueDiamond we don't really know that for sure. A micro black hole for example would pass straight through the earth and even you or me without anyone noticing.
Moshus that joke was bad, you're life is a better one.
Great video!
What did the black holes say when they collided?
Nothing, they just waved.
The waving is the speaking though.
OMG I am such a nerd.... I actually LOL and my wife heard ... asked me what was so funny and tried to enplane. When her eyes glossed over ... and she gave me the "look"... my fate is sealed... I am a nerd.
Underappreciated comment.
@@bryangrossman yeah right
i really like this channel and i feel like i should say it more often.
Videos in this style could never bore me !
My physics teacher from high school insisted that there was no proof of the existence of black holes and it made me really frustrated.
Yeah, right, he said of the critics... nothing. Velikovsky was a religious nut and if you believe that bible-based crap then you're an imbecile. @Carlos, you should report your teacher to the principle, as he is misleading you, right now they're processing the first photograph of Sagittarius A* the 4 million solar mass black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
astrophonix I graduated high school a few years ago but you're right I should have
well actually we only have proves that objects that look and behave like blackholes exist and the stronger of them comes from LIGO a short time ago so maybe your prof was actually in right if he intended to highlight the fact that we weren't sure about them. Moreover blackholes are still pretty new in physics from the experimental side so if your teacher studied let's say about 50 years ago chance are they were actually still debatable object and he could have lose passion in physics from back then and thus he still think about them in this way
+Carlos
"... there was no proof of the existence of black holes ..."
The evidence we have for the existence of black holes, nicely laid out in this video, is, in the end, all circumstantial thus far. It amounts to "we don't know what else it could possibly be, but we do know that black holes would behave in the manner we observe". So from the narrow point of view of requiring absolute proof, your teacher was correct. However, the evidence is pretty overwhelming at this point; we've long since passed the standard of "proof by preponderance of the evidence".
Sometime this year (2018), the Event Horizon Telescope project should produce a direct radio image of the event horizon of Sagittarius A*. If it produces the expected result, it will be even harder for critics to maintain that black holes don't (or may not) exist.
+idylchatter
"Einstein died with Velikovsky's "Worlds in Collision" open on his desk ..."
No.
Feels different watching this once you have seen an actual picture of a black hole
Right?
No it doesn’t
@@paulthomas963 there is. They found it last year
@@yanijen9733 technically we haven't, what we see is basically a shadow of one, we just see the stuff it's eating
My mother helped work on the JWST for a many years while in earlier development. I always feel a sense of pride and increasing excitement every time I hear it mentioned on CZcams.
Well done Henry!!! Keep making new physics related content. I would like to see a video on explaination of standard model. How spin or charge can be fractional etc.
Would have been neat to talk about the gravitational lens effect. Bending light is always awesome. :-)
Casey Mills it's not light that get bent, it's the path that light took.
I was also surprised that wasn't mentioned at all...
Gravitational lensing is a myth. The lensing can be better explained by refraction through the solar atmosphere.
The lens effect is not exclusive to black holes. Galaxies also create that effect.
And even the moon does during a solar exclipse.
@@FourOfClubs You sound like an expert. *sarcasm*. It's clearly not because it's always focused around large masses, such as the sun, large galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and allows us to see either objects we know are behind them or duplicates of objects, or one object that's wrapped around the massive object. If it was just in the atmosphere, then please explain why this is the case and why we don't see this literally everywhere we look in the atmosphere and please do explain how in the heck the solar atmosphere could cause lensing. You sound like a typical science denier, just saying "well no because this other thing" without any reasoning or logic, like when flat earthers try to say gravity is really bouncy force. I just doesn't make sense.
short ans : If it looks like a black hole & acts like a black hole, we call it a *black hole*
source : 3:30 - 3:36 of this video
Black holes arent black. Theyre invisible.
secondPhysics
Payton Tomm arguably we don't know yet! But as we know about it, we'll tell you. Till then, subscribe to our channel to never miss an upload!
Salman Memehood yeah, nice one!
dark reactions in photosynthesis dont require it to be dark.
...
Wrong topic
Excellent video, MinutePhysics is still rocking it
And now that we have actual pictures of black holes, there are still people who don't believe they exist for some reason. Why.
How do we know it exist? WE KNOW CUZ WE TOOK A PICTURE OF IT
Not really. A computer combined data from multiple radio telescopes and generated an image. Even if you accept the images as "photographs", they simply show areas of space with no light.
If you define black hole as an area of space we can't see and don't understand then they are real. If you define them as supermassive impossibly dense objects that make all our orbital calculations work then they are theoretical.
Just curious, how long does it take you to sketch out an entire video? As a math instructor who loves using visuals, it is mesmerizing to watch!
Happy to be a new subscriber!
Thanks to you for teachings this things for humanity, people use their minds to try to understand your videos and that is only good. Greetings from Buenos Aires.
When I first played the card game "We Didn't Playtest This At All", I was so confused by the fact that in their game, you can use the Science card to "disbelieve in black holes" (and get rid of them). I was like, "Wait, why would science disbelieve in something that science discovered and knows about?" Now that I read these comments, I see that many people actually think black holes aren't supported scientifically and there's some huge conspiracy perpetuated by scientists to cover that up.
...I hate people sometimes, you know?
Same
What a stupid comment.
It took how many of the smartest people on the planet, how many decades and how much money to establish even an understanding of black holes in theory and you're going to blame some people for not being able to grasp the concept themselves? We scientifically don't know a fucking thing about black holes, only the effects they have on nature, yet you feel pretty big on yourself for simply accepting they exist, seemingly.
The scientific method literally relies on people thinking what you have to say is wrong, so if you think those people saying something you disagree with perpetuates enough anger inside you to warrant hatred, you're as to be hated. Even if your last remarks were made in hyperbole.
@@TheOfficialDaBoogaloo What? I never said anything about people not being able to grasp the concept. My issue is with people thinking science disproves a thing that science discovered. Very different.
You hate them because they question what you refuse. Your horizon is very limited. Anyone who knows the history of science knows better than to take them at their word.
A parody:
{{{ When I first read articles by German creationists questioning Darwinian Nazi dogma, I was so confused by the fact that in their view, science (knowledge) is good. I was like, "Wait, why would they disbelieve in something that racist psyentists allegedly discovered and supposedly know about?" Now that I read their articles of skepticisms, I see that many people actually think black subhumans aren't supported scientifically and there's some huge conspiracy perpetuated by paid shill psyentists to cover that up.
...I hate people sometimes, you know?}}}
My video on Darwin wanting all Chinese people exterminated includes proof that macro.evolution, your racist atheist creation myth claiming our ancestors were subhumans from Africa, is literally impossible.
I also have videos refuting the big bang myth. Feel free to run from my arguments there while committing the AD HOMINEM, bandwagon, AD VERECVNDIAM, strawman and argument from incredulity fallacies atheists and heretics always shit out.
@@scintillam_dei Instead of CZcams videos engaging in ad hominem attacks against a dead man, how about you provide some empirical scientific evidence that refutes all the empirical evidence of evolution from millions of researchers in multiple fields over more than a century?
(Also, "macro evolution" doesn't exist. That's a term evolution deniers made up to move goalposts. If people who use it are trying to imply that evolution happens, but speciation doesn't, then they'll probably be confused to learn that species don't actually exist outside of human-defined distinctions.)
I am here because the first image of black holes has just been released
Well put! I did my undergraduate thesis on this very topic!
Nice video, explains black holes well.
Came to this video since I wanted to see what evidence confirmed the existence of black holes *before* the photo of M87’s central black hole came out. Seeing the thumbnail reminds me how just a few years ago, we still had no visual images of a black hole, or at least it’s event horizon.
But do you have evidence confirming that the photo really is that of a black hole? 🤔
proofs that science will always advance until answers can be proven or not proven. from theory to fact
@@zilentzap theories *are* facts though. Learn the definition of a scientific theory
@@paulthomas963 ok, what evidence do you have that the scientists lied?
@@ohlawd3699 what else would it be a picture of?
Glad that you brought up gravitational waves as more evidence that black holes exist. The first gravitational wave was only detected in very late 2016. This huge discovery is the start of gravitational wave astronomy, which opens up powerful new ways to explore our universe. Yay!
Up until now, the phrase "light astronomy" was redundant. But no more.
Interesting and informative.
Thanks.
this is a very nice video! long time since last one.
2019 Black hole: We got ‘em
Hey Vsauce, Black Hole here!
10 minutes later : "so, what, is the meaning of life?"
_Music Intensifies_
But, do I really... Exist?
JpMaNd 2000 **insert Vsauce theme song**
@@MeoWHamster or do you?
Please, more content like this. I like hte new stuff but also really miss the old stuff.
Congrats on the support from the JW team!
plz make video about how we measure distances in cosmos for example sagittarius A* is 26000 LY away from us i know little things about it like parallax method but could u make a video about it in detail
I agree, that would be interesting!
You use the color of the star: the color of a star is simply related to how much light is being emitted. Since light is emitted in all directions equally if you step back from the source less light reaches you (like making a goal from further became harder) so you look at the color and measure how much light has reached you and you extract the distance
The size of the Star tells You what color it should have, then You calculate how redshifted the light is. Combine the two and You get the distance.
oh i see like candle which is palced near us will glow more but when placed fr away will glow less so by measuring tht we can find its distance hmmm....that was helpful
Yeah, that'd be one way to find out. The other is redshifting... let me explain:
So you know that the universe is expanding, right? It's expanding everywhere at once.
Imagine a light wave flying at us from a distant star. As its flying, the universe is still expanding - slowly stretching the light wave out. Having a longer wavelength means the light is more red.
From the mass of a star we can't only conclude how bright it is, but also what color its light should be. We check how much lower the wavelength is than what it should be and we can calculate how far away that star must have been.
“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
― Isaac Newton
Water, big water, ocean water.
Isaac Newton was a beast!🦁🦁🦁
"I have a dream"
-Morgan Freeman, president of Zimbabwe
In the beninging..
- President, South Africa.😂😂
FzzLe I think there's a video by Vsauce on that "the speed of dark"
excellent drawing skills , proud of you dude
Again another great video
Comments:
5%'I LEARNED!' And 'Keep it up!'
5% 'LIES!' 'DISPROVEN!' and 'WHERE'S MY TINFOIL HAT!?'
90% 'If light can't escape how are x-rays being emitted???' And the answers to that question.
X-Rays are emitted by the objects that are falling into black hole they are not emitted from inside of black hole
Dan R I know. I was commenting upon how many have said that!
@@trinkab I'm glad he mentioned it though so that I could read it. I think he was commenting that for people like me who wanted a convient answer and not you
@@austinbryan6759 fair enough
Can anyone please tell me the name of the jet stream at 4:03 ?
Rahul Varma print screen in and reverse image google search
Alright thanks.
It's the galaxy M87
Rahul Varma your mum
Quasar?
Not seen those g-wave images before, that was fabulous.
Nothing better than physics. Great job btw
I'm from the future and take my word, they do exist
Btw the first picture of the black hole is published 10 April 2019
@Carlos Spiceywhiener ...
@Carlos Spiceywhiener its a computer created image based on real data, and a fuckton of it
@Carlos Spiceywhiener youre phone photos are also a computer generated image
So glad I subscribed to this
Have to show this to our stellar space loving twins! Big like from the Fairy Frequency channel. Wishing you a beautiful day! X) 🦋
Well, I guess he was right
Nice video dude, you should make a channel on CZcams
Live Fantasy hahaha
Yeah did that hey I think you might be on it
how you are high?
he has
quensoueu1 Good point. You should try commenting that on youtube.
Watched the James Webb launch on christmas!
Thanks for great video
*I'm pretending that I understood everything. Excellent video👏👏*
What parts didn't you understand? I'm happy to try to help!
J.J. Shank I wanna know how do we know black holes are round and thank you for your help in advance
Any amount of mass above a certain threshold always collapses into a sphere, even if not perfectly round (Like Earth) although with the mass and density of a black hole their roundness is basically perfect
Gravity pulls with equal force in all directions, so all objects that are significantly massive will be crushed and squeezed into a spherical shape by the gravitational forces holding it together.
basically he said "if it looks like a black hole and acts like a black hole, we call it a black hole."
Which, tbvh, is obvious. :P
Alright I’m used to these videos being really high quality, but some bits of this video suck.
It’s a really bad black hole joke, ok? I love this channel.
Rainbow Llamas except black holes pull because of gravity. They don't "suck". Sucking occurs when there is a difference in air pressure and nature tries to return things to equilibrium, which is impossible in the vacuum of space.
cwasson68 like I said, it was a really bad joke. I never intended it to be accurate.
A joke can be bad and accurate though. That's a completely different matter.
Actually they might suck depending on the theory explaining them. Differences in air pressure suck because statistical entropic progression creates a force of suction. Suction is not a fundamental force, it simply emerges due to entropy. Similarly there is a theory for entropic gravity that states that gravity is the result of entropic decay of quantum entanglement on the surfaces of an evolving de-Sitter space. If this is correct, gravity would be the exact same type of emergent force as suction.
Succ
Nice video, Thanks!
The second I saw the title, I wondered what you’d say. Now I know that when astrophysicists discover black holes, they’re really just looking at a bunch of calculations. That is super cool though!!
I like his usage of cats
Here's a question. If light has no mass, why is it affected by the gravitational pull of black holes?
I have a feeling this might already be a video, but if it's not - please make one!
Erhan Burger because light has energy and e=mc^2
There is a video! Light may not have mass, but it has momentum and so if affected by gravity.
Hex, essentially everything has energy. But energy or no energy - that's not what I'm asking. I appreciate your reply though.
Erhan Burger energy = mass thats what e=mc2 means
Erhan Burger light is also effected by other masses. It bends around a mass for example.
1:03 I love those really complicated graphs that look like a 3 yo kid was drawing a curve on the paper while running around
Sir it's quite wonderful. I request you to publish a book including all of your videos..
If this guy was my teacher I'd pass the class with straight A's .
Frenchy Ball yep, you could repeat institutional nonsense with the best of'em
" we know black holes exist, because if we dont understand something fully, its a black hole"
Who is that quote be from?
@@sam21462 I don't remember writing this. But I'm assuming I was making fun of the scientific community
@@bradbradleys6091 - Please learn how quotation marks work because all you seem to be doing is making fun of whoever it was that tried to teach you grammar.
Amazing vídeo!
You know that a day is a good day when minute physics uploads a video.
Little did he know a black hole was discovered in 2019
If you refer to Event Horizon Telescope, this black hole wasn't discovered - we already knew it's there. It was imaged for the first time, yes, but not discovered.
@@jakistam1000 it was a theory that its almost impossible to a black hole NOT TO EXIST but we weren't sure if it actually exists it was a theory which was very possible to be correct
What about white hole
what about butt holes too
Only theoretical
』『 racism
Theoreticaly possible but highly unstable. Like a wormhole. We never observed such a thing.
』『 you can also say white holes are black holes reversed in time, observed going from the future to the past
You got the James Webb telescope program to support you? Bro I'm subscribed af
I'm surprised you didn't say a word about gravitational lense ! Yet that's an awesome black hole feature !
This video is no longer needed
Why?
We got a picture of one a few years after the video came out. Well, at least we took a picture of where a super dense object should’ve been but saw a region with no light that was bending dust and radiation around it. Look it up it’s super cool
It's 2024 and it is needed, some people still don't believe they are real
@@kariukiwonder173 I'd say it's still fair to be skeptical when it's still very theoretical and based on another theoretical which is flimsy due to the evidence for it being disproven by that same evidence
Space is just a giant beyblade battle
I am choosing the largest black hole as my Beyblade wut about u
Will you do a video on Hawking-radiation? I've always been curious how that works, specifically why it always has to be the anti-particle that enters the black hole causing it to evaporate and never the positive particle averaging things out.
I just saw a documentary on this and they we're talking about how to solve the Black Hole information problem by looking at Planck Stars. So it'd be cool if you do a video on Planck Stars next
And some people still believe that Earth is flat.ok.
Abid hasan Zidane it's a square
PhoenixArchfiend nope, its triangular.
The earth is flat and hollow. It is controlled by the lizard people living inside it.
it's neither square shaped nor triangular, it's one dimensional
Abid hasan Zidane how is this relevant?
You will never know what’s in a black hole because the knowledge of it can’t escape 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Really, you know this for certain? Have you read "The Black Hole War"?
some dude thats dead inside Physics always let us think outside the box, there are/will be many ways to know what's inside a black hole without delving into it (I don't know any, but I believe in this because if ordinary physics ideas are applied to black holes studies we would find something, like the existence of a duality between the inside of a black hole and something outside, the idea of correlation and entangled particles might be promising, quantum information might have answers, etc)
But it lives on the very surface. Just very scrambled
It's right we don't have any certain about what is the inside of a blackhole but we have a pretty good idea about what is like thanks to General Relativity. If you meant what has fallen in the Blackhole then yes we can't have any clue due to the event horizon
oh my god I just made a light joke stop trying to argue with me I’m just an edgy 13 yr old aaaaaaaaaaa
I loved that gravitational waves were used as evidence. I guess this will happen more and more. Happy 😀
Nice one brother
Since everything in the Milky Way is orbiting around Saggitarius A ,does that mean that this is the heaviest object in our galaxy ?
It is, by far. Very far. But it's not really true that we're orbiting around it. Everything in the galaxy is orbiting around a common centre of gravity.
Thetarget1 or the black hole
Its mostly 'dark matter' that holds the galaxy together, all the 'normal' (baryonic) matter in the galaxy (including Sagittarius A) add up to only a small fraction of the mass needed to stop the galaxy flying apart at the speed it rotates. Stars in the galaxy do not orbit a central point like planets in the solar system orbit the sun. Stars on the edge of the galactic disk move at about the same speed as those near the centre. This is because of 'dark matter', whatever the fuck that is.
How can we know black holes are real if our eyes aren't real?
Pleas get back on your meds...
SPEECH 100
Bryan Grossman Oops, someone doesnt know the meme
he might not play skyrim.... :-)
eh?
this video in 4 minutes does a much better job explaining how we know black holes exist then last nights 2 hour episode of PBS Nova did. That episode was so all over the place
We were watching NOVA on PBS last night and the first question that came to mind was how the heck do we even know they exist. And the explanations on the show weren't particularly convincing or even well demonstrated how gravity waves work. So I am really happy you uploaded this today to hopefully connect some dots.
We can finally see one for ourselves from the image now!
Exactly
Who else came here after finding out about the black hole photo?
There was a Nova episode about this very topic that aired in January of 2018. It's very interesting.
How cool is that it was sponsored by JWST!
You should have been my school teacher!!
"lightweight enough to be neutron stars"
**Lightweight**
It will be interesting to see the Sagittarius A images. Can't wait for those to be processed
Please do a video on the speculation of using black holes as energy source.
Are black holes rare? What's the rarest stellar object?
The Bamboozler I’d say rarest thing is anything made up of antimatter
Black holes are probably the rarest (because they are born from the largest stars, which are the rarest stars...). followed by neutron stars.
Anyway, even if they are the rarest, there's probably millions of them in our milky way alone.
the rarest stellar object is a planet with civilization, there's currently only 1 discovered. ;)
Well, single antimatter particles are not that rare at all, but having them bunch up... sounds downright implausibly unlikely
Yeah with that logic the rarest stellar object are pink unicorn stars. We know exactly 0 of them, just like a stellar object made up of antimatter.
Is anything real?
No
Mr. Dr. Genius I think you're on to something here
Mr. Dr. Genius I guess it depends on your definition of real.
I think therefore I am
Mr. Dr. Genius hey vsauce!
Can't wait for the first images from the JW telescope!
Nova had a great 2 hour episode on Black Holes. IF you enjoy science programs and NOVA please find it and watch it. It was a great 2 hours on the subject.
TIL: There are things that weigh 4 million times what our sun weighs. o_0
The biggest black holes are in the billion solar masses actually.
There's even stars that dwarf our star. One if my fav (15 mil views lol) vids showing it.
czcams.com/video/HEheh1BH34Q/video.html
For a black hole mass comparision
czcams.com/video/QgNDao7m41M/video.html
that's all just a theory tho
It's not just theoretical, actual observed supermassive black holes have had their masses estimated and that's where the numbers come from. Of course it's not a direct mass measurement, but nothing really is.
observed by you? no? thats what i thought. believing cience is like a religion, can reason with em
I played the video in 0.75x. 😂😋
Henrique Aroeira, No. 0.75x means it's slower, not faster
+Mark Neu but if it's slower, it takes more time
But what is time? *Insert vsauce music*
hmmm necessary
Haha it’s funny hearing about the James Webb telescope on the news now, and seeing it here 4 years ago
This actualy helped!!!!