Watch Stars Orbit Milky Way’s Black Hole in Nearly 20-Year Time-Lapse
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- The NACO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope was used to create this time-lapse video of stars orbiting the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole over the course of nearly 20 years. -- Star Zooms Past Monster Black Hole, Confirms Relativity: www.space.com/4...
Credit: ESO/MPE
This has to be by far the single most impressive piece of film ever recorded with the amount of technology it took to make and the implications of what’s happening in front of our eyes
Yes, but have you watched Terminator 2?
@@LyleGlenn I would have agreed if you said “Sharknado 3”. T2 and then this 20 year time lapse of stars orbiting our Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole a close 2nd and 3rd.
Nearly 20 years worth of time condensed into a 4 second clip from a distance our minds cannot fathom. Very impressive indeed.
You should check out the black hole in my wash machine.
Somewhere there’s a universe being build from my missing socks.
I blame Terry Pratchett 🙃
All I see are microscopic entities swirling in a petri dish.
As a boy in the early 1970s I saw Proxima Centauri through my backyard telescope on many occasions. Proxmina Centauri is the smallest of the three stars that comprise the Alpha Centauri group. When I looked again at the Alpha Centauri group thirty years later, Proxima Centauri was gone, occluded by one of the other two larger stars of the group. In that thirty year span, the stars had moved! It took my breath away to realize that I'd witnessed that transition of the might stars in my mere human lifespan.
that’s amazing :)
@@xelscns6004 he didnt say it was gone as in destroyed. He said it was occluded as in behind from what he can see. There are some stars that, be witnessed through repetitive observations, appear to move or change magnitude in relation to past coordinates. Variable stars are an example of this. Currently Betelgeuse has been oscillating its magnitude and from Earth can appear very different on a day by day basis. Besides keep the condescending attitude to yourself, he sounds to be older than you, so I wouldn't be calling him a kid..
Okay, bud?
@@xelscns6004 go buy a telescope, problem solved. :p
Geez we can’t even talk about astronomy without it devolving into personal attacks.
@@xelscns6004 Why are you so fucking angry and rude? What an absolute exhausting and meaningless life you must live. Here's an idea: how about intelligent dialog and adult conversation?
If you feel he's wrong about something THEN EDUCATE HIM OR SHUT THE FUCK UP...KID. Smoke some weed or something so you calm down buddy.
what I really love about this video is how blurry it is at first. But gets more clear through the years of better more sensitive detectors and equipment. That resoleved and clear in 20 years? I can't wait for for the 30+ meter class telescope's to come online.
oh wow.. good point. do you know what the wavy circles around that one star coming in from the left are? this is amazing.
@@thetruthexperiment im pretty sure it's a face mask coronagraph or just a regular coronagraph. The star its filtering out is most likely to bright and blurring out the image. It's either a close star "relative the Earth" or just a very bright star.
pulsar's beam yeah, it sort of fades out and disappears. Haunting stuff.
Aw great spot mate, wouldn't have realised if I didn't see your comment.
Ah yeah, good point. I was about to ask if that blurriness was the black hole bending light like you see in all the computer concept videos. But it makes much more sense that it's just the telescopes they used decades ago.
The star "A2 "takes 16 years to complete an orbit around the supermassive black hole.
So in this 20 years timelapse, we have witnessed "A2" complete only 1.25 orbits; which is actually 5 to 6 seconds of this video.
So incredible, thanks to ESO.
Elder Scrolls Online?
@@xelscns6004 go back to your cave
@@stangarone1624
Duh. Edward Steven Osbourne IV.
NASA's obviously better, we actually landed on the moon several times, ESO= zero landings
Elder scrolls online?
That slingshot... Im surprised the star didnt rip apart due to the immense speed.
that star is pretty far away from the black hole, the duration of that revolution is about 16 years, and it's reaching relativistic speeds (about 2%) in the perigee phase, it's huge but not enough forces differential to rip it apart. Sag a* has already consumed all mater around it
It's not the speed that matters but the acceleration.
The closest approach of the star is 20 billion km...that's like 4 times the orbit of Neptune around the sun...so the force isn't enough.
this is over 20 years genius
@@EstrellaViajeViajero change in speed can be observed so there’s obviously acceleration
This might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Had no idea this video existed. RUclips, what took u so long?
20 years bro
I watched this 10 years ago, do some digging my friend, there are things just as cool just lying around!
They look like particles circling a water drain... AMAZING!!!
I thought it was level one of Spore... :P
Because some are. Like waterballs. Iirc those are called bucky balls, they are stars that circle there but do not ignite because gravity, so you get these big balls of fluid like things that do not burn.
Keep in mind that the stars are under water, star in a jar scientific experiment.
The funny thing about that is that draining water has been used as a black hole simulator.
Cuz that's what it is
props to the cameraman who sat there with a telescope for 20 years and then time travelled 10 times to get it again
It's a 5 second video multiplied 12 times and saved as a single 60 sec clip.
I've seen this and that "algorithm" comment, stolen and abused that many times, it should be a crime.
Damn dude I’ve never seen this comment before! Haha!
ok
He sat there 2 lifetimes and he really deserves that raise
Wow talk about the slingshot effect. That was an awesome time lapse video
Time lapse? This is real time buddy.
The Universe Within of course not dude. This is a 20 years long motion. Stars are orbiting at 2,6% of the speed of light. Hyper fast at our scale butt slow at galactic scale.
@@floxhoa lol, did you actually think I was serious? I was just trolling. 😁🤪
@@floxhoa it even says in the title "time-lapse". You gotta be pretty braindead to even suggest this was real time. Sorry for trolling, lol 😋
The Universe Within At least the next psychopathic anti-troll that passes by will find the area safe
It is truly amazing and scary to know something so immensely powerful can exist while you can't see it. How incredible it would be to have the technology to travel the universe to see explore them and the wonders that exist out there.
@@xelscns6004 I think you misread what I said, Vittay. But thank you for your half-empty outlook.
You won't want to get close to a black hole.
@@xelscns6004 tu hai kaun be teri aukad kya hai, low iq loser!!?
Well they have a Rover on Mars now too and the Pentagon is reporting UFOs so one should never limit their scope of possibilities.
When you think about it more, the more eerie it gets
Why? It's 6 trillion miles 100,000 times away.
Think about the fact that there’s so much mass concentrated in an object that it creates a hole in space which no radiation or matter can escape. The biggest mind blowup is the fact that black holes emit radiation and have a lifespan like everything else in the universe.
@@shogunguy wait, they emit radiation?
@@Nick-tz3ke yes, Hawking radiation
My mind wasn’t designed to be blown like this
thats some good line bro
@@jrhermosura4600 Right?? :D
Me too
Your mind wasn’t designed, period.
Best to save that for other body parts.
Considering the velocity that these stars reach, I can't wrap my head around the distances represented in this tiny frame. That's 20 years at these astounding velocities, non-stop!
If our sun was yanked away like that, would our days be "reversed" until it settled again, or we all got blended and sucked up?
There are so many concepts illustrated in this short vid. Absolutely amazing
Gotta play it at .25 speed to catch all the details
If you play it back at 2x speed it almost looks like there are two small vortices side-by-side near the middle
I think it has to do with mass and trajectory, maybe other factors as well. I may be wrong too.
Watching what it was doing over 30,000 years ago.
Fantastic gravitational lensing in the top left!! Wow, you were right Albert!!
I was wondering what that was, thanks.
To put things in perspective, the start S2 at its closest pass to Sgr A*, which is about 120 AU, reaches 8000 Km/s or 2.7% of the speed of light. I calculated that at that distance, S2 is experiencing a G force acceleration of about 18 m/s^2 from the black hole! That is about twice the G force at the surface of Earth, while S2 is still 4 times farther away from the black hole compared to Pluto's distance to Sun!
The numbers are jus mind boggling.
Wonder how that impacts the star's structure both short and long term.
@@aemrt5745 its gonna slowly devolve and get consumed by sgr a*.
Amazing you can see some gravitational lensing happening!
It's not lensing but an artifact of the imaging method they are using for this.
They did interferometry using radio waves to resolve individual stars within this region. As a result of this, some of the light interferes with itself due to many factors leading to these weird artifacts. Actually you can see how the resolution of the interferometry method increased through all these years.
Also it is possible to spot some artifacts in a star at the left side of the screen
@@josebarria3233 oooh, I see. I was wondering if the stars were actually being "slingshot" or it was just a sort distortion created by the black hole's gravity.
Thank you for clarifying 🙂🙂
gravitational lensing takes more distance from what ive seen, like whole galaxies across space, not like stars within one galaxy
Absolutely incredible. Fascinated by black holes and this is amazing to watch.
I'm fascinated by black holes too 😁
When looking through a telescope and being able to imagine you're looking through a microscope. Relativity.
Look up the Mandelbrot set i.e the fingerprint of god
I get what you're saying. Relativity is such a wild thing. Size is not real it's not real in relation. We are microscopic to even our solar system. Who knows what life looks like at larger scales. Bacteria cannot see our world, so what are we not seeing?
Only real in relation**
I can watch this footage for hours and hours to come.
The fact that we see the star stretch so much is amazing. I wonder if it's the star warping, or the light being warped around the black hole.
Both, simultaneously.
Or both ?
Amazingly interesting being able to see that.
Sphagettification of stellar material. Some of the star is being stripped by the Black Hole every time that star passes it. Eventually it will be completely consumed. It may Supernovae in the process, due to tidal forces of the BH having greater attraction over the star's mass than the star's own gravity. Perhaps this will be observable as a gamma ray burst, as long as we are on the ecliptic plane of the Milky Way we should be safe - those things outshine the entire host galaxy - anything in the path of the GRB is toast. Just parroting what I understand to be the way things work.
@@santyclause8034 Except, that's not what's happening. The "stretching" is due to visual artifacting in the image processing and the nature of the optics used to take these images. At these distances, we can't make out the photosphere of the star and even if we did, the resolution wouldn't be enough to see the tidal bulging visually. Not at these distances.
Looks like bacteria in water
That's what I was thinking, it's like looking at water under a microscope.
everybody talking about the slingshot, i want to know what's up with the stars at the corner glowing crazy with circles around them
Same here and what about the flashes at the edge of the black hole ?
I think that what we are seeing is a mega star storm , an all three of them star that appear to be flaring at the same time , seem to be in the same electrical circuit. At a given time the circuit was floded with energy an the stars went savage.
That is the long exposure photo effect of light traveling through dust. Similar to a sun halo in our atmosphere but caused by dust instead.
@@pedromiguel391😂 No. Stars that are nearer to Earth that have had their glare blocked artificially by the astronomers. Otherwise they would interfere with seeing the Galactic centre.
@@Dooguk i'll say anything to push the electric universe theory foward 🤪🤪🤪 i work in a vinyard i know nothing about astrnomy. But thunderbolt project has me caught by the balls
This is so weird. It blows my mind sometimes. I really hope we will unlock the mysteries of Black holes in the future!
We actually know alot about the functions of a black hole and they’ve been discussed in physics before we had evidence of their existence. The only thing we will never figure out is what occurs beyond the event horizon, using common sense you can assume your matter would be ripped apart molecule by molecule, but we’ll never know. Black holes are fucking awesome.
@@shogunguy not to be the Debby Downer...
But we don’t actually know. We have very well structure theories on the depths of space, but we actually aren’t 100% on all of the facts. Just not too long ago people were debating on whether or not Newton’s third law held anymore after observations of the black hole. But yet again, supposedly these blacks holes are powerful enough to not even follow our relative way of physics. I’d love to go inside one tho when I die so I can be nothing and everything at once.
@@Nodnarb69 Ya had me until........the when I die bit.
Rob Madsen they just call the inside of a black hole a singularly. A small space where so much matter is compressed into that tiny space that the laws of physics as we know them don’t apply. Time might go in reverse inside a black hole for all we know
@@Nodnarb69 That’s true but of course we cannot be 100% about anything. But @sho was not totally incorrect either, we do know some things about black holes. But at the heart of his argument was in the fact that we didn’t just discover black holes thru observation, rather through our theories about the STRUCTURE of space, this toy conceptual mathematical model of space inexorably lead experts to posit the existence of some kind of space time singularity, aka a black hole. The fact that their existence was later confirmed thru observation was most astonishing, here we have this inexplicable celestial body that we’ve not only found evidence for, but also whose existence we postulated in our MINDS as a consequence of our space time model whose structure is such that singularities pop up naturally. This is also a testament to how accurate our models are, whose level of accuracy is made possible only by way of how sophisticated our methods of reasoning, measuring, and understanding of space are.
You can see the front of the star being stretched and some of the material likely being drawn in on it's closest approach.
I'm convinced that a Space Documentarian would indeed be the greatest job a human could ever have.
No, you can't see the star change shape. You are seeing the light be distorted by gravity.
And they just won the nobel prize of physics for this in 2020!!
Hunh :) It was recently because the tele was turned on in 2001 and it took twenty years to record for playback :)
RAW footage is even better. Somebody won the Nobel Prize for this if I'm right.
This would make a good screensaver. It's amazing how the properties of galaxies prevent them from colliding as often. It almost looks like the star gave birth or split into another star where it looks like lightening.
Those are probably red giants shedding their outer layers. The rippling effect is matter being pushed outwards when it sheds a layer. These stars don't visibly shrink in the time lapse because we would need more than 20 years worth of footage to see them shrinking from this process at this distance. Our own sun will one day turn into a red giant and expand out to earth before it starts shedding its outer layers, eventually becoming a white dwarf.
I just finished rewatching Interstellar and this is awesome
No, it's necessary 😁
But interstellar is terrible.
imagine coming back after 20 years and realising you forgot to press "record"
Slowed it to .25 on the advice of another comment, I'd swear you can see the black hole itself flashing just after anything passes it, I'd go further and say you cannsee the stuff being sucked from them and flashing as it goes in. The flasing spec right in the centre never moves, unlike everything else in the film.
Mike Walls holy shit I think you’re right... look closely at the speck and it flashes more as material is ripped off of closely passing stars
@@grantwells4491 Thanks, also remembering that this was taken over "nearly 20 years" we could reasonably assume at .25 speed around 1 to .75 secs per year, it does take anything from .5 to 1.5 years to see a flash. I must say this makes me consider that margun is too big. Perhaps the flashes are a lot longer in the making and a slight coincidence (from some kind of accretion disk business)...? (I'm not convinced) either way I think those flashes are sooo the whole, if you know what I mean.
You sure about that?
@@odomisan no
That's not what's happening, nothing is falling into it. It's just gravitational lensing
this is the most amazing thing i've ever seen.
That's absolutely beautiful
It was quite marvelous. Thank you.
Incredible, especially when considering the size of these stars
The gravitational lensing is what fascinates me about this video.
Truly amazing. I always get the sense that I'm looking at a kaleidoscope when I look at that.
We've seen a lot of simulations of the debris clouds around black holes, simulations of black hole mergers, simulations of light bending around black holes in weird ways. I've never seen a simulation of what it must be like to be on a planet orbiting a star being flung around a black hole orbit. I imagine your entire space time is constantly shifting in bizarre ways and the entire universe is warping in acid trip fashion. Would be interesting to see a simulation of a world like that. Perhaps what it would be like for our solar system to be caught in a black hole's orbit.
You can literally SEE when the budget kicked in XD
Pardon?
@@walmartbag5698 He's right. At the start of the loop (presumably the first few years of the recording), it's pretty blurry and out of focus. Looks like they received a funding/resource boost halfway through and the entire scene becomes so much more viewable.
It's not necessarily budget, but it's when scientists learned they could "sharpen" images from space viewed through earth's atmosphere by using thousands of tiny vibrating mirrors; it sort of negates the distortion of the image as it travels through the fluid of air. It's also why the stars on the left periphery have a "ripple" effect, from the vibrations of the mirrors. But that probably took a pretty decent budget to create, lol. :)
@@etotheroc43 that is amazing. It's cool how humans can just figure things like these out
The apparent acceleration is actually due to the variable bending of the light as it passes through the black holes' gravitational field. While the galaxies do indeed appear to be orbiting the black hole, the chaotic movement is illusory and a result of light refraction. ("Wheels within wheels, in a spiral array, a pattern so grand and complex...")
RUSH!
They are stars not galaxies. They are orbiting a black hole. It is not an illusion.
I can't wait to see what the next 20 years will look like
One day we will be there circling 💫
No we wont, black holes dont work that way...its not drain.
Unlikely considering our solar systems distance since everything is spreading apart from each other. But when andromeda mixes with the milky way a black hole could get flung our direction. We will be long gone by then
We are now. Just a lot further away!
We already circulated that thing 20 times with our planetary friends.
@@flipflop4396 actually it kinda is 😂
Teniendo en cuenta que ya salio la primera fotografía (representación gráfica mas fiel) de un agujero negro y se hizo eco y un revuelo como pocas veces, me pregunto porque en su tiempo este vídeo no tuvo tanto revuelo.
1 año despues y la gente ya se olvidó del agujero negro.
@@abstractfactory8068 En serio? 😉
Más ciencia, menos política...
Perhaps they are actually space moths, circling one of the Milky Way’s porch lights.
It's impressive the change in resolution (after "2 sec" of footage :D... I guess the VLT improved a great deal in these years.)
I wonder how many of those dots are actually stars and how may are "phantoms" refracted by the gravitational lensing: there are a couple of stars that looks like they "touch" eachother.
This footage is something so incredible!
This is the type of science stuff im interested in. You can actually study their movement and trying to understand a patter and how close it comes to scientists predictions of where they're gonna go.
What is the other kind of science? I think it’s all as you described, and you described it well.
@@akauppi2 pedantic
Is this real time lapse video? Not a computer animation? I don’t understand how we can capture this stuff, but it’s so cool
Telescopes. Not any ordinary Telescope tho, they used the NACO instrument on the European Very Large Telescope and created a timelapse from images of nearly 20 YEARS.
From the ESO website: NaCo is short for NAOS-CONICA. It was installed at the Nasmyth B focus of UT4 from 2001 through 2013. In 2014 it was reinstalled on UT1 at the Nasmyth A. It provides adaptive optics assisted imaging, imaging polarimetry, and coronography (only L) in the 1-5 micron range.
The adaptive optics system, NAOS, is equipped with both visible and infrared wavefront sensors. It contains 5 dichroics which split the light from the telescope between CONICA and one of the NAOS wavefront sensors.
CONICA is the infrared camera and spectrometer attached to NAOS and is equipped with an Aladdin 1024x1024 pixel InSb array detector. It contains several wheels carrying masks/slits (including focal plane coronographic masks), filters, polarizing elements, grisms and several cameras allowing diffraction limited sampling across the full wavelength range. Spectroscopic observations are no longer offered. CONICA was not intended to be operated without NAOS, though now observations without adaptive optics are possible.
Word
Protip:
Rub your eyes hard enough and you can see this anytime, anywhere.
This showcases perspective beautifully. Time is relative. Size is relative. It makes you really wonder what's going on larger scale. And so on and so on and so on
I hope somebody puts out a more detailed video of how they captured this. They could explain things like why the light ripples; is it gravitational lensing? Is it some other aberration from dust/matter in between us and the black hole? Or how about the lack of millions of stars in the background? Did they filter them out? Are they just too faint relative to the stars in the image? Lastly, I find it weird that there wasn't really distinct bending of the light from the orbiting star around the supermassive black hole... did I miss something?
This video would look drastically different in X-ray vs infrared vs visual spectrums... this is simply one of many ways of capturing photons over time.
So all these stars are revolving around sagittarus A?
Supermassive black holes are badass.
Looks to me like there's more than one gravitational lens in this field
Alkyl Dimethyl Benzyl Ammonium Chloride looks like that’s due to extreme magnetism from a* there saying it’s strong enough to stop star formation too. Truly mind blowing.
Just imagine planets around those stars, and imagine some kind of intelligent life trying to survive
@@avalos6666 its impossible to survive to that kind of environment because the radiation that emits that black hole is so big
@@walidechchafnaje9812 yeah yeah but like they can actually be strong enough to survive in radiation
Very impressive slide of the star that did that loop.
Right at the beginning of the loop there's a faint star that zips across so fast you can barely see it
This is amazing.
i wonder how fast that star was traveling?
Last I heard someone say it speeds up to 2000 km per sec.
300 millons km/h last calculated
at closest approach can speed up to 5000 kilometers per second
2,5% light speed
The speed doesn't change based on Keplers second law of orbital motion P^2=A^3
It’s cool how you can literally see our advancements in technology over the years as the image gets more clear.
What a time to be alive.
Hope in the future we will able to see Sagittarius A* with our telescope
@@xelscns6004 " sun's mistery " dude you pb have some spare chromosomes
@@xelscns6004 You're the type of guy to believe that the earth is flat
Viπay Puπdir what a closed minded simpleton your comment reveals you to be. Negative, derogatory. Life with you must be pure hell
@@xelscns6004 there is a thing called "spelling" you should search that up dickhead
@@xelscns6004 What is the sun's mystery huh? Delusional dumbass
I noticed the flashes in the area of the black hole (Sagittarius A* ??) - I assume that they are from something falling into the black hole, and the resulting energy released shows up as the flashes... Yes?
I was wondering if that's what that was too. Maybe it is just an unusually bright star in a tight orbit around the black hole?
I thought two things. First that it must be because a lens' error, but then I re-read the video and said "nope". Later on, I came up with the same idea. It is kind of a dragon ball Z thing, but... This is real. And it is quite scary I must say
Seems plausible.
Correct: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/sgra_echoes/
As stars come close to Sag A, the gravity can suck off dust and gas which can super heat event horizon and disk causing a sudden brightening
You can even see the star’s light distort around it
This gives us a different frame of reference to time ,it appears we are living in a petri dish.
Fascinating 🖖🏼
Pretty crazy amounts of gravitational lensing going on there!
Must be ONE lense, because they are flickering in the same frequency rate. So one picture is broken up into 3 to 4 refraction pictures
@@paulpaulsen7777 gravitational lensing is created by the warping of space and bringing of light around the black hole. It acts like a magnifying glass for things behind it.
@@lorpsandorps3729 I know, thank you. But from the initial comment, I had the feeling, he means, several gravitational lenses („pretty crazy amounts...“)
I just wanted to say, that I believe it is just one gravitational lense, with the magnified objects not being perfectly in line, forming several magnified pictures of the object at the same time.
To me it looks like that, because the rhythm of the flickering is the same to all. If it were different objects, they would flicker in different frequency
"Swing your partner(s) do-si-do, 'round the black hole all must go, and promenade, left ..." The cosmic Barn Dance!
"Now, bow to your partner! Bow to the gent across the hall ... "
HAHAHAH ... Good one.
Lolol! Dork. I love it!
@@uncletacosupreme7023 That would be Old Dork, if you please =D
Where is more of this? I can stare at this for long periods of time.
It looks like the star is getting distorted as it nears the black hole. There are a lot of other things going on that make it worthwhile spending time studying this. Amazing!
Instead of playing the same 1 second clip over and over, they should stretch it to 4 seconds and make a more clear screen separating the end from the next beginning.
@ fuck off prick
How about you press the playback speed button and put it to .25 speed. Bam, 4 second clip.
Lol this guy
Wow... as for myself, I was just appreciating the amount of work that was shared with us!
what are those wildbois with wavy spheres at the left hand of the screen?
I think they are black holes I'm not really sure
Either a pulsar or neutron stars
I think there are two... one larger one to the left of middle. There is a distinctive flash that mimics the one on the right, which said flash is the light from a star being distorted by the intense "gravity" of the situation. They are seemingly polar opposites. The one with all the pretty lights zipping around it is quite clear to see while the other is overall dark and seemingly innocuous; which may actually be comprised primarily of dark matter. Don't look where your eyes tell you to look, they will devcieve you.
Visualizing the invisible is half the fun of being a scientist. The other half is the moment you finally figure out what is going on, the moment of true and deep understanding.
I'm sure you know all about it, Peter...
Wow, these are awesome. Thank you 😮🖖🏽
As much as I appreciate the work involved in producing these images - indeed, I say this because I do appreciate it - you really should do a better job of explaining what people are seeing here. A line or two in the description doesn't cut it.
This channel didn’t produce the images and is not the chief source you should get your inform from about the images. They’re just sharing them.
@@drakebehrens195 What I'm saying is that the images represent a great deal of work, but they are not sufficient to explain what they show without context. Sharing images is fine, but if the intent is to inform viewers, some explanation is required. I'm not saying this because I don't know the subject myself, but rather because most people will have little idea what to make of what they're seeing. If this is interesting enough to post, it's interesting enough to explain.
I love how the focus and detail become more clearer as time and the technology advance. These are moments future humans were wish they were apart of the beginning of it all like we are now.
Really puts stuff in perspective.
you can see the light getting distorted by the immense gravity, so scary
This is just incredible.
I believe star A2 is being pulled apart at its perigee; as it hurtles away after its close approach, you can see it trying to reform now that the huge tidal forces have reduced to a non critical state again
an interesting observation is the flaring heliospheres of stars off to the left of the video, very similar to rings recently observed by the webb telescope
Many black holes are undetected, and recently the closest to Earth is 'The Unicorn.'
If it’s undetected , how are you aware of its existence ?!?!
@@mc97635 nobody said that
I dare him to post the twenty year real time version.
It's available on Netflix.
@@Anno_Nymouse It will be in my "recommended" box in 20 years!
This video is made up of photos taken everyday or everyweek and place in sequence to make it a video. I don't think they recorded realtime video becouse the file size would be immense computer wont handle a continouse video of 20years long. Sorry for bad english, it isn't my native language
@@TheDonil don't worry about your English because it's pretty well and i understood everything that you wrote. It's sad that there are a lot of people that believe this was recorded for 20 years lol
@@adonis6766 its sad so many ppl thought i was serious.
A picture worth a thousand words, a video a million ....mere 30 years ago there still were skeptics in scientific community who believed black holes exists in the calculators
So if time is slowed for the star closest to the black hole how long would this have been if someone were (theoretically) on that star?
wow pure gravity
so this 1 clip was just 4 sec (according to my count) and that 4 sec almost 20 years time lapse, so 1 sec means 5 years and thats mean, that sling shot its like 0.55 sec = 2 Years 9 months
but still so scary
I'm not even joking this is why we need nerds! Thanks for making those calculations! Y'all make the world a better place 🌍
Math wizard
The stars here dont seem to be moving in a multi - body system...motion seems to be eliptical two body.
Or am I mistaken?
The "blinking lights" at the location where the black hole would be at, is that stellar material/stars falling into the black hole, or stars orbiting behind the black hole (from our perspective) and their light is being affected/bent via the black hole's gravity?
The poor Aliens Living on the Planets around those stars must be properly scared. 😳
time there would seem to stand still compared to ours
Most of those stars most likely have ceased to exist billions of years ago. True fact. Cool video!
Uhhhhh, no. They’re only 25,000-30,000 light years away. So at most, they cease to exist 25-30 thousand years ago.
Not clever. Your comments need help
Why are you randomly capitalizing random words?
Alternate title: Watch as Bacteria Circles a Common Food Source.
Imagine being on a planet close to a black hole. Imagine what it does to the aging process? It would be a hell of a ride. :)
we need more
it's so simple but so satysfying
and feeling the power of gravity
youll have to wait 20 more years
those stars must be moving really fast in that relative area if that's a 20 year span considering you have to factor in the time dilation of blackholes.
Carbon Night 300 millions km/h approximately
@@fuRRioso omg
You can see in the video where they try to focus it and they realize they are getting out of focus and then they adjust super fast but it’s take a matter of 10 years to get it adjusted
i think thats just technology progression, allowing for better focus over time
This video is amazing. I wonder how long it would take mans fastest satellite to slingshot too the heart of the galaxy and how fast it could move away from this black hole using the slingshot method?
Its interesting to see the 20 year change in resolution too.
Looks like stuff swimming on a lab slide or Petri dish. 😂 Another example of how tiny we are in the universe.
I was thanking the same thing
Getting the quantum level vibe
@@halweilbrenner9926 Yes, you’re right. It does have that vibe. Good observation.
Woah? What are those shockwaves?
Praxis That are star bigger then are own sun
@ they are light echoes, probably caused by infalling material from a stellar or planetary object onto the black hole's accretion disk.
chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/sgra_echoes/
But where is the Collector base
That is pretty cool. And you can see gravitational lending occurring top left corner.