Hope you’re well, Anton. Your content continues to be top class. Love your work. I was actually a scientist on Britain’s first mission to Mars - Beagle 2 - that sadly crashed into the Red Planet. That was nearly 20 years ago now! Space science has always been one of my main interests and so your channel is just wonderful.
Hello, Matt! Imagine someone in far future read your words: "I was actually a scientist on Britain’s first mission to Mars - Beagle 2 - that sadly crashed into the Red Planet" and not knowing whether the mission was manned or unmanned 😀 Nice to see you here. I've been watching your channel for half an year now but I didn't know your what your primary field was.
As someone who hated highschool and found most people boring when teaching, you do a great job of keeping it interesting..thanks for helping me learn after highschool!
I dare say alot of this is to do with yourself growing as a person. Anton is great don't get me wrong but childrens brains can be really fickle in development. Good on you for continuing to learn beyond school.
@@hyvsan9425Some teachers are good at teaching, others, not so much. Really good one can fascinate students about a subject they couldn't themselves to have an interest in.
Since Anton is Pure Gold, large portions of Anton barely escaped falling out of normal spacetime, and were created by one of the most energetic events in the universe.
Anton reminds me of reading articles from New Scientist from back in the 90s but instead of having to wait for a new issue every month, it's like a subscription that just updates itself everyday for free. As someone who grew up on magazines and newspapers, it's pretty profound.
Most stars exist as pairs. Stars eventually collapse into white dwarfs and neutron stars. Many will run in paid gradually getting closer then they get too close…
Long ago 2 neutron stars collided, causing thousands of years of war, suffering, and hardships for a population of apes that evolved 5 billion years after the fact.
Hi Anton, hope you and your family are still continuing to heal Just wanted to say again how fantastic your videos are and how you’ll never know it but the wonders of the universe that you teach us helps keep (some of us) sane and happy enough to get through the day!
I simply cannot comprehend how two relatively tiny (of dense) objects colliding can create something powerful enough to fire beams across the entire space-history of the universe and still be detected sharp and clear all the way here. And if we’re seeing these directional events reaching our little spot, doesn’t that mean the sky is constantly filled with crisscrossing burst-beams pointed in other directions?
This is the same thing I get stuck on. If the 'explosion', gamma ray burst, only lasted for milliseconds, why is there a continuous source of light from that event itself? I can see how we can see things that existed for a long time, like stars and galaxies, but to see something that existed for a millisecond, continuously?? For ever? Is fucking mental. How can that create a 'beam' instead of a 'bullet' if you know what I mean? Lol Is there light that flies past us if we aren't looking? Lol Were we just looking at the right part of space at just the right time to catch that millisecond of light just as it was getting to our planet, 9 billion years later? Hahahaha it's too early for me to be raking my inferior brain over this!!
@@Weeji_420 This was explained in the video: the afterglow relates to the materal thown of from the the dual neutron star explosion interacting with dust and gas in the galaxy.
@@Weeji_420 he explains the afterglow question in this video…but your question about jets is a good one. I’m pretty sure it’s energy that’s been channeled by the magnetic field of the event, to put it simply. I could be wrong though.
I honestly love this channel and how the topics of involved gives me so many ideas. Seriously I’m 40 and my imagination literally ignites with some of these videos you have done especially this one.
It's fun to imagine there's an advanced civilization in that galaxy detecting the GRB that created the elements we need for life on our planet right about now... If you do the math the timeline adds up. Spacetime is wild.
we're just scratching the surface now. incredible things to be seen! I love Anton's videos because each one just seems more exciting than the last with these discoveries haha
Anton i hope you and your family are doing well. You are the reason i've gotten interested into space and science and i´m sure i´m not the only one. I wish you the very best and that you can continue to be an inspiration to the next generation of scientists.
I've always found things like this to be daunting. To think that 9B+ years ago, this event happened and that we have only just witnessed it. Earth, at that time, was just coming together.
Anton what you must understand two factors stand for life with this neutron star collision. 1. They are so infrequent. Thus life gets to play out for a very long time before another comes to close it. 2. Since they are infrequent the stars from the nebula close to it's occurrence have a chance to spawn life through an extended area. Also when you say happens in a fraction of a second, if you then note the high energy reaction flows on for 2 seconds, it is not a very short gamma ray burst but seems to run on releasing rare metals for some time. What is phenomenal to me is the extended time periods clocked for gamma ray bursts from supernova. These stars must be in the range of the very outer limits for stellar mass and have spins right at the limit before detonation. One would think it would take a while before the gamma burnt through to our detection. But depending on spin angular momentum this might be much more rapid than one supposes.
Such events are absolutely mind-blowing. Stellar collisions are extremely uncommon though, I'm surprised they could ever be common enough for heavy elements to be present throughout space.
Hello Anton :) Videos like this are so valuable thank you so much. Finding out Neutron star collisions are responsible for the synthesis of the heavier elements is like discovering our own origins. Also if heavier elements are essential for intelligent life then it makes finding any other intelligent life vastly more remote.
Hallo wonderful person, this is important, as we are wonderful persons, and led / inspired and led by a very wonderful person. I'm deeply indepted - not scientific - but true !!
dang, I literally start feeling better from whatever bad mood I just so happen to be in immediately after this humble dude's videos start playing. I will learn something fascinating here! cool AF.
The ultra dense neutron star matter can only exist within the massive gravity of the star itself. Smash two stars together and any matter ejected will bounce back to normal matter states along with enormous energy release.
Another great video and explanation Anton, Thank you for all your work and efforts in making these for us :). The point you have made that I find most interesting is that these are directional bursts. Which means unless pointed at us we in theory wont see it. My question is then are they more common than we think or presently believe?. We just cannot see the event happening as is bursting and facing in another direction? I am sure there is someone or group out there that could work out the probability of one being directed at us as opposed to pointed in a different direction. After all, It would only need to be a few degrees in any direction either side of pointing at us or even have a planetary body / star etc in between and realistically we would not see it. In regards to space, It is only when we look at what we do know. We realise how much we do not know and still need to learn and understand. Keep safe and well everyone.
Physically we are just a speck. But we are not just random matter the same as can be found anywhere in the universe. Think how very rare life must be in the universe. Even rarer is multicellular and intelligent life. And then look at us. We are life that can look back upon the universe and observe and comprehend it. We can laugh and make art and we can love. So even on the grand scale of the universe we are one of the most significant things in it. And then amongst human life, amongst all those who ever lived, we are all individuals with our own unique experiences. Every moment we have is precious beyond comprehension. Even when compared to the vast scale of everything in the universe. Insignificant? No. Quite the opposite.
@@4saken404 even if you are wrong, and life isn't that rare out there, that only means we are a part of a universal web of life, yet each one of us is still unique, and no one else has lived the life each individual one of us has lived. That fact is what makes me feel significant and yet part of things that are much larger than us. Or maybe that's just me.
@@4saken404 I agree with this sentiment, though I still feel like a lot of my own existential crisis hinge upon our limited understanding of TIME. There has to be some inherent meaning to our consciousness springing into existance, spiritually.. I feel like we are meant to have these thoughts as it enables us to push forward and find deeper meaning within the web of energy and matter that is the universe.
RUclips seems to have taken away my ability to ”Play All” from your channel page, and they stopped showing me Mixes in my feed while watching. This makes it harder to fall asleep listening to soothing science :(
All hail the Almighty Algorithm! May it shine favorably upon your channel, Anton! I really do enjoy your content, Anton, every single day, but it's hard to keep finding new ways to aay so. Therefore, I simply fed the Algorithm. 🙂👍🏼 ❤️❤️
Nice, shared. Per SPIRAL cosmological redshift hypothesis and model: Happened a lot closer, w/in SPIRAL Radius 'i' LY and years ago. So much smaller than thought if competing hypothesis SCM-LCDM. (Where also happened much closer than it is now). Now objects now billions of LY away we see from early 'hyper cosmic expansion day 4' when the universe was denser, so this object distancing (due to cosmic expansion) much faster than objects much closer to us. So just a few seconds during that time can account for weeks, months or years of light trails, reaching us here and now. reference SPIRAL in volume II of Pearlman YeC for the alignment of Torah testimony, science and ancient civ.
Love the channel is there any way you can boost your audio I listen to you about driving and even on maximum from my phone I can barely hear you. Thanks either way
I don't see how anyone can look at the incredibly intricate series of steps necessary to build life in order for the Universe to perceive itself and not be at least a pantheist.
@@rogermiller2159 it depends very much on what direction the source that creates the gamma ray burst is pointed when the event happens. If it's pointed in our direction, the farther away the better.
Just a thought, Anton. Transposing what you said in this video, that the light from the neutron star explosion has travelled 9billion light years, what it says to me is that once light is created it cannot be uncreated. The light travels on. The only reason we cannot see it is because we are behind it. The light still exists.
Are there any techniques to detect heavy element gas clouds in the local galactic region to determine the remnant neutron star collisions early in Milky Way life or have elements likely been recycled too many times or long ago bound in celestial and dark bodies?
I think the clouds would have to be pretty thick to be able to use spectrometry on them and not just pick up whatever stars are behind them. In that case, they'd already be making new stars, I'd say, and that wouldn't help much. I do remember reading that thick star nursery clouds are often full of oxygen, which is considerably higher than hydrogen and helium. It also loves to bond with lots of other elements, too. That's really all I remember. I would wager either Anton or PBS or SciShow would have covered that subject by now. I suggest looking at their channel playlists.
Anton, if you map the areas of the universe where gamma bursts have occurred, could you not discount those areas when we look for planets that may host some lifeforms? .
Also if this is true, that helps a lot in our effort to find other planets with complex life. bcs the requirement to create complicated atoms like the molecules of our bodies seems to be the outcome of these neutron stars collisions.
@@typingwithmyaxe4808 yes and that's my complain. we shouldn't be judging from size, we should be judging from the energy it has. that's what relevant to us rn. our civilization is not advanced enough yet to be worried that a black hole will swallow us whole and put us in a dimensional coma.
Yeah I think about that. And we wonder why we don't see evidence of alien civilization? Um could be that even if they evolved year for year along with humans they are a million light years away there wouldn't be any evidence of our civilization to them either. 🤔 the size of everything in space is hard to wrap my brain around.
anton, we arent expecting another event from that event for another millions years. but is that relative to us or to the billions of years ago and we could see it tomorrow
So perhaps the Drake equation, that allows a guesstimate of the number of potentially habitable planets, should include an extra term pertaining to the proximity of colliding neutron stars as a prerequisite to planet formation and the subsequent evolution of life. The Fermi paradox might not be as paradoxical as first conceived.
You need to create a discord to discuss ideas and theories from the community. I have several theories that I've never seen anyone discuss and I would love to pick your brain on them. My ideas include how we can achieve a type of time travel today and how black holes really work. Maybe the community has lots of other good ideas that would otherwise never be heard by the scientific community.
@@MaryAnnNytowl I'm sure there are many fans of his channel that would love to be moderators. It would be nice to be able to engage with the community about the topics he discusses and ask relevant questions. The problem with modern science is that it is a gated community and hard to get fresh new ideas and mathematics exposed.
It's fantastic to think about these awesome events. I read that SN1987A put out more energy in one second than the sun will have after ten billion years. We could never get enough of what our newest technology can show us. 💖
Just a quick question. If it's Gamma rays that we are detecting here. Doesn't redshift have an effect on this? What were the energy levels when this event happened?
What's the name of the orange and blue nebula at 0:30 ? I used to have a photo of this as my desktop wallpaper years ago ( but without the GRB graphic overlay, obviously ). For some reason, I recall the letter "L" in the name. or "N", i don't know for sure. EDIT ! I found the old wallpaper buried deep in an old hard drive. I:\RESTORED_D_Drive\Recovered data 10-02-2016 at 18_03_38\NTFS 1\Backup\Jason\My_Docs\Pictures\Astronomy\NGC_602_N90_hs-2007-04-a-full_jpg.jpg :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is something mind boggling about events that happened billions of lightyears ago: If we were to magically travel there, right now, what would we see?
What does “there” mean? Everything is moving and expanding, including space itself. Nothing would be where it was, if there was even anything left. Odds are the place where it happened, to whatever degree that space still exists, wouldn’t be anywhere near any possible remnant
That's why I wrote "magically" not "technically". I realize all of your response have a point, but what I meant was: I'm assuming it would be another scenery, we don't know what happened where "there" used to be.
Think you just answered the fermi paradox ... this could potentially change our whole perspective on search for other civilizations .. we aren't alone but chances of another civilization being anywhere near us in distance / time is essentially zero .. gama ray burst being the catalyst for life as it may be
A typical supernova produces chemical elements on the periodic table up to nickel, which is all that's needed for the creation of life as we know it. Supernovae are much more common and an ongoing process in the universe.
I have three Qs: How big of a volume around a gamma ray burst would extinguish life on any planets nearby? Since nothing escapes a black hole, what percentage of the total mass of the two neutron stars is ejected from the collision to be available to create new solar systems? How far away is the black hole left by the collision that created the matter for our solar system?
I love your show Anton and I hate to disagree but I've read that the heavier elements are not needed for life. Everything up to iron is fine. Now, it's great for an advanced civilisation to have them. But it is not known for sure it is _absolutely necessary_ to have them for abiogenesis. The lack of phosphorus in the universe is the big concern. (Maybe these events are necessary for the production of large amounts of phosphorus).
I just find it fascinating that there are no direct HEAD-ON collisions of stars without this orbiting and merging dance that is always depicted. Of BILLION and BILLIONS of stars, what are the odds?
If we have an idea of how frequent these are in a galaxy (1:100M years) can we use the count of this type of Gamma Ray Bursts and use this to estimate the number of galaxies in the universe?
Why would a neutron star collision leading to a black hole release more energy than a more conventional star's supernova that creates a black hole? Is it that radiation from a supernova explosion gets blocked by a more opaque nebula of exploded star matter? Is it that the neutron star collision releases its radiation over a shorter time interval due to the much smaller sizes of neutron stars? It seems interesting to think that both would lead to a similar mass of black hole and yet the neutron star collisions release so many times more radiation.
Hope you’re well, Anton. Your content continues to be top class. Love your work. I was actually a scientist on Britain’s first mission to Mars - Beagle 2 - that sadly crashed into the Red Planet. That was nearly 20 years ago now! Space science has always been one of my main interests and so your channel is just wonderful.
Thanks for your part in another collaboration for the small, blue speck, we call Erf.
they way you worded that makes it sound like you were ON the mission, which leads to the question of how you got back from Mars
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I threw a rock in the sky, it came down and hit you on the noggin.
Hello, Matt! Imagine someone in far future read your words: "I was actually a scientist on Britain’s first mission to Mars - Beagle 2 - that sadly crashed into the Red Planet" and not knowing whether the mission was manned or unmanned 😀
Nice to see you here. I've been watching your channel for half an year now but I didn't know your what your primary field was.
I just subscribed to your channel. That was awesome what you said to Anton. 🙂
As someone who hated highschool and found most people boring when teaching, you do a great job of keeping it interesting..thanks for helping me learn after highschool!
I dare say alot of this is to do with yourself growing as a person. Anton is great don't get me wrong but childrens brains can be really fickle in development.
Good on you for continuing to learn beyond school.
Sometimes I get the impression that "how to make your lectures boring" is an important subject where they educate teachers...
@@hyvsan9425 lol bro the teachers didn’t care about anything they read you stuff with a dead voice..and didn’t care cuz they got paid nothing
@@hyvsan9425 so yeah imma blame the teachers and school system 💀it’s their fault nobody was interested
@@hyvsan9425Some teachers are good at teaching, others, not so much. Really good one can fascinate students about a subject they couldn't themselves to have an interest in.
I hope that you and your family are doing better Anton Petrov.
Since Anton is Pure Gold, large portions of Anton barely escaped falling out of normal spacetime, and were created by one of the most energetic events in the universe.
Anton reminds me of reading articles from New Scientist from back in the 90s but instead of having to wait for a new issue every month, it's like a subscription that just updates itself everyday for free. As someone who grew up on magazines and newspapers, it's pretty profound.
So like a RUclips video?
@@flavioa6351 No. Please reread.
You wonderful person! Thank you for your content. I hope your family is well.
So basically millions of people wear gold rings thanks to these events. Mind-blowing.
Platinum, too. And the iridium, palladium and other really rare metals in our computers and phones wouldn't be here, either.
Most stars exist as pairs. Stars eventually collapse into white dwarfs and neutron stars. Many will run in paid gradually getting closer then they get too close…
Long ago 2 neutron stars collided, causing thousands of years of war, suffering, and hardships for a population of apes that evolved 5 billion years after the fact.
great video as always 👍
Hi Anton, hope you and your family are still continuing to heal
Just wanted to say again how fantastic your videos are and how you’ll never know it but the wonders of the universe that you teach us helps keep (some of us) sane and happy enough to get through the day!
I simply cannot comprehend how two relatively tiny (of dense) objects colliding can create something powerful enough to fire beams across the entire space-history of the universe and still be detected sharp and clear all the way here.
And if we’re seeing these directional events reaching our little spot, doesn’t that mean the sky is constantly filled with crisscrossing burst-beams pointed in other directions?
Yeah, there pretty much are directional events pointed all over the place happening regularly! Pretty cool, huh?
E = Mass x speed of light squared
This is the same thing I get stuck on. If the 'explosion', gamma ray burst, only lasted for milliseconds, why is there a continuous source of light from that event itself?
I can see how we can see things that existed for a long time, like stars and galaxies, but to see something that existed for a millisecond, continuously?? For ever? Is fucking mental.
How can that create a 'beam' instead of a 'bullet' if you know what I mean? Lol
Is there light that flies past us if we aren't looking? Lol Were we just looking at the right part of space at just the right time to catch that millisecond of light just as it was getting to our planet, 9 billion years later?
Hahahaha it's too early for me to be raking my inferior brain over this!!
@@Weeji_420 This was explained in the video: the afterglow relates to the materal thown of from the the dual neutron star explosion interacting with dust and gas in the galaxy.
@@Weeji_420 he explains the afterglow question in this video…but your question about jets is a good one. I’m pretty sure it’s energy that’s been channeled by the magnetic field of the event, to put it simply. I could be wrong though.
Thank you for this content Anton! I really appreciate being able to learn AND get entertained by your videos!
I honestly love this channel and how the topics of involved gives me so many ideas. Seriously I’m 40 and my imagination literally ignites with some of these videos you have done especially this one.
thank you!
I was looking forward to this video, thank you!
Brilliant stuff!
Great vid Anton, thanks for always keeping us updated
Thank you Anton for making this wonderful episode today
Crazy that there's something bright enough to be seen throughout the entire universe
It's fun to imagine there's an advanced civilization in that galaxy detecting the GRB that created the elements we need for life on our planet right about now... If you do the math the timeline adds up. Spacetime is wild.
What if two galactic civs are having a war and using gamma ray nukes ?
Love the video Anoton. You make thinfs wasy to understand. That's a gift.
we're just scratching the surface now. incredible things to be seen! I love Anton's videos because each one just seems more exciting than the last with these discoveries haha
Wonderful as always anton. Thank you. 😁👍
That was an insane distance of data capture with that gear! Very cool to see! And thanks for the updates!
Anton i hope you and your family are doing well. You are the reason i've gotten interested into space and science and i´m sure i´m not the only one. I wish you the very best and that you can continue to be an inspiration to the next generation of scientists.
Congratulations on 1 million!!
I've always found things like this to be daunting. To think that 9B+ years ago, this event happened and that we have only just witnessed it. Earth, at that time, was just coming together.
Super cool video mate thanks for sharing. You wonderful person.
The credits are almost as awe inspiring as the video itself
Anton what you must understand two factors stand for life with this neutron star collision. 1. They are so infrequent. Thus life gets to play out for a very long time before another comes to close it. 2. Since they are infrequent the stars from the nebula close to it's occurrence have a chance to spawn life through an extended area. Also when you say happens in a fraction of a second, if you then note the high energy reaction flows on for 2 seconds, it is not a very short gamma ray burst but seems to run on releasing rare metals for some time. What is phenomenal to me is the extended time periods clocked for gamma ray bursts from supernova. These stars must be in the range of the very outer limits for stellar mass and have spins right at the limit before detonation. One would think it would take a while before the gamma burnt through to our detection. But depending on spin angular momentum this might be much more rapid than one supposes.
Huh, the map of the gamma ray bursts interestingly resembles the CMB. Thank you. ANTON! I've learned so much from the channel!
Anton is such a humble man
Such events are absolutely mind-blowing. Stellar collisions are extremely uncommon though, I'm surprised they could ever be common enough for heavy elements to be present throughout space.
A GAMMA RAY cannon would be a terrific weapon ...
Like a Hellbore cannon. 😎 Have you ever read anything written by Keith Laumer?
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Thank you, Anton!
Hello Anton :) Videos like this are so valuable thank you so much. Finding out Neutron star collisions are responsible for the synthesis of the heavier elements is like discovering our own origins. Also if heavier elements are essential for intelligent life then it makes finding any other intelligent life vastly more remote.
Hallo wonderful person, this is important, as we are wonderful persons, and led / inspired and led by a very wonderful person.
I'm deeply indepted - not scientific - but true !!
dang, I literally start feeling better from whatever bad mood I just so happen to be in immediately after this humble dude's videos start playing. I will learn something fascinating here! cool AF.
I love neutron stars. Thanks Anton.
In a time where a lot these big budget shows and movies are trash, this show has saved my faith in good story telling
Hello wonderful Anton.🖐
The ultra dense neutron star matter can only exist within the massive gravity of the star itself. Smash two stars together and any matter ejected will bounce back to normal matter states along with enormous energy release.
There goes any plans to protect your starship with neutronium armour...
that is a good one: ''...we understund this very well...'''
Love your honest factual content,thank you.✌️❤️
Another great video and explanation Anton, Thank you for all your work and efforts in making these for us :). The point you have made that I find most interesting is that these are directional bursts. Which means unless pointed at us we in theory wont see it. My question is then are they more common than we think or presently believe?. We just cannot see the event happening as is bursting and facing in another direction? I am sure there is someone or group out there that could work out the probability of one being directed at us as opposed to pointed in a different direction. After all, It would only need to be a few degrees in any direction either side of pointing at us or even have a planetary body / star etc in between and realistically we would not see it. In regards to space, It is only when we look at what we do know. We realise how much we do not know and still need to learn and understand. Keep safe and well everyone.
Stay afloat there, Anton
The best part will be the day Anton just says "and guess what, I am a plumber by trade, the whole astrophysics thing is just a hobby".
Do you ever feel insignificant knowing there's just incromprehensible levels of energy out in space?
Physically we are just a speck. But we are not just random matter the same as can be found anywhere in the universe. Think how very rare life must be in the universe. Even rarer is multicellular and intelligent life. And then look at us. We are life that can look back upon the universe and observe and comprehend it. We can laugh and make art and we can love. So even on the grand scale of the universe we are one of the most significant things in it. And then amongst human life, amongst all those who ever lived, we are all individuals with our own unique experiences. Every moment we have is precious beyond comprehension. Even when compared to the vast scale of everything in the universe. Insignificant? No. Quite the opposite.
@@4saken404 great comment
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Maybe we are the black sheep; the only ones that kill each other.
@@4saken404 even if you are wrong, and life isn't that rare out there, that only means we are a part of a universal web of life, yet each one of us is still unique, and no one else has lived the life each individual one of us has lived. That fact is what makes me feel significant and yet part of things that are much larger than us.
Or maybe that's just me.
@@4saken404 I agree with this sentiment, though I still feel like a lot of my own existential crisis hinge upon our limited understanding of TIME. There has to be some inherent meaning to our consciousness springing into existance, spiritually.. I feel like we are meant to have these thoughts as it enables us to push forward and find deeper meaning within the web of energy and matter that is the universe.
So much for the afterglow
I really like the subject of nuclear synthesis. Please do more of these sir! We are still learning where all our elements come from.
Interesting to know.
RUclips seems to have taken away my ability to ”Play All” from your channel page, and they stopped showing me Mixes in my feed while watching.
This makes it harder to fall asleep listening to soothing science :(
As always a Plesaure 💕🇸🇪
We are, without a doubt, star dust.
All hail the Almighty Algorithm! May it shine favorably upon your channel, Anton!
I really do enjoy your content, Anton, every single day, but it's hard to keep finding new ways to aay so. Therefore, I simply fed the Algorithm. 🙂👍🏼
❤️❤️
Nice, shared.
Per SPIRAL cosmological redshift hypothesis and model:
Happened a lot closer, w/in SPIRAL Radius 'i' LY and years ago.
So much smaller than thought if competing hypothesis SCM-LCDM. (Where also happened much closer than it is now).
Now objects now billions of LY away we see from early 'hyper cosmic expansion day 4' when the universe was denser, so this object distancing (due to cosmic expansion) much faster than objects much closer to us. So just a few seconds during that time can account for weeks, months or years of light trails, reaching us here and now.
reference SPIRAL in volume II of Pearlman YeC for the alignment of Torah testimony, science and ancient civ.
Love the channel is there any way you can boost your audio I listen to you about driving and even on maximum from my phone I can barely hear you. Thanks either way
I don't see how anyone can look at the incredibly intricate series of steps necessary to build life in order for the Universe to perceive itself and not be at least a pantheist.
I enjoyed the video. Doing greet Anton
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You can edit your original comment, you know.
@@MaryAnnNytowl old school always feels right 😅
Woah, that's a little brig--
Hello Anton, I was asked why I waved. Anton waved at me 👋👋👋
How far does Earth need to be from a gamma ray burst to survive?
Well, we cause havoc with no outside intervention so maybe we would survive, at 30 light years.
Thanks for the answer
I've heard 13,000 light years -- from Anton I believe.
@@pandemicentitlements5198 depends on what direction it's pointed.
@@rogermiller2159 it depends very much on what direction the source that creates the gamma ray burst is pointed when the event happens. If it's pointed in our direction, the farther away the better.
100 lightyears. But I think if in the path of the jet, much further...
GRB… and I was thinking a KillerNova a neutron star on neutron star merger.
Just a thought, Anton. Transposing what you said in this video, that the light from the neutron star explosion has travelled 9billion light years, what it says to me is that once light is created it cannot be uncreated. The light travels on. The only reason we cannot see it is because we are behind it. The light still exists.
Light fades. Or shifts. But it doesn't stay exist forever.
Are there any techniques to detect heavy element gas clouds in the local galactic region to determine the remnant neutron star collisions early in Milky Way life or have elements likely been recycled too many times or long ago bound in celestial and dark bodies?
I think the clouds would have to be pretty thick to be able to use spectrometry on them and not just pick up whatever stars are behind them. In that case, they'd already be making new stars, I'd say, and that wouldn't help much. I do remember reading that thick star nursery clouds are often full of oxygen, which is considerably higher than hydrogen and helium. It also loves to bond with lots of other elements, too.
That's really all I remember. I would wager either Anton or PBS or SciShow would have covered that subject by now. I suggest looking at their channel playlists.
Quick question it might be dumb.. but would there have been sound from this explosion
Anton, if you map the areas of the universe where gamma bursts have occurred, could you not discount those areas when we look for planets that may host some lifeforms? .
TY Anton. I got such a bang out of this video I almost burst. 🤯
Also if this is true, that helps a lot in our effort to find other planets with complex life. bcs the requirement to create complicated atoms like the molecules of our bodies seems to be the outcome of these neutron stars collisions.
These, and similar collisions, like one colliding with a star large enough to collapse due to the extra mass, too, IIRC.
@@typingwithmyaxe4808 yes and that's my complain. we shouldn't be judging from size, we should be judging from the energy it has. that's what relevant to us rn.
our civilization is not advanced enough yet to be worried that a black hole will swallow us whole and put us in a dimensional coma.
my grandmother was a black hole created by two neutron stars colliding, she made chocolate chip cookies and let me nap in her bed early in the morning
You should cover the recent paper that came out about a black hole called 'Unicorn' about 1,500 light years away from our planet
What a time to be alive
Great video Anton! Hope our planet never is hit by a Gamma Ray Burst, or its bye bye Dorothy.
This happened billions of years ago and maybe right now its home to the most powerful alien civilisation in the universe and we'll never know.
Yeah I think about that. And we wonder why we don't see evidence of alien civilization? Um could be that even if they evolved year for year along with humans they are a million light years away there wouldn't be any evidence of our civilization to them either. 🤔 the size of everything in space is hard to wrap my brain around.
We, homo sapiens as we are now? No. Never is a very long time, though.
anton, we arent expecting another event from that event for another millions years. but is that relative to us or to the billions of years ago and we could see it tomorrow
So perhaps the Drake equation, that allows a guesstimate of the number of potentially habitable planets, should include an extra term pertaining to the proximity of colliding neutron stars as a prerequisite to planet formation and the subsequent evolution of life. The Fermi paradox might not be as paradoxical as first conceived.
Dust like what is around LL Pegasi?
(Readers, that system won't do this as no neutron stars are there, just using the dust envelope as an example.)
You need to create a discord to discuss ideas and theories from the community. I have several theories that I've never seen anyone discuss and I would love to pick your brain on them. My ideas include how we can achieve a type of time travel today and how black holes really work. Maybe the community has lots of other good ideas that would otherwise never be heard by the scientific community.
He has very little in the way of staff, I don't think, so really doesn't have the spare time or manpower to take care of a discord, too.
@@MaryAnnNytowl I'm sure there are many fans of his channel that would love to be moderators. It would be nice to be able to engage with the community about the topics he discusses and ask relevant questions. The problem with modern science is that it is a gated community and hard to get fresh new ideas and mathematics exposed.
Haha I just read bout this online a day before. So for the first time your video had very little I already didn't know. >.
It's fantastic to think about these awesome events. I read that SN1987A put out more energy in one second than the sun will have after ten billion years.
We could never get enough of what our newest technology can show us. 💖
hey anton how about a apophis update
Does a black hole merger also create heavier elements?
Just a quick question. If it's Gamma rays that we are detecting here. Doesn't redshift have an effect on this? What were the energy levels when this event happened?
What's the name of the orange and blue nebula at 0:30 ? I used to have a photo of this as my desktop wallpaper years ago ( but without the GRB graphic overlay, obviously ). For some reason, I recall the letter "L" in the name. or "N", i don't know for sure.
EDIT !
I found the old wallpaper buried deep in an old hard drive.
I:\RESTORED_D_Drive\Recovered data 10-02-2016 at 18_03_38\NTFS 1\Backup\Jason\My_Docs\Pictures\Astronomy\NGC_602_N90_hs-2007-04-a-full_jpg.jpg
:) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What about regular intervals of GRB from a particular region.
Would have been a good opportunity to mention WR-104
Wouldn't it be crazy to see the flash that created and flung some of the heavy elements deposited in our solar system.
High metallicity in a star system is a prerequisite for the evolution of life.
Here is something mind boggling about events that happened billions of lightyears ago: If we were to magically travel there, right now, what would we see?
A super advanced tier 3 civilization probably
What is "right now" ? Time is different from different perspective... That's what Einstein told
@@yancgc5098 Thats what they WANT YOU to think!
They are probably tier IV!
What does “there” mean?
Everything is moving and expanding, including space itself.
Nothing would be where it was, if there was even anything left. Odds are the place where it happened, to whatever degree that space still exists, wouldn’t be anywhere near any possible remnant
That's why I wrote "magically" not "technically".
I realize all of your response have a point, but what I meant was: I'm assuming it would be another scenery, we don't know what happened where "there" used to be.
Think you just answered the fermi paradox ... this could potentially change our whole perspective on search for other civilizations .. we aren't alone but chances of another civilization being anywhere near us in distance / time is essentially zero .. gama ray burst being the catalyst for life as it may be
A typical supernova produces chemical elements on the periodic table up to nickel, which is all that's needed for the creation of life as we know it. Supernovae are much more common and an ongoing process in the universe.
I have three Qs: How big of a volume around a gamma ray burst would extinguish life on any planets nearby? Since nothing escapes a black hole, what percentage of the total mass of the two neutron stars is ejected from the collision to be available to create new solar systems? How far away is the black hole left by the collision that created the matter for our solar system?
i wonder when the last one in the milkyway happened? You said the one that happened near us was 5 billion, there's a lot of 100million segments there
I love your show Anton and I hate to disagree but I've read that the heavier elements are not needed for life. Everything up to iron is fine. Now, it's great for an advanced civilisation to have them. But it is not known for sure it is _absolutely necessary_ to have them for abiogenesis. The lack of phosphorus in the universe is the big concern. (Maybe these events are necessary for the production of large amounts of phosphorus).
I just find it fascinating that there are no direct HEAD-ON collisions of stars without this orbiting and merging dance that is always depicted. Of BILLION and BILLIONS of stars, what are the odds?
100 percent
If we have an idea of how frequent these are in a galaxy (1:100M years) can we use the count of this type of Gamma Ray Bursts and use this to estimate the number of galaxies in the universe?
What happened to the local black hole?
Can you please make pasty red print on peach colored tank tops? 🙏 Pweeeeezzz
with such a small chance of this sortof thing happening would that signicantly reduce the chances for life out there
Why would a neutron star collision leading to a black hole release more energy than a more conventional star's supernova that creates a black hole? Is it that radiation from a supernova explosion gets blocked by a more opaque nebula of exploded star matter? Is it that the neutron star collision releases its radiation over a shorter time interval due to the much smaller sizes of neutron stars? It seems interesting to think that both would lead to a similar mass of black hole and yet the neutron star collisions release so many times more radiation.
After french scientist posted a picture of a star that was really a slice of sausage.
I don't know anymore.
How far away would a gamma ray burst have to be to not be an extinction event?