Spinning Black Holes

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  • Опубликовано: 2 фев 2025

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  • @sk8ergrl2645
    @sk8ergrl2645 3 года назад +5060

    I'm doing my PhD on black holes & I just finished doing an analysis of the black hole spin in GRS 1915+105 (it was actually the first BH in the table of spins you showed). I was super impressed by how accurate everything in your video was! I study all of this for a living right now lol. I also loved the animations - I always have trouble finding a good accretion disk animation which shows how the ISCO shrinks as the black hole spin increases. A fantastic & informative video.

    • @georgesanchez8051
      @georgesanchez8051 3 года назад +193

      Badass

    • @Pa-1
      @Pa-1 3 года назад +87

      Just a thought - anything that travels faster than light will disappear from all of the scientific instruments - or it will be detected as dark/black - since it is beyond the light spectrum... Think about the particles that appear & disappear in quantum fields... These stars & Sun are not mere objects in the sky, they are alive and in fact more alive than a human can comprehend... Many scientists in the past were rarely distracted by their instruments or theories and therefore they were able to bring out revolutionary concepts from the depths of their minds... The more you measure, the more you miss out on the detail... The way forward for the science is to go beyond the limitations of the light... This is possible from within and not without...

    • @jimvj5897
      @jimvj5897 3 года назад +5

      Is it approximately correct to think of the energy released (as grav waves) when 2 black holes collide, as the difference in potential + kinetic energies before & after the collision?
      Do concepts like PE & KE apply in GR?
      Is any of that energy released as EM radiation?

    • @miguelchippsinteligente6072
      @miguelchippsinteligente6072 3 года назад +9

      Tesla referenced human energy 🌬👻jesus christ referenced living waters 💎👨‍🎓👩‍🎓science described water memory 🌊🎭psalms16:24 k,j proverbs27:19 existence psychologically god bless fight the good fight 💖👻💎👨‍🎓👩‍🎓🗽🤍⚖🌪🌬

    • @Pa-1
      @Pa-1 3 года назад +12

      @@miguelchippsinteligente6072 Why God is all about fighting? Good or bad, he/she is still destroying a part of his/her own creation...

  • @smartereveryday
    @smartereveryday 6 лет назад +5715

    My flight is taking off. I want to know about black holes!
    EDIT: HOLY COW MAN I can't imagine how much research you did for this! I've always wondered how star diameters are approximated. Thank you so much for this! Bravo!

    • @veritasium
      @veritasium  6 лет назад +551

      go through the square people pipe Destin! I learned a lot about black holes in making this video...

    • @ViixoDesigns
      @ViixoDesigns 6 лет назад +17

      @SmarterEveryDay Derek's talk about spin made me think about the toilet swirl - please make a video on black holes!

    • @abdalrahman3497
      @abdalrahman3497 6 лет назад +17

      how about Uranus

    • @MParker8200
      @MParker8200 6 лет назад +37

      I have a question for both of you...
      I have heard it said that, due to Relativity, if a person were to fall into a black hole, it would appear to an outside observer that the falling person would slow down and freeze in place at the point they reached the event horizon. If that is true, it would also suggest that time would appear to speed up for the falling person, looking back at the observers. This has made me wonder what the limitations of that time warp would be. Would relative observer time continue to get faster and faster as the person falling continued to get closer to the singularity? Would it be theoretically possible to witness the end of the universe as one fell into the black hole?

    • @austinbuck8108
      @austinbuck8108 6 лет назад +2

      Sorry, Destin. I saw this before you... 😉

  • @Holobrine
    @Holobrine 6 лет назад +4999

    4:57 Should have chosen diameter, so it would be d_isco
    Edit: Please sign the petition in the replies if you support this cause

    • @veritasium
      @veritasium  6 лет назад +1846

      I'll recommend that to the scientists ;)

    • @manuelbonet
      @manuelbonet 6 лет назад +132

      That would have been a much better choice

    • @rodchallis8031
      @rodchallis8031 6 лет назад +46

      r_isco kid was a friend of mine..... music fun is where you make it. :)

    • @fep_ptcp883
      @fep_ptcp883 6 лет назад +120

      Haha, what a _funky_ idea...

    • @MrRolnicek
      @MrRolnicek 6 лет назад +364

      It's spinning and giving off light, it HAS to be d_isco.

  • @svenmedyona4649
    @svenmedyona4649 3 года назад +278

    When I was 17, I listed all my dream jobs (there were 18 of them). Being a physicist was at the top of that list, teaching number two. Despite living that latter profession, I still enjoy videos like this. Thanks Veritasium for keeping my interest alive. I may not understand it all, but I love it regardless.

    • @J4ck7232
      @J4ck7232 2 года назад +6

      You have 69 likes. Thats all I am gonna say

    • @someone-ja
      @someone-ja Год назад +1

      How old are you right now?

  • @dcterr1
    @dcterr1 3 года назад +581

    It's pretty amazing to me that just 50 years ago, many scientists doubted that black holes existed, whereas now, not only have they been experimentally verified, but we're learning about many of their properties as well as their origins.

    • @lhabubu
      @lhabubu 3 года назад +11

      50 years ago was the 1970’s

    • @AboveEmAllProduction
      @AboveEmAllProduction 3 года назад +22

      @@lhabubu 100 years ago, when was that pls

    • @obssaasrat7781
      @obssaasrat7781 2 года назад +2

      @AboveEmAllProduction It was the 1900's

    • @Deltexterity
      @Deltexterity 2 года назад +20

      @@obssaasrat7781 no it was 1922. 22 years is a lot of years to round off. enough time for a world war to start and end.

    • @3starsburningbright
      @3starsburningbright 2 года назад +4

      @@lhabubu Really????? I thought it was 1641! /s

  • @rfldss89
    @rfldss89 6 лет назад +362

    These acronyms are getting better every year.

    • @NETkoholik
      @NETkoholik 6 лет назад +34

      ASASSN is really dope IMO..

    • @mert-by1pe
      @mert-by1pe 6 лет назад +32

      the reason that space exploration is so slow that NASA doesn't start a project if they can't find an acronym for it.

    • @Aleblood
      @Aleblood 6 лет назад

      I know, right? I can't wait for the next season

    • @idontthinkso2431
      @idontthinkso2431 6 лет назад

      I agree

    • @cosmicjenny4508
      @cosmicjenny4508 6 лет назад +10

      +Rafael Santos Can’t wait for “THICC”: Thermal Hydrogen Instant Charge Conservation (no, I _don’t_ know what that means / if it means anything)

  • @erenyalcn9393
    @erenyalcn9393 6 лет назад +1921

    Big stars : "exist"
    Blackhole: Its free real estate

  • @joschkazimdars
    @joschkazimdars 4 года назад +235

    I found black holes always scary, but finding out they spin at insane speed makes them so much awesomely horrifyingly more scary for me.

  • @scottmanley
    @scottmanley 2 года назад +160

    Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but isn't ISCO the wrong thing to focus on here regarding on the limit of the rotation, the ISCO is for matter orbiting the black hole. Photons departing radially outwards can escape for any point exterior to the event horizon regardless of the rotation. For a black hole with a rotational parameter of more than 0.28 photons can orbit prograde in the plane of rotation right down to the event horizon.
    Isn't the problem with rotation parameter > 1 the fact that the kerr metric would create a ring shaped singularity that had a radius larger than the Event horizon, and therefor expose a 'naked singularity'

    • @miguelangelowong6786
      @miguelangelowong6786 2 года назад +3

      Scott cawthon

    • @Brooksandwich
      @Brooksandwich 2 года назад +2

      That's what I'm thinking 🤔

    • @DanielWSonntag
      @DanielWSonntag 2 года назад

      Maybe

    • @x_MoonlitShade
      @x_MoonlitShade 2 года назад +3

      Hey Scott, fancy seeing you here.
      I was wondering the same exact thing. the ISCO is for solid matter, we should be looking at the photon sohere, or the IBCO.

    • @anon69_q
      @anon69_q 2 года назад +3

      So this vid is popping into everyone’s recommended now lol

  • @Lauren-hinrichsen
    @Lauren-hinrichsen 3 года назад +372

    I really wanted to see a picture of the "naked singularity" and had it typed into google before I realized that's probably not gonna give me the exact results I want

    • @bobjones7908
      @bobjones7908 3 года назад +16

      I think you were imagining a naked black hole.

    • @Leruster
      @Leruster 3 года назад +41

      Did you try "I'm feeling lucky" option? ;)

    • @leociresi4292
      @leociresi4292 3 года назад +1

      If Tetrimidion and Invictus collided,

    • @DrakyHRT
      @DrakyHRT 3 года назад +3

      I think the only chance we would get is if for some reason light escapes from the black holes when they collide, as the event would be quite chaotic.

    • @puntana
      @puntana 3 года назад +1

      Black hole Chan lmfao

  • @exoplanets
    @exoplanets 6 лет назад +281

    Love your videos about space !

    • @pauljohnson5472
      @pauljohnson5472 6 лет назад +2

      me too!

    • @Killatomate85
      @Killatomate85 6 лет назад +1

      love all these idiots believing NASA's lies.

    • @_K3PLR
      @_K3PLR 6 лет назад +1

      @@Killatomate85 Love watching you being an idiot

    • @Mark-Wilson
      @Mark-Wilson 3 года назад

      @@Killatomate85 love all those idiots believing we're in a space snowglobe

  • @joemomma4826
    @joemomma4826 3 года назад +1933

    “Black holes are some of the simplest objects in the universe”
    I really really hate editing comments but it seems a good amount of you don't realize I was quoting him in the literal same video and have tried disagreeing

    • @amardiplokhande3736
      @amardiplokhande3736 3 года назад +19

      Absolutely!!!

    • @abedgamer7773
      @abedgamer7773 3 года назад +8

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @IluvatarEru
      @IluvatarEru 3 года назад +7

      Duh I knew that

    • @umairbutt1355
      @umairbutt1355 3 года назад +131

      From the perspective of general relativity, they are quite simple actually 😁 one of the simplest solutions to einsteins field equations.
      Conversely, real black holes with all their quantum weirdness that we don't really know much about, are probably the most complex things out there 😂

    • @FisTheDucc
      @FisTheDucc 3 года назад +35

      outside, yes but inside HELL NO

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 года назад +650

    I took up astronomy in college and they never talked about interesting stuff like this

    • @MakDidlt
      @MakDidlt 4 года назад +17

      the teach u what ur not suppose to know lol

    • @tigerpjm
      @tigerpjm 4 года назад +158

      Probably because astronomy and astrophysics are two very different things...

    • @SlashoftheGreatnessOfficial
      @SlashoftheGreatnessOfficial 4 года назад +23

      astronomy and astrophysics go hand in hand

    • @tigerpjm
      @tigerpjm 4 года назад +132

      @@SlashoftheGreatnessOfficial
      Yes.
      Maths and physics go hand in hand.
      But maths isn't physics and and physics isn't maths. I didn't learn Newtonian motion in maths class any more than I learnt Pythagoras theorem in physics class.
      Nor did anyone else.
      They're separate disciplines.... like astronomy and astrophysics.
      I would have hoped that someone who actually passed an Astronomy course would understand the difference by simple dint of having passed an Astronomy course...

    • @HassanAli-sy8yb
      @HassanAli-sy8yb 4 года назад +10

      Why are you here

  • @Viper6-MotoVlogger
    @Viper6-MotoVlogger 6 лет назад +391

    Black holes are both amazing and scary at the same time.

    • @Krisztian5HUN
      @Krisztian5HUN 6 лет назад +33

      but gloryholes are just simply amazing, not scary...

    • @zodiacfml
      @zodiacfml 6 лет назад +5

      Our universe is a black hole

    • @benbooth2783
      @benbooth2783 6 лет назад +2

      @@zodiacfml White hole not a black hole as we are moving away from the singularity not towards it.

    • @benbooth2783
      @benbooth2783 6 лет назад +10

      If you pass through the event horizon of a black hole, the reason you cant escape is that the space-time curvature is so extreme that all paths leads to the singularity, which ever way you looked you would see the singularity, it would look like it was smeared into a shell around you.
      The big bang is a singularity, as we look farther away we look further back in time, look far enough and we can see back to the big bang (we are stopped from being able to see it due to the surface of last scattering), you would see the big bang in any direction you looked, it would be smeared into a shell around you. The only difference is that we are moving away from the singularity, like a black hole going backwards in time, which is called a white hole.

    • @Soelbro
      @Soelbro 6 лет назад +2

      @@benbooth2783 So does that explain the background cosmic radiation that appears to be constant? The background cosmic radiation is just that shell you describe? Or rather the "surface of the last scattering" ?

  • @arifsyah46
    @arifsyah46 6 лет назад +1950

    God really does know how to make extreme beyblades

    • @putyograsseson
      @putyograsseson 6 лет назад +23

      lmao

    • @sachinshirke388
      @sachinshirke388 5 лет назад +5

      @ROZELL GABRIEL you really deserve a like 😂

    • @samuel70315
      @samuel70315 5 лет назад +10

      @ROZELL GABRIEL cues Bayblade team song while zooming out into the Galaxy, only to see god like beings battling with Milky ways

    • @disrupt94
      @disrupt94 5 лет назад +1

      @Spiderman would that not require the angular momentum to be greater than the combined gravitational pull?

    • @mrsnoo86
      @mrsnoo86 5 лет назад

      lul

  • @Mark1Mach2
    @Mark1Mach2 2 года назад +37

    Vertasium, I can't thank you enough for these wonderful science videos. For engineers and science loving people like myself, it's very hard to find good quality content as freely available as you make them and on top of it you make them easy to understand, fun and damn interesting. Thank you so much and I hope you continue to make such wonderful videos.

  • @unvergebeneid
    @unvergebeneid 5 лет назад +177

    "This is called a naked singularity and it makes a lot of scientists uncomfortable." Prudes!

  • @Cheranetube
    @Cheranetube 5 лет назад +560

    I am curious how someone could dislike this video. Perhaps they have trouble understanding it, the burden of knowledge is too much for them, or perhaps they too, are really uncomfortable with naked singularities.

    • @shaunjames1414
      @shaunjames1414 5 лет назад +11

      Why not both?

    • @macaroane
      @macaroane 5 лет назад +85

      They believe the earth is flat and the sky is a dome hologram

    • @michaelwicker9538
      @michaelwicker9538 5 лет назад +15

      @@macaroane don't forget that Geniuses days the Earth 5.8k years old, meaning we couldn't possibly see further than that many light years.

    • @Firesmegma
      @Firesmegma 5 лет назад +2

      Or flat earthers..

    • @MrSir-rq8qt
      @MrSir-rq8qt 5 лет назад +2

      That's the oldest trick in the book. Trying to insult the intelligence of others to discredit them and humiliate them into going along with whatever lame MS says. Not really any more though, every will know soon

  • @becca4143
    @becca4143 3 года назад +15

    Your channel is one of the biggest reasons I’ve decided to finally go back to school, and for certain. No more maybe in a year or maybe next years, I’m going this fall for certain :) . I’m planning on getting a bio-engineering degree, but if I can have it my way instead of time’s way, I hope to get many different scientific degrees, as theres no single subject I can just dedicate my only KNOWABLE life to. Thank you for all the videos you’ve released, and for reminding me of why I fell in love with science as a kid. It’s like I found my passion after all these years, after school and general life circumstances seemed to just be determined to beat it out of me 😭 I will come back to this channel one day!! When things are different, but for the better.

    • @kiiturii
      @kiiturii 9 месяцев назад

      how's it going now

  • @socoolyeah
    @socoolyeah 7 месяцев назад +3

    i am really late on this, and theoretical physics are not my expertise but you are really hooking me into the field, i also love how many people who actually work in the field are giving you kudos for your explanation. thank you for your service!

  • @micaiahweaver1346
    @micaiahweaver1346 5 лет назад +692

    Derek should do a co-lab with Kurzgesagt on black holes.

    • @seanld444
      @seanld444 5 лет назад +33

      Collab. And yes, I agree. I love their animations.

    • @castroploiin
      @castroploiin 5 лет назад +23

      Lè Kurzegesagt presents, Derek explains

    • @daos3300
      @daos3300 5 лет назад +5

      @Micaiah Weaver hmm.. nah.

    • @aedenthegreatyt
      @aedenthegreatyt 4 года назад +5

      YES

    • @aaronseet2738
      @aaronseet2738 4 года назад +8

      He needs to get his own bird avatar first.

  • @Mastr1ani
    @Mastr1ani 5 лет назад +7

    Thank you for providing content that is quite possibly the best available anywhere on this platform. Well done and greatly appreciated.

  • @EventHorizon7
    @EventHorizon7 6 лет назад +147

    Not only a new veritasium video, but a new one about BLACK HOLES? is it my birthday?

  • @Cybernaut551
    @Cybernaut551 3 года назад +13

    I am in awe of your videos and how you masterfully explain them by not only teaching a class but the whole internet.

  • @quahntasy
    @quahntasy 6 лет назад +95

    These acronyms are getting better every freakin year.

  • @alberteinstein6040
    @alberteinstein6040 6 лет назад +1865

    The real question is
    Does the universe spin

    • @cloudpoint0
      @cloudpoint0 6 лет назад +159

      No, it is stuck facing one direction, the outside.

    • @cloudpoint0
      @cloudpoint0 6 лет назад +269

      ​@@davidroyer8516
      Angular momentum can only be assessed relative to something else around it that you consider stationary. Ultimately you run into the need to either 1) have an outside as a reference, which doesn’t exist for the universe, or 2) to define the universe itself as stationary, in which case the total angular momentum must add to zero (unless you can find a way to violate the conservation of angular momentum law).
      Either way, the universe does not spin.

    • @cloudpoint0
      @cloudpoint0 6 лет назад +59

      @Liam Boyle
      Yes there is galactic spin, but the central black hole is not exactly at the center of the Milky Way (just close). The galaxy as a whole has some kind of slow spin about its true center. The gas, stars and the central black hole all orbit around this true center at a faster speed than the galaxy as a whole spins, but with different speeds for each object, slower as you move away from the center. This means objects pass into and out of the galaxy’s spiral arms over time. Other galaxies all spin at different rates and in different orientations to our galaxy. Same for planetary systems within our galaxy. Some stars even orbit within smaller circles inside their big circle around our galaxy. It’s evidence of an unpredictable universe designer.

    • @ArcaneTurbulence
      @ArcaneTurbulence 6 лет назад +38

      It's all relative.

    • @omnipedia-tech
      @omnipedia-tech 6 лет назад +24

      @Liam Boyle You're absolutely right! :) The European Southern Observatory in Chile watched stars orbiting the the black hole at the center of the Milky Way this past year, viewable here: ruclips.net/video/TF8THY5spmo/видео.html ... The folks here though are wondering about whether the universe in general is rotating, which maybe remains an open question. I suppose it depends on whether the Milky Way and other galaxies rotate about some universal center. As I understand the Big Bang Theory, there is no implied center to the universe. Expansion doesn't so much radiate out from a single point, rather it is as if we are on the surface of an expanding balloon. I would also suppose that we have much to learn still about the nature of the expansion of the universe, the distribution of dark matter, why the higgs is lighter than expected, the specifics of quantum gravity, and a host of other questions before we can make any declarations. It's fun to think about though :)

  • @Xenon_811
    @Xenon_811 3 года назад +185

    Aliens : sending some flashes in space to see if anyone is out there
    Scientist : Nah ! Its a black hole

    • @sageoverheaven
      @sageoverheaven 3 года назад +2

      I was looking for this comment 💀

    • @emperorsascharoni9577
      @emperorsascharoni9577 3 года назад +8

      Alien making some selfies at blackhole.

    • @AmitSharma-cg9gf
      @AmitSharma-cg9gf 3 года назад +3

      I thought it was bill gates sending beams to harm humanity

    • @albussr1589
      @albussr1589 3 года назад

      Wait, Bill Gates moved into a Black Hole now?

    • @antaress8128
      @antaress8128 2 года назад +2

      Since regular pulses are common in the Universe and occur naturally, aliens, who are trying to contact another intelligent life, would have sent some flashes in a distinct pattern - like for example 1 flash at every prime number seconds.

  • @rameenana
    @rameenana 2 года назад +8

    This is the coolest thing I’ve learned about space in a while. Thanks man. You and your team do a pretty cool job.

  • @pro_wie8299
    @pro_wie8299 5 лет назад +1218

    *So this happened 290 million years ago ?*

  • @javimsfc
    @javimsfc 6 лет назад +556

    I miss free Vsauce vídeos
    Edit: I already now that DONG exists, thanks

    • @wabbasMEpern
      @wabbasMEpern 6 лет назад +25

      His content is worth paying for. No?

    • @rexregisanimi
      @rexregisanimi 6 лет назад +114

      @@wabbasMEpern Just because something is worth the price doesn't mean a particular person can pay for it (or that they should even be charged for it).

    • @alsayedjalal
      @alsayedjalal 6 лет назад +97

      Is that what he's been doing?! Man, i just thought he stopped making videos.

    • @javimsfc
      @javimsfc 6 лет назад +2

      Jalal M yes 😓

    • @javimsfc
      @javimsfc 6 лет назад +13

      Christopher Bross exactly, i cant pay 3€ for each video

  • @connarcomstock161
    @connarcomstock161 6 лет назад +182

    *Maximum Spin* sounds like an 80's anime

  • @namansewani
    @namansewani 11 месяцев назад +5

    'naked singularity make scientists uncomfortable'
    scientists got no game

  • @domainofscience
    @domainofscience 6 лет назад +35

    Sweet library dude!

    • @TheBankaiMusic
      @TheBankaiMusic 6 лет назад +1

      That's
      The John Rylands Library in Manchester UK

    • @TucsonDude
      @TucsonDude 3 года назад +1

      LOL...it's a custom background image.

    • @jaydutta7711
      @jaydutta7711 3 года назад

      @@TucsonDude 😂😂😂🤣

    • @MuniraIbrahim-c1g
      @MuniraIbrahim-c1g 11 месяцев назад

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    • @MuniraIbrahim-c1g
      @MuniraIbrahim-c1g 11 месяцев назад

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  • @nilessamaniego2783
    @nilessamaniego2783 6 лет назад +41

    if a lot of black holes are dormant, traveling through space is like playing mine sweeper lol

    • @penguinexpress12
      @penguinexpress12 6 лет назад

      Niles Samaniego Black holes are really tiny though

    • @christopherjones7191
      @christopherjones7191 6 лет назад +1

      @@penguinexpress12 their effects aren't

    • @huaen8880
      @huaen8880 6 лет назад +3

      @@christopherjones7191 They aren't. Not if you are travelling through space, anyway. Black holes are extremely uncommon compared to other stellar objects. This means it's already very unlikely to find one, especially since space is so incredibly empty in the first place. After you find a black hole, you need to get extremely close to it to experience its tidal forces. Even if you approached a sun-mass black hole at 1au, you would experience nothing more than the gravitational pull our Earth experiences. For stellar-mass black holes, you would need to get very close - probably within the radius of the sun - to start experiencing tidal effects that can be seriously harmful.

    • @christopherjones7191
      @christopherjones7191 6 лет назад +1

      @@huaen8880 I agree with you.
      My intention for that sentence was that while the black hole itself was infitesimally small, its gravitational effects were still much greater than their small size would suggest.

    • @penguinexpress12
      @penguinexpress12 6 лет назад

      Christopher Jones but it would only be the same gravitational pull as a star of the same mass

  • @Eudomac99
    @Eudomac99 6 лет назад +312

    Why are you in Dumbledore's study?

    • @indigofenrir7236
      @indigofenrir7236 6 лет назад +13

      Checking out all those reused phonebooks.

    • @C345OFR
      @C345OFR 6 лет назад +1

      What's interesting to me is that - at my rate of reading - that's a lifetime's worth of books. Hope there are no boring ones!

    • @TheBankaiMusic
      @TheBankaiMusic 6 лет назад +7

      That's
      The John Rylands Library in Manchester UK

    • @evagreen1450
      @evagreen1450 6 месяцев назад

      Isaak and blow dumbledores wand xdddd

    • @goliathprojects7354
      @goliathprojects7354 2 дня назад

      Why are you not?

  • @TheDirtyRodriguez
    @TheDirtyRodriguez 3 года назад +20

    Thank you so much for this content and all the other stuff your channels brought to me/us! With all the chaos in the world and our small little habitats these small lessons soothe me down and bring back a smile on my face. Only my kids and music have a similar effect on me.

  • @viper8588
    @viper8588 5 лет назад +353

    2:18 that moment when you can't understand the simplest objects in the universe

    • @ssm-sf8by
      @ssm-sf8by 5 лет назад +16

      Welcome to phisics lol

    • @chargen7224
      @chargen7224 5 лет назад

      in set theory, you have sets of this , Ruyssels and so this disturbs me even more

    • @louie_24
      @louie_24 5 лет назад

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @Kaos1382
      @Kaos1382 4 года назад +3

      The reason they're "simple" is because it's just pure mass. In theory of course.

    • @aaebsssb9914
      @aaebsssb9914 4 года назад

      Kaos1382 Everything is pure mass except things that move at the speed of light, like photons which have no mass

  • @MagnakayViolet
    @MagnakayViolet 6 лет назад +13

    At some point, I lost focus of the terminology and was sucked into his voice. Then I hit the isco and pulled myself back together. I feel brighter now.

  • @Gamer-wu3ty
    @Gamer-wu3ty 6 лет назад +246

    Our sun: Level 1 crook
    Spinning black hole: level 99 mafia boss

  • @georgegoughnour1509
    @georgegoughnour1509 Год назад

    What’s remarkable is all of the events in our galaxy, alone. With the events being farther than we can explore, or events happening once in a blue moon that are happening right now. And we’ve missed them completely.

  • @BabakoSen
    @BabakoSen 6 лет назад +65

    Just FYI, redshift can only be used to calculate distance at very large extra-galactic distances where the expansion of the universe accounts for most of the object's observed motion. At distances where we can resolve individual stars from stellar clusters (as opposed to resolving individual stellar discs), which we can only do within our galaxy and some members of the local galactic group, cosmological redshift can't be used because the Doppler shift primarily traces the stars' peculiar motions within their galaxies or of their host galaxies through their group or cluster. We can use stellar spectra to gauge a star's distance, but to do so we have to compare the spectra to stellar evolutionary models to distinguish dwarfs and giants of the same temperatures and estimate the star's intrinsic luminosity at that stage in its life. For isolated stars (not part of a multiple system or cluster but free-moving in the galactic potential), stellar evolutionary models are often the best distance-estimating tools available, and that's not saying a whole lot.

    • @m.c.v.a.8586
      @m.c.v.a.8586 6 лет назад +5

      I kind of understood the first half of your comment, then I got lost :(.... men I wish I could have studied astrophysics *sigh*

    • @tampauser6879
      @tampauser6879 6 лет назад

      "Free-moving in the galactic potential..." what a beautiful idea. What a lovely turn of phrase. Did you make that up?

    • @BabakoSen
      @BabakoSen 6 лет назад +3

      @@tampauser6879 it's a succinct definition of the term we'd use, "field star", although I evidently sacrificed too much clarity for brevity. "Galactic potential" was short for the potential well of the Milky Way. We use the term "potential well" a lot in the field to describe the gravitational sphere of influence of a mass or (more often) group of n masses where n may be a large number. "Potential" comes from "gravitational potential energy", and the "well" part comes from the way we often try to describe intuitively how massive objects deform space according to relativity. The usual metaphor is a bowling ball on a tautly stetched sheet: the ball creates a depression or "well" that makes smaller objects dropped on the same sheet fall toward it.

    • @PaskalS
      @PaskalS 6 лет назад +1

      Are there galaxies from the local group from which we can identify individual stars? I thought that's only possible for within the Milky Way...

    • @BabakoSen
      @BabakoSen 6 лет назад +3

      @@PaskalS some particularly massive stars can be picked out in the Magellanic Clouds and the sparse outskirts of the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies. It's hard af, though.

  • @Pacer-456
    @Pacer-456 6 лет назад +52

    lol. the rendition at 1:24-1:25 has been my computer background for years :D I also put my bin at the black hole with all the shortcuts around it.

    • @feynstein1004
      @feynstein1004 6 лет назад +2

      That's really clever 😂

    • @michaelbuckers
      @michaelbuckers 6 лет назад

      That's not what black holes look like. Your life have been a lie.

    • @Pacer-456
      @Pacer-456 6 лет назад

      @@michaelbuckers Do black holes really 'look' like anything if we can't see any light bouncing of them? (also: *has been a lie.)

    • @michaelbuckers
      @michaelbuckers 6 лет назад

      @@Pacer-456 You thought that was a smart remark, but joke's on you, black holes emit hawking radiation so they do look like something! Also clearly it was about surroundings of the black hole and the shape of its shadow. None of these images in the video are accurate.

    • @Pacer-456
      @Pacer-456 6 лет назад

      @@michaelbuckers What do you mean with the shape of its shadow? Also, of course I knew it wasn't a real picture. He even mentioned it too in the video that they are artists' renditions.

  • @bilimbilin
    @bilimbilin 6 лет назад +341

    So can we assume the black hole "gargantua" in interstellar fed on a star at some point too?
    Cool. Great video by the way ^^

    • @motosbkbr
      @motosbkbr 6 лет назад +23

      Yes!

    • @NukeMyHouse
      @NukeMyHouse 6 лет назад +90

      Yup, and Gargantua was also a spinning black hole! Movie logic dictated that it spun at near the theoretical maximum (as that's the only way time would have worked like it did on Miller's planet... that, and Miller's planet being much closer than was depicted), but the final on-screen render showed the black hole rotating at 60% of the maximum instead, as 99% would have caused Gargantua to look a bit lopsided and distorted, which may have confused viewers (as opposed to looking only slightly lopsided).

    • @amber1862
      @amber1862 6 лет назад +76

      Gargantua fed on love. It is believed the spin of Gargantua was exponentially fuelled by Christopher Nolan's ego.

    • @srsjackson
      @srsjackson 6 лет назад +37

      @@NukeMyHouse I see someone have read "The Science of Interstellar".

    • @NukeMyHouse
      @NukeMyHouse 6 лет назад +26

      It was a great read for sure.

  • @Trackandshield
    @Trackandshield Год назад +17

    So that star was blinking every 131 seconds means that it was revolving around black hole every 130 seconds??😮😮

  • @tghilkrad8012
    @tghilkrad8012 5 лет назад +191

    Ah finally a Challenge for my *BEyBlAdE*
    Our battle will be legendary

    • @SupereKrakersik
      @SupereKrakersik 4 года назад +4

      funniest comment here

    • @Shrooblord
      @Shrooblord 4 года назад +1

      Hahaha I laughed more at this than I thought I would've thx

  • @kanmedlife2494
    @kanmedlife2494 4 года назад +14

    3:45 Who else loves this iconic background sound !

  • @tykobray4132
    @tykobray4132 4 года назад +35

    People on earth: "The sun doesnt go around the earth! The earth moves around the sun!"
    People on blackholes:

  • @thelunaticcultist5157
    @thelunaticcultist5157 3 года назад +15

    Time: Is linear and always passes at the same rate
    The Ergosphere: *_”I’m about to end this man’s whole career”_*

  • @DANGJOS
    @DANGJOS 6 лет назад +24

    This is the content I subscribed for haha.

  • @JimmyHey
    @JimmyHey 3 года назад +39

    Damn, that Black Hole spaghettified that star real good

    • @UrNewStepdad91
      @UrNewStepdad91 3 года назад +3

      Starghetti

    • @leociresi4292
      @leociresi4292 3 года назад

      So why didn’t Cooper become S’ghetti?

    • @costco_pizza
      @costco_pizza 3 года назад

      @@UrNewStepdad91 Yeah but what about UY Scuti?? I bet these black holes won't look so menacing next to the colossal UY Scuti!

    • @quantumblauthor7300
      @quantumblauthor7300 3 года назад

      @@leociresi4292 larger, more gentle black hole + creative liberties

    • @snowarmth
      @snowarmth 8 месяцев назад +1

      Slurp.

  • @Sirinwara
    @Sirinwara 4 года назад +5

    1:21 I just laughed out loud when the heroic music came in, given the context
    Really informative video btw!

  • @nicklaskaridis
    @nicklaskaridis 4 года назад +31

    Derek: This is called a naked singularity.
    Me: Hehe... *nAkEd*

    • @voxelamateur
      @voxelamateur 4 года назад +1

      what's so funny? have you never seen a naked hole?

    • @Harlem55
      @Harlem55 4 года назад

      @@voxelamateur lol, just not your naked hole.

  • @daserfomalhaut9809
    @daserfomalhaut9809 6 лет назад +137

    Oh my Christ. Thank you for showing how we measure these distant objects!

  • @StxrryNight
    @StxrryNight 3 года назад +4

    that event already happned, but the light reached us after millions of years.

  • @nikkoa.3639
    @nikkoa.3639 5 лет назад +1713

    "This is called a naked singularity and it makes a lot of scientist uncomfortable" *GEE I WONDER WHY*
    Edit: Btw, the replies to this comment are mostly about one guy arguing that the earth is flat. Shame isn't it?
    Edit: FREEEDOOOOM HE'S GONE! WHAT A NEW YEAR MIRACLE

    • @lukesmith8896
      @lukesmith8896 5 лет назад +166

      ew i can se ur singalaraty thats not even thereticly posibal

    • @pineablesoda
      @pineablesoda 5 лет назад +28

      @@lukesmith8896 dude i love you

    • @canuckeraust
      @canuckeraust 5 лет назад +42

      ^
      ||
      ||
      Gay

    • @sansimportance863
      @sansimportance863 5 лет назад +90

      @Flearther McPlane yeah that had been said about 2001, 2002, 2003, … and 2019 before that, still waiting.

    • @diwakardayal954
      @diwakardayal954 5 лет назад +21

      @Flearther McPlane sry i didnt get u are u tryn to say earth is flat?

  • @PhilipAdair
    @PhilipAdair 3 года назад +1

    5:17 "This is called a naked singularity, and it makes a lot of scientists uncomfortable" 🤣 🤣 🤣 an underrated pun. Kudos and congrats 👍🏾

  • @marinaramarcato7615
    @marinaramarcato7615 4 года назад +8

    I love your videos, thank you so much for the time and effort put into creating them. They are great for communicating science people wouldn't know otherwise!

    • @miguelchippsinteligente6072
      @miguelchippsinteligente6072 3 года назад

      Tesla referenced human energy 🌬👻jesus christ referenced living waters science 💎👨‍🎓👩‍🎓science described water memory 🌊🎭psalms16:24 k,j proverbs27:19 existence psychologically god bless fight the good fight 💖👻💎👨‍🎓👩‍🎓🗽🤍⚖🌪🌬

    • @nickwilcox3648
      @nickwilcox3648 3 года назад

      @@miguelchippsinteligente6072 ... what...?

  • @grenzviel4480
    @grenzviel4480 6 лет назад +42

    I understood... some of it

    • @adeshpoz1167
      @adeshpoz1167 6 лет назад +1

      Hel yeah me too. 😂

    • @cloveramv
      @cloveramv 6 лет назад

      Whatever he told about was simple Physics that you usually study in school, he wasn't talking of higher level concepts, so if you are a kid you will soon read the formulas and terms he used.
      :) it's not that hard.

    • @adeshpoz1167
      @adeshpoz1167 6 лет назад

      @@cloveramv Not really. Many concepts were higher level. I was never taught about black holes or anything about black body radiation or the acretion disk in school. I learned it all myself.

    • @MoPoppins
      @MoPoppins 6 лет назад

      More than I did...and yet I optimistically watch.

  • @the_hanged_clown
    @the_hanged_clown 6 лет назад +26

    amazing what one can tell simply from the light emitted from distant objects

    • @mr_brown5974
      @mr_brown5974 6 лет назад +1

      And a 1000 years of science

    • @jonathankehn9202
      @jonathankehn9202 6 лет назад +1

      Or the lack thereof...

    • @the_hanged_clown
      @the_hanged_clown 6 лет назад +1

      arguably less considering the public fear of science for eons, pushed by religious institutions

    • @thehoovah
      @thehoovah 6 лет назад +1

      It's easy to form theories about things that no one can physically verify... There have been hundreds of scientific theories disproven over the years. This information is no less susceptible.

    • @9308323
      @9308323 6 лет назад

      ​@@thehoovah It's part of its charm. Of course, we can't really say ANYTHING 100% for sure (this could all be just the matrix and we wouldn't know) but we still try to understand the universe around us with the current information we have. If, however, this is proven to be incorrect, then that just meant that there's a better explanation that we have yet to find and the journey to learning about this phenomenon begins anew. This time, we are equipped with a better understanding than last time (since we DID disprove the previous theory and what made that possible didn't come from nowhere).

  • @mebeBrianna
    @mebeBrianna Месяц назад

    I remember when I first watched this video when it first came out. I keep coming back because it really helps me understand the nature of a black hole

  • @simoneesposito5166
    @simoneesposito5166 6 лет назад +14

    I love your content :)) keep making videos

  • @krithiksankar2081
    @krithiksankar2081 6 лет назад +41

    Just curious....If the galaxy is 290 million light years away and we are detecting this event now, does that mean the event actually happened 290 million years ago ? since the information would have taken that much time to reach us.

  • @Rudxain
    @Rudxain 3 года назад +10

    5:18
    Black Hole: _[spins so fast it unveils its singularity]_
    Scientists: _[blushing]_
    Black Hole chan: Do you want me to put my clothes back on, scientist-kun? UwU

    • @nonamechannl
      @nonamechannl 3 года назад +2

      please delete this comment i cant 😂😂🤣🤣🤣

    • @forfarme
      @forfarme 3 года назад

      Shut up please

  • @snowarist
    @snowarist Год назад

    I see black holes I get this eerie feeling... They are just so mysterious. Thanks for clearing some of the mystery, Derek.

  • @hobog
    @hobog 5 лет назад +36

    9:47 what's the fissure artifact that just popped up at top right of screen?

    • @natejohnston480
      @natejohnston480 5 лет назад +7

      Looks like an eye lash lol

    • @shekelboob
      @shekelboob 4 года назад +1

      space worms

    • @GetMoGaming
      @GetMoGaming 3 года назад +1

      space worms lol. Looks like a green screen error.

  • @amitavm8099
    @amitavm8099 6 лет назад +5

    Love your work man!

  • @kabyamtalukdar3066
    @kabyamtalukdar3066 4 года назад +40

    Why on earth are there so many dislikes.....did the dislikers misheard "Naked singularities" with "NAKED SINGLE LADIES" ???

    • @Helicopterpilot16
      @Helicopterpilot16 3 года назад +2

      Both make men uncomfortable, when they're nerds XD

    • @monkeyojacko
      @monkeyojacko 3 года назад +5

      Probably cuz they thing black holes are racist

    • @abisgamer4825
      @abisgamer4825 3 года назад

      @@monkeyojacko why do you guys have to bring your shitty agenda into everything

    • @darksecret6050
      @darksecret6050 3 года назад +2

      @@abisgamer4825 I think he's *against* it tho

    • @Madara_Uchiha69420
      @Madara_Uchiha69420 3 года назад

      😂😂😂😂, makes sense though

  • @geniusstuffwithujan856
    @geniusstuffwithujan856 3 года назад +1

    This man deserves a Nobel Prize. His videos are the ones which have motivated me to understand science , not memorize it.

  • @lightspiritblix1423
    @lightspiritblix1423 4 года назад +18

    I have officially reached the "go to bed" part of youtube: Random science facts about things that make me feel existential.

  • @kitsunekaze93
    @kitsunekaze93 6 лет назад +119

    next video: can dark matter be made with strong enough coffee?

    • @Callie_Cosmo
      @Callie_Cosmo 5 лет назад +8

      Brown matter could be made with strong enough coffee, *but that’s for a different video* 👀

    • @equenos
      @equenos 4 года назад +1

      Black matter *is* strong enough coffee

    • @medexamtoolscom
      @medexamtoolscom 4 года назад +2

      Only if nibbler eats it.

    • @fallenphoenix148
      @fallenphoenix148 4 года назад

      @@medexamtoolscom lol

    • @waharadome
      @waharadome 4 года назад

      "There's coffee in that nebula!" - captain janeway

  • @photonicpizza1466
    @photonicpizza1466 6 лет назад +38

    "This is called a naked singularity, and it makes a lot of scientists uncomfortable"
    Not the only naked thing that makes them uncomfortable

    • @hamstsorkxxor
      @hamstsorkxxor 6 лет назад +11

      Yeah, your mom has that effect on people.

  • @PAWiley
    @PAWiley 2 года назад +1

    Out of all the channels I don't understand, this one is my favorite.
    I'm partially kidding, of course; much of the math is beyond me, but Muller does brilliantly to help make complex science more accessible for those of us without a significant background in physics and mathematics, but no lack of curiosity.

    • @plica06
      @plica06 Год назад

      And *Dereks* genius is to keep you watching even when you have no idea what he is saying.

  • @lingling1797
    @lingling1797 6 лет назад +134

    Umm this happened 250milion years ago
    Step up ur game guys.

    • @Danny-oi8yl
      @Danny-oi8yl 6 лет назад +4

      Patience.

    • @benbarrett452
      @benbarrett452 6 лет назад +7

      That's actually got me trippin lol

    • @penguin44ca
      @penguin44ca 6 лет назад +12

      Or does it only occur when we view it? It's all relative

    • @eattoast6378
      @eattoast6378 6 лет назад +7

      @@penguin44ca that's not how light works

    • @tirthajrikame1052
      @tirthajrikame1052 6 лет назад +5

      @@eattoast6378 BUT THATS HOW MAFIA WORKS

  • @weaseltunnelerinokripperin8888
    @weaseltunnelerinokripperin8888 6 лет назад +4

    0:20
    "It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced"

  • @dhruvikaaa7903
    @dhruvikaaa7903 3 года назад +20

    There’s my exam tomorrow but this seemed important

    • @miguelchippsinteligente6072
      @miguelchippsinteligente6072 3 года назад

      Tesla referenced human energy 🌬👻jesus christ referenced living waters 💎👨‍🎓👩‍🎓science described water memory 🌊🎭psalms16:24 k,j proverbs27:19 existence psychologically god bless fight the good fight 💖👻💎👨‍🎓👩‍🎓🗽🤍⚖🌪🌬

    • @AD-kv8iu
      @AD-kv8iu 3 года назад

      Seems like your running behind excellence .
      Success will flow soon😀😀

    • @AD-kv8iu
      @AD-kv8iu 3 года назад

      Am inspired by 3 idiots .
      Just as in the movie a student should take liberty of dabbling in subjects not immediately his own to mentally fire him and keep him engrossed .
      Anyways your name is quite unique 😀
      ( Google name obviously)

  • @cosmicpebble-s7z
    @cosmicpebble-s7z Месяц назад

    I can see a black hole feeding on a star forever, it's so satisfying

  • @user-qg7lb1jx8b
    @user-qg7lb1jx8b 6 лет назад +22

    Guess those 2 astronomy courses I took weren't for nothing... I can actually understand everything In this video

    • @archerfn8665
      @archerfn8665 6 лет назад

      Good for you pal

    • @mycroft16
      @mycroft16 6 лет назад +5

      Astronomy courses are never wasted. They're a hell of a lot of fun, and you learn about just impossibly awesome stuff. I recommend them to everyone.

  • @everydayvideoos
    @everydayvideoos 5 лет назад +32

    10 April 2019 first ever image of black hole seen by public.

    • @goji_crafter
      @goji_crafter 5 лет назад +8

      @Claudia Juarez dude it was a multinational project that started at least in 2017, it had multiple petabytes of data to construct, it took the largest radio array ever made to image it. Shut up if you don't know what you're talking about.

    • @Amy-dq2lg
      @Amy-dq2lg 5 лет назад +14

      @Claudia Juarez i conclude you are a very smart flat earther, tell me if i'm wrong

    • @strokey5284
      @strokey5284 5 лет назад

      Ok, I think you'll stop saying your opinion on the internet, and think about that people can always disagree with ya, but tho bruh I think it's real smh

    • @goji_crafter
      @goji_crafter 5 лет назад +6

      @Claudia Juarez The distance and obstruction: WHY DO YOU THINK THEY HAD TO USE AN ENORMOUS ARRAY OF TELESCOPES ACROSS THE GLOBE? FOR FUN?

    • @thederpinator6636
      @thederpinator6636 5 лет назад

      Conclusion: you are one of those conspiracy theorists on the history channel at 3:46AM

  • @mr88cet
    @mr88cet 4 года назад +39

    I sure am glad they don’t express it as diameters, or it would be a disco!

  • @tlwmdbt
    @tlwmdbt 2 года назад +2

    I imagine risco like the whirl in a toilett or bathtube in 3D, as faster it spins (as faster the water floates down the pip/fermions and bosons go down the hole) as steeper and more sharpened the whirl walls are. 😅 You did a very good job in explanation!

  • @mtrzaidi4967
    @mtrzaidi4967 6 лет назад +22

    hi iam your big fan for about 5 years till now

    • @veritasium
      @veritasium  6 лет назад +18

      thank you for the support!

    • @donloder1
      @donloder1 6 лет назад +1

      What happened at now?

  • @Tzourosaur
    @Tzourosaur 6 лет назад +39

    Traveling Black Holes exist.
    We won't see it coming.
    We won't be ready.
    Sleep well tonight.

    • @unknownvariable4783
      @unknownvariable4783 6 лет назад +7

      Now why did you have to tell me that

    • @muneebusmani151
      @muneebusmani151 6 лет назад +14

      we will see them coming won't we? with so much astronomical data we may be able to track if a couple of stars in our sky just switch off or move from their position due to gravitational lensing. I don't know if black holes could be quite travelers. especially when the would be wading through the mikyway to get near to our planet.
      anyway, megalophobia triggered!!!

    • @hawke7471
      @hawke7471 6 лет назад +6

      There’s also Neutron Stars, which are just as terrifying, but at least they can be seen.

    • @Tzourosaur
      @Tzourosaur 6 лет назад +1

      @Bubonic SoS Yeah,but we have not spotted any star that is about to destroy and give a supernova in our galaxy.

    • @jaystarr6571
      @jaystarr6571 6 лет назад +6

      We'll see it coming...maybe. 'Cause it will destroy the outer planets in the solar system first on the way here. Or at least alter their orbits...Maybe.

  • @utgfy
    @utgfy 2 года назад +15

    Quick questions from a know-nothing: I'm confused about the dwarf star orbiting the black hole, the one that you described as always there but not visible until the star was sucked in to the black hole. I assume that its orbit is in a place of equilibrium where the gravitational force pulling the dwarf star in matches the centripetal force of the spin pushing it out. But then a star gets sucked into the black hole. Wouldn't that massively change the gravity of the black hole? According to your explanation, such an event would also increase the spin, but are we saying that increase in mass and increase in spin are equivalent somehow? Or did the dwarf star change its orbital pattern after this event? I guess we can't compare before & after, but is it in any way possible that it DIDN'T change its orbital pattern after such a dramatic event? How would a star getting sucked into a black hole change the trajectory of an object already in orbit around that black hole? Wouldn't it disturb the orbital pattern greatly in the short run, then, settling down, cast the dwarf star into a new long-term orbital pattern? The bigger implication of what I'm asking is whether the dwarf star was actually there and orbiting in that manner before the event, or if the event introduced the dwarf star into orbit or somehow dramatically changed its orbit. Thanks for the time, and thanks especially for the great videos.

  • @B4evrtru-26
    @B4evrtru-26 2 года назад +1

    I'm only 13 and i still know what you are talking about, thank you, in fact, thank god. i leaned more than in school.

  • @ashermangel5668
    @ashermangel5668 5 лет назад +69

    So your telling me the flashes were caused by a white dwarf star, something unimaginably huge, going half the speed of light, unimaginably fast... I feel small.

    • @paolo8339
      @paolo8339 5 лет назад +19

      In fact white dwarfs are small (still aproximately the size of earth) but they are unimaginably dense, because there mass are comparable to the sun.

    • @greypotter1005
      @greypotter1005 5 лет назад +25

      A star circled a black hole once every TWO. MINUTES. It takes Mercury freaking 88 days to trundle around our star. But this white dwarf, only a little smaller than the FREAKING SUN. Friggin zips around a SUPER MASSIVE BLACK HOLE. In TWO. MINUTES.

    • @ashermangel5668
      @ashermangel5668 5 лет назад

      @@paolo8339 Oh I didn't know that! Thanks for the info!

    • @ashermangel5668
      @ashermangel5668 5 лет назад +2

      @@greypotter1005 I was thinking the same thing 2 minutes for that to happen... WOW!!!

    • @medexamtoolscom
      @medexamtoolscom 4 года назад +2

      White dwarf stars aren't unimaginably huge, unless the Earth is too huge for your imagination, since that's about how big a white dwarf star is. Though it's about a million times more massive than the Earth.

  • @luckycobble935
    @luckycobble935 6 лет назад +9

    I'm doing a presentation on this so thanks for the info :)

  • @kittzy3598
    @kittzy3598 6 лет назад +5

    5:29 Hey baby, wanna see my exposed singularity.

  • @AsgerAlstrupPalm
    @AsgerAlstrupPalm Год назад

    Amazing video BRAVO mate🎉

  • @MattRoszak
    @MattRoszak 6 лет назад +16

    Neato. I have nothing to add.

    • @sequence6005
      @sequence6005 6 лет назад +2

      Oh hey, it's the guy who made my favorite turn-based rpg of all time.
      What are you doing here hmm?

  • @KyleLi
    @KyleLi 6 лет назад +5

    Imagine humanity in the far, far future figuring out how to increase the spin of a black hole enough to be able to see inside of it...
    what would they be able to witness.

    • @jonathanallard2128
      @jonathanallard2128 5 лет назад +1

      Not sure that can even happen. Not sure humanity will ever harness that much energy, and to that purpose.
      Much more likely they will deduce long before through other ways what's beyond the event horizon.

    • @CookieTube
      @CookieTube 5 лет назад +1

      @@jonathanallard2128 agreed...
      I'm going to take a wild guess here, but from what I've read, and little understand, it would take an infinite amount of energy to get a black hole spinning beyond spin 1. The closer you come to spin 1, the more energy it would take to get it that bit faster spinning.... much like you can't go faster than the speed of light because it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate to that speed.

  • @ksa7740vi
    @ksa7740vi 5 лет назад +5

    Universe: "You mortal can not measure my complicated shits!"
    Scientist: "Watch and learn."

  • @martinp.617
    @martinp.617 3 года назад +2

    As always, great explanation and animation. Keep it up.

  • @BaterieCZ
    @BaterieCZ 5 лет назад +162

    Or the blinking is just alien lighthouse and we are making those theories here :D

    • @zapcrossworld4036
      @zapcrossworld4036 4 года назад +10

      @Sir Woof trump

    • @pfft3158
      @pfft3158 4 года назад +3

      They would be extinct by now as this happened millions of years ago.

    • @ornessarhithfaeron3576
      @ornessarhithfaeron3576 4 года назад +3

      @Sir Woof This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard

    • @sounakrakshit7312
      @sounakrakshit7312 4 года назад

      @@zapcrossworld4036 dafuk 🤣

    • @Silver-FoxYT
      @Silver-FoxYT 4 года назад +3

      @Sir Woof what makes you think they're not?

  • @II-tj5eg
    @II-tj5eg 6 лет назад +309

    This is what Vsauce should've always been like: free for everyone.

    • @Roxfox
      @Roxfox 6 лет назад +50

      Because if someone is good at something, they should always do it for free...?

    • @matguimond92
      @matguimond92 6 лет назад +20

      @@Roxfox yeah not paying a conceited douchebag a monthly fee to watch youtube videos

    • @Roxfox
      @Roxfox 6 лет назад +5

      @@matguimond92 I don't know why you think I care, but that's fine. It's your decision, and a sensible one as far as I'm concerned, if you were looking for validation.

    • @SeldomPooper
      @SeldomPooper 6 лет назад +44

      @@matguimond92 what is with the entitlement ? Its his content, he can charge for it if he wants to.

    • @Actheman1978
      @Actheman1978 6 лет назад +24

      Roxfox you make it sound as if he wasn’t getting paid at all. Monetization on RUclips works like network television. VSause had a lot of subscribers and views so the advertising revenue should have been pretty substantial. This doesn’t even mention the ability to sell merchandise, obtain episode sponsors and Patreon. You’re ultimately right though, it’s Michael’s choice, but he wasn’t doing it for “free”...not anymore than NBC, CBS, Fox etc.

  • @nesterkyn
    @nesterkyn 5 лет назад +24

    “What is scientists are just trying to inspire people to get into science” the pure evil makes me shudder 😵

  • @fatmagafr
    @fatmagafr 2 года назад

    srsly these videos are so amzing tysm!!

  • @TheGodlessGuitarist
    @TheGodlessGuitarist 4 года назад +12

    Hey Derek, what exactly is spinning i.e. what is there to spin if it is really a singularity?
    Also, if you have 2 black holes of indentical size, in close proximity, with acretion disks on precisely the same plan, but one is inverted wrt the other (so that they are spinning opposite to each other), if matter in both acretion disks is moving at >.5c, what happens when matter from one disk collides with matter from the other as the blackholes spiral in to each other?

    • @Victor_Marius
      @Victor_Marius 3 года назад

      My guess is that some matter will be exchanged between the two black holes and some will escape their stable spinning orbit.

    • @TheGodlessGuitarist
      @TheGodlessGuitarist 3 года назад

      @@Victor_Marius The question was about matter impacting matter where their closing speed is > c

    • @jdotoz
      @jdotoz Год назад

      It seems that spinning black holes are thought to form tight rings rather than points - a "ringularity."

  • @navidimani
    @navidimani 4 года назад +4

    Typo in equation of Radius at t=6:23 ? Radius of an object (R) should be inversely proportional to its temperature Squared (T^2).

    • @aman-qj5sx
      @aman-qj5sx 4 года назад

      Yeah I think he may have meant to put a T^4 in the denominator

  • @YoungEducationUSA
    @YoungEducationUSA 6 лет назад +7

    Will you ever do another collab video with someone where both videos are meant to be played together simultaneously? Like the toilet flushing video.

  • @luiggiphilipi
    @luiggiphilipi 3 года назад +1

    School should teach this way.
    Awesome video as always.