Did JWST SOLVE The Mystery of Supermassive Black Hole Origins?
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This is what we astronomers call a blob, or a smudge, if you want to get really technical. It may not look like much from here, but what do you expect for something near the literal edge of the observable universe. If you were there when this light was emitted, you’d A. be at the beginning of time, and B. be looking at an entire galaxy containing an enormous black hole at its heart. It’s the most distant black hole we’ve semi-directly detected. That’s cool enough on its own, but as an added bonus this one smudge may have solved the mystery of the origin of the supermassive black holes in our universe.
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I find the lack of cotton candy in the early universe vaguely disappointing.
Same.
You'd think they could budget for at least a little bit; but no, literally zero cotton candy.
I'm planning a social media campaign to cancel the early universe as it was. It didn't do anything for us as far as I'm concerned. The new early universe has to be cotton candy friendly! And the contemporary universe should grant me more luck in general. 😂👍
If we're in a multiverse, who's to say there isn't a universe full of cotton candy? 🤣
It has not been ruled out.
I remember the times when JWST was a program that was always being delayed and was taking more and more money and it wasn't clear when will it be finally launched. Nowadays we regularly hear about new discoveries made by JWST, which just shows how worth this program actually is
Science rocks
The thing that makes me angriest about Hubble and JWST is that they only built one. Why spend $10B on ONE JWST when you could have TEN JWSTs for maybe $20B?
I don't think that's the right way to think about it. The discoveries made by the JWST are going to feel more visceral than the lack of discoveries that would have been made by JWST's alternatives, even if the former is far less significant than the latter.
I think that Daniel Kahneman has a good term for the difficulty of accounting for opportunity costs, but I don't remember what it is.
A lot of the issue as per normal with America and science is delays an due to congress canceling and interfering with stuff they have no idea about as they say "what return does this have to America" or "how can this beat the Russian's or China?" They are fine with spending untold trillions on military that often never works, is over budget in the billions or is just for their contractors to have work but want to enhance humanity as a whole? pfft
Translation: The explanation for why you are wrong exists… but is informing you, a random person in a RUclips comment section, worth the lost opportunity cost required to look it up?…. No. No it’s not.
I never considered that black holes do not need to be dense, but when you think about how the mass of a black hole scales with its surface area instead of the volume, it makes perfect sense.
Another way to think about it is that if all mass is assumed to be at the central, gravitational attraction goes down with the square of the distance to the center, while density goes down with the volume. So to get the same attraction, mass has to go up with the square of the distance, making density go down with the distance
Mass is proportional to radius, not surface area
@thedeemon added context for others - this is only true for black holes
@@thedeemonunless you are a black hole. Singularity has no radius, but still has a finite mass. The surface area of the event horizon, however, is in direct 1:1 correlation to the mass. As mass goes up the surface area increases. The event horizon doesn't have mass.
@@thedeemonthe mass of a black hole scales with the surface area of the black hole, not its radius or volume
It sounds like the connection between heavy elements and gas cloud fragmentation needs its own episode.
They did a video on Population III stars (the very first stars in the universe) that shows just how big those stars got because heavier elements weren't there to interfere: ruclips.net/video/4pSUtWBiuB4/видео.html
Dear whoever edits/does music for these,
PLEASE make the outro quieter! I love listening to these before bed and the last 15 seconds are so much louder than the entire episode. THANK YOU!
Sincerely,
An overworked mom who just wants to peacefully learn and fall asleep to science
My sentiments, exactly, both the intro and outro are way too loud. I am constantly looking for videos that are interesting and boring at the same time to listen to while I'm asleep. There are some good ones if you like the subject matter, but this subject is ASMR gold.
@@jvcyt298 They said they would adjust it on my other comment on their most recent video! I liked the channel called “Astrum” for fall asleep space videos. He even has a “sleep space “ playlist on Spotify.
It seems louder, but I checked the audio in Audacity and the main part of the video is about 7.5 dB louder than the outro. In other words, the outro is less than half as loud. Tom Scott made a video a while back explaining how some sounds are perceived as being louder even when the actual amplitude is lower.
But I agree it should be made a bit quieter, or perhaps the music could be changed to something more subtle.
@@nameismetatoo4591 exactly. It might technically be half as loud, but the brash intense music makes it seem way louder.
I think it's the music itself that's off-putting.
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*hole team.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist the joke. 😬)
Honestly, JWST already paid for itself multiple times. What a heck of an investment!
Yes. it is one of the greatest discovered tools in the early 21st century.
We must thank NASA and Dream America!
100% i just wish we'd put more support into replacing the kepler space telescope because when vera rubin observatory goes online it would have been our best way to find earth sized planets in the habitable zone of potential candidates. right now its virtually impossible given our tools. rubin would look at huge swaths of space to find potential candidate stars to look at, and kepler2 would have the ability to get a good look. its sad that failures tend to shelf projects for EONS regardless of the potential science it can bring. the only reason we soldiered on with jwst was because of the fact that it was the spiritual successor to the amazing hubble telescope.
Yup
What profit can you make out of an OBG - none!
@@davejones542 it's a discovery. Something might come out of it.
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The merch segment for the hoodie should have gone something like this: "Now you can be warm as you fall into a super massive black hole if you don't like cold spaghetti"
I used to eat cold spaghetti for breakfast.
Cold spaghetti is really good though but this was clever nonetheless
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I thought he said "wormed".. As is spaghettified
The new intro explains the new profile pic
It is really good
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So, if I understand it right, the Volume of the sphere delimited by the Schwarzchild Radius is proportional to the cube of the Mass. And that relationship implies a crazy different density range, since as the Mass grows, that Volume grows much, much quicker. That means that the physical process able to form a black hole doesn't necessarily need to be always the same, and that some volume range may not have a physical process that can make them (like in the current gap from 100 sun masses to 100.000 sun masses), or if it has existed, it needed different conditions from the ones in the current universe (I'm looking at you, Primordial Black Holes). Maybe the future universe will have conditions that will lead to the formation of black holes in completely different range from the current ones. Anyway, IMO, the current gap of observed black holes in that mass range is quite a neat indicator of a different physical process to form SMBH. I mean, not a single blackhole seen in that mass range in an entire visibile universe (until today) seems to me quite "suggestive".
No black holes in that range cause there's no process to form them in that range it's either smbs or stellar most likely
@@NboOfficialAus
Except there is, or really _was,_ a process to form them. The hypothetical but very well-supported Quasi-star, also known as a "Black Hole Star", is a supermassive star ranging from 1000 to 10000 solar masses, with a black hole for a core. These kinds of stars require highly dense molecular clouds and extremely low metalicities to form, conditions only found very early in the universe, and would only last for a few million years before they collapse inward on themselves and shed their outer layers, resulting in the formation of intermediate-mass black holes. The reason why they're either super-rare or non-existent _now_ is because most of them likely merged into the supermassive black holes that sit at the centers of most galaxies.
Remember all discussed is theoretical. From the theoretical Schwarzschild radius to black holes we know nothing and barely can test anything.
@@dragoscoco2173 yes, Schwarzchild solution is an ideal one, but that was interesting none the less.
@@KrudlerTheHorse
Existing theories being invalidated by new data doesn't just let you replace those theories with unfalsifiable bullshit. Alder's Razor (also humorously referred to as Newton's Flaming Laser Sword) comes into effect at that point - any scientific proposition made must have observable consequences and a formal demonstration that they are indeed the consequences of the proposition claimed. Or in simpler terms, the "vacuum" left behind by refuted theories can only be filled with another theory backed by direct observations. Saying "A Wizard Did It" is invalid unless you can somehow prove that, yes, a wizard did actually do it.
JWST already proving its worth!
I read it as SJW Solve the Mystery 🤣
@@w415800like that would ever happen.
@@w415800like that would ever happen.
Such as disproving the Big Bang theory?
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Recovering from the hollidays parties?
@@franck3279 From his voice it sounds like he's on the tail end of or just recovered from a cold or the flu. Maybe if the team took a break over the holiday period and Matt got sick just after it could've delayed recording new episodes for a bit.
Great episode as always. I didn't see many references on the graphics so I'm presuming their being done specifically for Space Time now, in which case huge kudos to the folks doing that as they're top-level quality. The only thing missing is the comment responses - are they coming back?
I can't get enough of this channel, and black holes are definitely my favorite subject!
Oh boy, does the internet have treat for you...
Go check out Dr. Becky. Her Oxford Doctorate is in SMBH research and she does weekly shows on a range of 'Space' and other Astrophysics topics, including SMBHs. (she gets shout-outs from Matt on this channel pretty often, as well.)
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Excellent Video. Dr becky as a couples of video about those problems about black hole. PBS-ST fans should watch them too. Also, I want my black hole cotton candy now!
The Schwarzschild density is really tricky to wrap your head around. I figured out the equation to calculate it when I was in high school. The higher the mass, the lower the Schwarzschild density. For something like a trillion solar masses, it only needs to be as dense as air and it'd automatically collapse into a black hole. Hey that gives me an idea. How much mass would correspond to a Schwarzschild density equal to the average density of matter in the universe?
Huh. Doesn't this prove that the universe cannot have infinite mass and thus must be finite in size? Because if it were infinite, the Schwarzschild density would be zero and it'd just collapse into a black hole? Hmm 🤔
How would we even know we aren't inside a collapsed black hole? We can't look inside a black hole, that's why we're calling it black. The outside of the observable universe is also black, also by definition. This doesn't prove much though, there's many reasons we can't look at something. But infinite mass isn't even required for us to be in a black hole, just a higher mass than what would correspond to a Schwarzschild density equal to the average density of matter in the universe. Yet my understanding is that the Standard Model isn't compatible with this. Regardless, with our current understanding of black holes, it's not really scientific to theorize we are inside a black hole, since it implies that it cannot be proven, so you just have to believe it, if you wish. So, according to the standard model we aren't in a black hole, but we are also aware that the standard model isn't perfect, so we also can't rule it out. So the universe may be infinite in mass and we're in a black hole, or it may be finite and still be in a black hole, or the standard model is not wrong about this and we aren't in a black hole and indeed the mass is finite in size.
@@nydydn And if we are in a black hole wouldn't it be possible that other black holes merged with it producing these too massive SMBs?
The density assumes that only gravity is acting however. If you factor something like expanding space then you can have a higher density. It also assumes that there's an 'outside' and center for the volume to collapse into; in an infinite universe of infinite mass there is no center and so no preferred point for all matter to collapse to.
@@garethdean6382 Ah hidden assumptions. They always get you 😅
so good, thanks for the update!
Great video; I was hoping you would do one for this topic!
They must have been some pretty high energy gamma rays when emitted if they're still x-rays when Chandra detected them.
X-ray is a huge range from 10^-11 up to 10^-8 meters. That's 3 orders of magnitude and the redshift is 10, meaning you expect only 1 order of magnitude shift. The universe isn't nearly old enough for most X-rays to shift into UV.
@@Merennulli True enough.. I stand corrected.
Space time with a new intro 😮
Click these videos as soon as i see them in my sub box. I was wondering if comment responses will return at some point in the future? I always found it interesting to see what people ask about certain topics and having such a great and knowledgeable presenter as matt answer them.
Magnifique new PBS Space Time opening!
Could energies have been high enough in the pre-CMB era to produce supermassive kugelblitzes? That would provide earlier seeds for SMBHs despite energies in that era being too high to allow accretion.
"In astronomy, where's there's one there's often many."
Except for life by the observed behavior of astronomers.
Astronomers have observed zero life though, not one! And there's lots of astronomers, so it works there too 😂
@@alicederyn Don't they have mirrors? 😯
@@MCsCreations they do but they are always putting them into telescopes
I hope this whole conversation gets quoted in the show!
I remember when I watched this show years ago and I had no clue what you were talking about lol. Now I love learned a new language and it makes so much more sense.
Thank you.
Congrats to 3M subscribers, keep up your outstanding work!
I think the fact that the early universe did not have significant quantities of cotton candy (for all we know) may now be my favorite astrophysics fact of all time.
"No" - any headline that's a question can be answered with "no".
Studies on Betteridge's law have actually shown that "yes" is a more common answer. Both two studies on such headlines in scientific journals, and another that checked 26000 articles on news websites.
And in any headline starting with ’a study shows,,,’, the key word is ’a’.
Cool video!! Blackholes are my favorite topic
Just want to say that I love this show and everyone involved with making it!!!
Thank you guys! You are one of THE best science shows out there!
Love the new intro animation and not just because it doesn’t have an earth rotating the wrong way 😜
Great video, very well explained as ever! Thanks for sharing! 🙂😎🤓
Another wonderful video
Thank you so much 🫶🏻
The direct collapse proposal for SMBH's is the best suggestion yet on how those BH's grew so large so fast in the early universe. Most certainly not all of them were formed that way. The early universe was so chaotic and spatially not very large it is not hard to expect that in some densely packed areas mergers happened growing the BH's. There's one thing to remember though. Even if a BH has the density of Cotton Candy it is still a BH. Meaning that at some distance from the BH the gravity becomes so strong that it prevents light from escaping meaning if you get caught in that gravity there will be no soft landing waiting for you.
Outstanding episode, Matt and team!
Love these black hole videos
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Oh nice, thanks for showing the cool data!
Fantastic video, as always!
Very nice new intro! Lovely work from the effects editor(s)
Sick I've wanted that black hole shirt for forever. Dibs.
Yaaay a new video!! It's *about Time*.
The new black hole orbit shirt design just doesn't hit the same without the hopelessly screwed astronaut... 😔
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Whoa, new intro! Love it.
i'd never realised the cotton candy analogy before, interesting, I actually learned something today! :D
Fabulous video
an other Great video Dr.Matt, tks a lot! a video about GRB association with SuperNovae would also be amazing!
Glad to see you back Matt and I hope you are feeling better now? You really have been pushing yourself a lot the last year or so, what with your professor work, your film, PBS Space Time, your own research and much, much travelling around the world. Please remember you are "made of meat" and overworking is not good for the health, believe me I found out the hard way and it made me seriously unwell. You are still a young man, take a break occasionally.
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❤another beautiful and helpful lecture
Anyone notice their new intro! Great update ST Team
As soon as I heard about the accidental discovery idea, my first thought was Penzias and Wilson. It's such a great story.
At 0:53 and ai is going to help so much in advancing in physics, it wont just help in therotical physics, but will also help in analyzing interstellar data and noticing all important stuff in it.
Fascinating!
Love the new intro. Looking forward to further discoveries by JWST, it seems to be one absolutely amazing tool :D
New intro is rad!
This makes me happy!
Good episode, I'm hoping for one of those deep theoretical topics soon.
Awesome new intro animation. And logo!
I dig the new intro and Logo,amazing video as alwais also thanks
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It was stated if the solar system had the density of cotton candy it could be black hole. What about if we scale up to the observable universe? What would the density need to be for it to be a black hole and how does that compare to the estimated density (with and without dark matter)? With the expansion of the universe, what did these calculations look like in the past and into the future?
I've had people get really angry at me for suggesting direct collapse as they struggle to understand how a big ball of gas can just suddenly form an event horizon.
Thanks to Matt and the team for another great episode! By the way, no background music on this one
Yayyyyyyy spacetime is back
This one was a long wait. Finally here 😂
It’s both. The conditions or rules of the Universe were different during its young energetic phase.
Making Direct Collapse was possible what we may call Ultra Massive Black Holes. (Not saying that this next phase couldn’t have overlapped the previous phase, but,..). As time moved along, the first stars (Population 3 stars) formed at greater masses than is possible in the later era. They began collapsing as things calmed down, forming the seeds that we see in most galaxies with large SMBH. And as they collapsed, it triggered the birth of some of the oldest known stars in the universe, the population 2 metal poor stars. By this time the energy / activity level of the universe has calmed down enough to resemble what we know. As time went on, enough time has elapsed for SMBHs and galaxies to have formed by way of the most prevalent theory, where stellar mass black holes just accumulated into SMBHs and the galaxies grew up with them.
Can you make an episode on how astronomers locate known objects? More so how do they calculate depth of field/magnification. I mean how they report were they found an object for other scientist to observe
Or you could Google for 2 seconds and answer your own questions
I like the new intro!
Very nice, thank you!
I happen to know of the co-authors of the paper by Bogdan+23, and learned from him that in fact x-ray observations with Chandra were performed before even the launch of jwst! If I recall correctly you can find such interesting details in the data section of the paper.
Impressive work on the paper and yours explanations, Matt.
Edit: x-ray observations were performed before the launch exactly because they though they will find something interesting in the JWST data which had already already scheduled
Thank you 🌱💪🏾💚!
The sight of one of those Heavy Seed supermassive black hole formations must have been something to behold!
The cotton candy example really puts into perspective how empty space is
Excellent science communication
Didn't expect to hear about the early universe's OB/Gs today but here we are.
I think there is some intuition bias with the Heavy Seed Model. I don't get why it hasn't been taken more as the most obvious plausible answer. For me, it was like:
1- start to like watching more physics, get to know PBS space time
2- like the black hole topics, get to the neutron star-BH transition video
3- assimilate that SMBH are actually not very dense
4- Immediately assume that this is how it happens. Early vast gas clouds drift around until a region of space happens to have enough of it and then, as you said in the neutron star-BH video, zuuuuum, there is nothing, not even the faint gas, just a massive black ball/blob, and some ominous post transformation ambient tune playing in the background...
And to me, that subtle transition was one of the coolest things to imagine. The extent, the subtlety of the transition, and the implications... as fire-spitting unicorn quasars level of cool. Just exchanging the fuzz with truly deeper galactic consequences, whale-like ones.
Guys, you are the best, and I feel like Sir Penrose explaining where I got all this cool merch, and yes you are right slightly drunk party curious soul, this is indeed a black hole on my beanie, from the mf-best ever crafted physics channel merchandising.
I like the new branding. That logo is snazzy
Great vid
Firstly, I absolutely love the channel and your content! Two scientific questions related to the visuals.
1. Why did you show high energy (gamma rays) on the left side and low energy (infra red) on the right?
2. @3:15 - @3:25 is this a scientifically accurate representation of a black hole from the observer's perspective?
Keep on doing what you do, it's a breath of fresh air. ❤
1.) Left-right is used to signify progress or increase. Usually this is from low to high, so high frequencies are on the right.However in this case it is intended to show the progress of redshift, so the reverse is true.The most progressed, redshifted wavelengths are shown on the right.
2.) The rendering at 3:15 is artistic, but based on models and meant to show the temperature of the accretion disk (Red vs blue color) as well as waves in the disk as matter orbits. It is an artistic rendering of what is considered a good scientific model.
I've never heard a good explanation of direct collapse black holes until now