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Title: The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
Added: Sep 28, 2009
Author: SpaceRip
Duration: 18:48
Description:
Watch commercial free on the SpaceRip App, available on the Apple and Google Play stores. How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide?We've never seen them directly... yet we know they are there... Lurking within dense star clusters... Or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy.... Where they prey on stars... Or swallow planets whole.Our Milky Way may harbor millions of these black holes... the ultra dense remnants of dead stars.But now, in the universe far beyond our galaxy, there's evidence of something even more ominous... A breed of black holes that have reached incomprehensible size and destructive power.It has taken a new era in astronomy to find them... High-tech instruments in space tuned to sense high-energy forms of light -- x-rays and gamma rays -- that are invisible to our eyes. New precision telescopes equipped with technologies that allow them to cancel out the blurring effects of the atmosphere...and see to the far reaches of the universe.Peering into distant galaxies, astronomers are now finding evidence that space and time can be shattered by eruptions so vast they boggle the mind.We are just beginning to understand the impact these outbursts have had on the universe around us.That understanding recently took a leap forward. A team operating at the Subaru Observatory atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano looked out to one of the deepest reaches of the universe... And captured a beam of light that had taken nearly 13 billion years to reach us.It was a messenger from a time not long after the universe was born. They focused on an object known as a quasar... short for "quasi-stellar radio source."It offered a stunning surprise...A tiny region in its center is so bright that astronomers believe it's light is coming from a single object at least a billion times the mass of our sun... Inside this brilliant beacon, space suddenly turns dark... as it's literally swallowed by a giant black hole. As strange as they may seem, even huge black holes like these are thought to be products of the familiar universe of stars and gravity. They get their start in rare types of large stars... at least ten times the mass of our sun. These giants burn hot and fast... and die young.The star is a cosmic pressure-cooker. In its core, the crush of gravity produces such intense heat that atoms are stripped and rearranged. Lighter elements like hydrogen and helium fuse together to form heavier ones like calcium, oxygen, silicon, and finally iron. When enough iron accumulates in the core of the star, it begins to collapse under its own weight. That can send a shock wave racing outward... Literally blowing the star apart:...a supernova. At the moment the star dies, if enough matter falls into its core, it collapses to a point, forming a black hole.Intense gravitational forces surround that point with a dark sphere... the event horizon... beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape. That's how an average-size black hole forms.What about a monster the size of the Subaru quasar?Recent discoveries about the rapid rise of these giant black holes have led theorists to rethink their view of cosmic history.
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Youtube Comments: 21220
TheMathShaman Says:
May 28, 2012 - Why does it have to be a "creator" entity that is separate from the universe? Why can't the universe generate itself over time in the same way that a flower blooms? What if the universe IS God? How does one define God, anyway? Does God need to be conscious, or can it just run like a machine does? Where did God come from? Does God need logical justification? Does the universe need logical justification? What fundamental forces are responsible for the nature of God? Does God control those forces?
sesenke Says:
May 28, 2012 - It's the selective acknowledgement of science and individual pride causing unreasonable arguments. Relativity and Quantum theory form the backbone of modern technology benefiting us daily, while they are also the foundation of modern astronomy, yet so many taking technology for granted despise astronomy because it contradicts their personal believes--- and pride, the pride of thinking humans are higher than anything else in the world, thus the denial of any facts that are incomprehensible.
aerotem Says:
May 28, 2012 - I guess logic isn't really one of your strongsuits huh.
EPICsliceOFcake Says:
May 28, 2012 - No. The fool is the one who thinks they know enough about the universe to state that it must have a creator.
pdddddp1 Says:
May 28, 2012 - The good thing is, we are all gonna find out if LONGJOHNNEY is right or wrong,Hebrews 9:27 says, "it IS appointed for man once to die, and after this the judgement" God commanded death as penalty....That's GOIN to happen, you can't debate that! Then we will all find out if God exist for sure....cause you GONNA die...an appt that can't be missed...God says so....be wise enuff to seek Him on THIS side of the grave.....John3:16. He is.
pdddddp1 Says:
May 28, 2012 - Tellum again longjohnney,tellum again.
Al3xGamble Says:
May 28, 2012 - When a star runs out of fuel, it sometimes collapses on itself creating a black hole. The mass of the star stays the same, however its volume significantly decreases. This creates a large gravitational field that, when an object comes near, is sucked in and becomes part of the singularity (centre mass of the black hole). Some people also think that the Black Hole is a sort of time travel device, or a gateway to a "White Hole", one that spits out mass and energy, but these are just theories.
D123DannyB Says:
May 28, 2012 - fuck that shit, Relgion is not the reason of War, it might be apart, but very slim. the reason of War is because people are greedy, chances are they are poeple like you! poeple want more and more then people fight for it...asshole
MarFish101 Says:
May 28, 2012 - Religious people like you are their own breed of fools!
GotThaPeng Says:
May 28, 2012 - its also possible it could be a monopole in space and our galaxy is just random space junk trapped in its magnetic field being spun around at extreme speed i think it is not entirely impossible our universe is the inside of a black hole a pocket of the real universe and that we are as small as subatomic particles to the outside universe, theorizing of-course.
MarFish101 Says:
May 28, 2012 - You know Americans were the ones to name it the "hamburger galaxy" 14:45.
longjohnney1 Says:
May 29, 2012 - God has given us ALL his word to go by, lead and direct our paths to him. Its our own CHOICE whether or not we accept it. God doesn't FORCE his will upon anybody. Jesus came that we might have life so its really "our choice, we choose our own destiney "life with him" (the cross) or death (our own self centered, self rightous will which leads us to hell.) Your choice by what you "sow" throughout your life... its as simple as that. Believe it or not..!? But you will ALL SEE!
herpes010 Says:
May 29, 2012 - Chuck Norris' toilet bowl..
longjohnney1 Says:
May 29, 2012 - God is creator of the seen and un-seen. He is ruler over everything and regulator of this universe. Keeping everything in its place holding all its elements together and keeping us from all being obliterated! He is coming again to cleanse this world of evil.. this time its going to be with his FIRE! Jesus came so that we might have life. We can save ourselves in him ONLY! To those who believe he shall make children of God.
JoeVA81 Says:
May 29, 2012 - Time to start funding NASA.
iWarriorable Says:
May 29, 2012 - Allah Is The Only God Thers No God Named Jesus Only Allah Is The God Of Evreything
keiichicute Says:
May 29, 2012 - Why dont mind ur own business,,anyway its still true..
DrKarot7760 Says:
May 29, 2012 - difference between normal and brain washed.
DrKarot7760 Says:
May 29, 2012 - whats oj, orange juice?
yajia1 Says:
May 29, 2012 - because people like you tolerates and campaigns ignorance. as though you dont use computer and internet connection made by science.
vish3386 Says:
May 29, 2012 - foolish black holes try to eat VY canis majoris
Moonfeather100 Says:
May 29, 2012 - VY canis majoris will eat the black hole lol
S2Cents Says:
May 28, 2012 - Is there a universe inside your black hole?