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  • Опубліковано 3 жов 2017
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    So what happens when two Super Massive Black Holes collide? We may be about to find out, because astronomers have spotted a pair of them in a close binary orbit for the very first time.
    This episode of Space Time Journal Club discusses:
    "A candidate sub-parsec binary black hole in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7674", Kharb, Lal & Merritt 2017
    arxiv.org/abs/1709.06258
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    In this video, we discuss the reports about the detection of a pair of supermassive black holes orbiting only one light year apart from each other. Studying the dance of these giants should tell us a ton about how black holes grow. This paper was just published in Nature Astronomy by Preeti Kharb and Dharam Vir Lal from India’s National Center for Radio Astrophysics, and David Merritt from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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  • @Yal_Rathol
    @Yal_Rathol 6 років тому +124

    the best part is always seeing how you figure out to end on "spacetime".

    • @ninizeldav7174
      @ninizeldav7174 3 роки тому

      I totally agree! And I love it!

    • @gandalf8216
      @gandalf8216 2 роки тому

      I, too, love
      Spacetime.

    • @frzferdinand72
      @frzferdinand72 2 роки тому +1

      Class: "Say the line, Matt!"
      Matt: "...of spacetime"
      Class: "YAY!"

  • @MidnightAmratha
    @MidnightAmratha 5 років тому +53

    Imagine the precision of radio interferometry with stations placed on the moon combined with the stations placed here on earth

    • @kylieschultz6971
      @kylieschultz6971 4 роки тому

      MidnightAmratha bnbn

    • @michelleobamafootcream9292
      @michelleobamafootcream9292 3 роки тому

      you

    • @findantu
      @findantu 2 роки тому +2

      I honestly don't think we'll ever serious go into space in the next 100 years. when the moon landings occured we had a chance to basically turn it into the old west and just explore but we decided to invest in nukes and at this point that kinda involvement from the public and the money won't be there .
      think buck Rogers and commando Cody and flash Gordon we shoulda just been making the tech nonstop but alas we prefer greed and fantasy to investment and reality.
      look at airplanes the first one was godawful now we got a stealth bomber that can swoop the whole planet in about 4 hours.
      we shoulda put that kinda effort into it.

    • @branominal8564
      @branominal8564 2 роки тому

      @@findantu sadly any country with enough wealth to put into that level of scientific advancement is too busy protecting that wealth by investing most of it into their military

    • @defeatSpace
      @defeatSpace 2 роки тому

      @@findantu We're actually at that point now because countries like the U.S. are in the process of privatizing spacefaring operations, and the result will be far more commercial.

  • @eoinh
    @eoinh 6 років тому +7

    I visited NYC there a while back, and honestly the best part of that trip was at the Science Centre when in my wandering I walked into a blackroom and then randomly heard Matt's detatched voice speaking to me about black holes.

  • @jonatanromanowski9519
    @jonatanromanowski9519 6 років тому +14

    Matt is definitely getting revved up, and episodes get emotionally moving. That's really good, you're the best, Matt!

  • @seventyfive7597
    @seventyfive7597 6 років тому +98

    So I'm subscriber #1000000. This just became a super-massive channel.

    • @sam5605
      @sam5605 6 років тому +4

      hey thats me don cheat u little fuck

    • @danielwoods3896
      @danielwoods3896 5 років тому +3

      There were probably several

  • @Aiden-zi3xf
    @Aiden-zi3xf 6 років тому +567

    "only 1 light year apart"

    • @Yal_Rathol
      @Yal_Rathol 6 років тому +88

      well, when you're multiple light years across, one more isn't much. it's like saying "only a foot apart" on human scales.

    • @KaKam0u
      @KaKam0u 6 років тому +77

      Much closer than the distance between the sun and any other star; on astronomical scale it's very close

    • @DKRCecer
      @DKRCecer 6 років тому +81

      I'm just glad we don't have a SMBH 1 lightyear away from us :D

    • @shadow_psych7069
      @shadow_psych7069 6 років тому +32

      In terms of cosmic distances, that's like the distance to your next-door nieghbors' house. :P

    • @jam4541
      @jam4541 6 років тому +46

      Its a long way away but those fuckers are hUGE

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 6 років тому +626

    Sometimes I wish quasars could just talk it out like adults.

    • @seansteel3326
      @seansteel3326 6 років тому +67

      They are just trying to get together. Why are you against two quasars in love?

    • @Enourmousletters
      @Enourmousletters 6 років тому +47

      I Identify as a Quasar

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 6 років тому +41

      Whirling about violently and expelling a mass of hot gas? That's how adults around here talk things out.

    • @zes3813
      @zes3813 6 років тому +1

      wrg, talk it out is not adults or not. do anyx nmw, can fight etc.

    • @johncnorris
      @johncnorris 6 років тому +8

      Don't get involved. You'll wind up being labeled as the bad guy and neither of them will talk to you.

  • @Kage848
    @Kage848 6 років тому +23

    Congrats on 1 million subs. Love the channel!

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 3 роки тому +2

      It's 2 million now, i'm from the future

  • @hilariousharry1890
    @hilariousharry1890 6 років тому +3

    This channel deserves more subs than pewdiepie!

  • @hexhexom7189
    @hexhexom7189 6 років тому +209

    I feel like "When Quasars Collide" would be a really good romance title for some reason.

    • @clutch1141
      @clutch1141 6 років тому +37

      Hex Hexom Two smbh's penetrate each other in super hot binary frenzy.

    • @hexhexom7189
      @hexhexom7189 6 років тому +9

      John Lacy Exactly, rated R romance

    • @jessicacaleno1998
      @jessicacaleno1998 6 років тому +12

      lol its funny coz in futurama they had a romantic episode where there was a quasar

    • @stevenrockwell8256
      @stevenrockwell8256 6 років тому +4

      Neutron star collision?

    • @BattousaiHBr
      @BattousaiHBr 6 років тому +8

      "when matter and anti-matter collide"
      a tragedy romance story.

  • @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs
    @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs 6 років тому +225

    A galaxy sized LIGO sounds reasonable. 👌
    Let's build it! 👍

    • @davidlee5087
      @davidlee5087 6 років тому +9

      I'm in.

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 6 років тому +20

      Simple enough, it uses neutron stars throughout our galaxy as the detector. All we need is to keep track of them, it should be online within a decade or so.

    • @fedewar96
      @fedewar96 6 років тому +7

      Wait a minute, Asimov

    • @empireempire3545
      @empireempire3545 6 років тому +6

      To build it we need a lot of LEGO...

    • @CrniWuk
      @CrniWuk 6 років тому +5

      It's all actually covered by Trumps tax reform.

  • @Bulvoxzz
    @Bulvoxzz 6 років тому +3

    God I love this series. Thank you so much for everyone who can support this channel. I get all giddy when I see a new space time vid

  • @erik-ic3tp
    @erik-ic3tp 6 років тому +38

    I just got home from a public lecture (in Maastricht) about Erik Verlindes theory of gravity.
    I hope that PBS Space Time will do a future episode about entropic gravity.

    • @billabong0693
      @billabong0693 6 років тому

      erik2000 gravity is the distortion of electrons forming electric dipoles.

    • @FairyRat
      @FairyRat 6 років тому +3

      u wot m8?

    • @Tehom1
      @Tehom1 6 років тому +6

      Entropic gravity is interesting but one problem with it is that it needs a preferred frame of reference for all that protein-like entropic work to happen in. This makes it hard to reconcile with general relativity.

    • @reilithion
      @reilithion 6 років тому +3

      Nah. We already heard about modified Newtonian dynamics. Dark matter is just too good an explanation for the phenomena we observe in the larger universe. Also, entropic gravity looks like it might be inconsistent with some observations ( arxiv.org/abs/1706.00785 ).

    • @billabong0693
      @billabong0693 6 років тому +1

      Dark matter is invented because they wont factor in something as simple as electrical energy. YOU CANNOT CREATE MAGNETIC FIELDS WITHOUT ELECTRICAL CURRENTS.....take off your blinders, electrical energy holds galaxies together and explains their motions.

  • @CuriouslyHere
    @CuriouslyHere 6 років тому +73

    I have never been so hype for a merger! Thanks for the amazing content!

    • @joeyhitatchi4710
      @joeyhitatchi4710 6 років тому +5

      Curiously there's an app; Appygeek it's called, and they are good at providing you with updated science and technology articles. There was an article about this on there, and they'll probably continue to update. 👍

    • @Daccura
      @Daccura 6 років тому +2

      Git: Merge conflinct

  • @TheEthAg
    @TheEthAg 6 років тому +2

    This is honestly the best show on UA-cam.

  • @GB3770
    @GB3770 6 років тому +1

    i love quasars - they are my fav object - if i think about them for more than 5 or 10 mins i get utterly awed by the numbers and my head explodes...

  • @battmann678
    @battmann678 6 років тому +83

    I made cooked pudding today and didn't burn it.

  • @MirceaKitsune
    @MirceaKitsune 6 років тому +4

    1:44 The meme "I came with the power of a thousand suns" has forever lost its grandeur.

  • @bormisha
    @bormisha 6 років тому +6

    Being myself a physicist, I can agree with the advise given to younger ones who are interested. And be prepared: it would take a lot of math. So much math that it's too much for many people. And remember: the school math and physics is a joke compared to the university program. If you excel in math at school, you may still be overwhelmed at the university. Therefore use every opportunity to improve your knowledge before it gets too late (like, 2 days before the exam).

  • @deusexaethera
    @deusexaethera 5 років тому +2

    I love the bit of pwnage at the end.

  • @alwysrite
    @alwysrite 6 років тому +4

    love the narration as much as the subject matter.

  • @leberserk9341
    @leberserk9341 6 років тому +3

    I always hated physics, and most of that hate was based on the fact that I couldn't ever focus enough on what the teachers were saying.They used only the "write here, talk a bit about it there" approach and because of that I couldn't EVER care to get interested enough to focus on what was being taught.
    That said, PBS Space Time videos made me want to learn more physics.You guys talk about it, show how it is or how it should work, give image and/or what's necessary to make people understand what you're trying to teach.
    If schools taught like you people do, I'm sure a lot of kids would be more open to learn physics and other subjects like chemistry or mathematics.

  • @prdoyle
    @prdoyle 5 років тому

    Every part of this video is mind-blowing.

  • @catherinehubbard1167
    @catherinehubbard1167 4 роки тому

    Again a very clear and fascinating explanation. Thank you.

  • @erik-ic3tp
    @erik-ic3tp 6 років тому +188

    Dear PBS Space Time,
    Is it possible to do a future episode about the Kardashev scale?
    Yours faithfully,
    Erik de Wilde

    • @coolkatmehrfth
      @coolkatmehrfth 6 років тому +10

      erik2000 they've touched on it in earlier episodes, but they've never covered it explicitly. Would be cool, but idk if it warrants an entire episode.

    • @BattousaiHBr
      @BattousaiHBr 6 років тому +27

      for a moment i thought you meant the kardashian scale.
      glad i got that wrong.

    • @MegaHarko
      @MegaHarko 6 років тому +26

      If you're interested in the topic (and not in the take on it by PBS specifically) you could try Isaac Arthurs and Fraser Cains channels. I think both had it covered

    • @papasierra2497
      @papasierra2497 6 років тому +3

      This^

    • @KylePoni23
      @KylePoni23 6 років тому +4

      John Michael Godier touches on it quite a bit as well

  • @reverend900
    @reverend900 6 років тому +3

    Holy shit. They written it a Mile away from my home in India. I had no knowledge of this kinda research going on. Damn it
    Thanks

  • @axeell8192
    @axeell8192 6 років тому +1

    Very good quality,as always.

  • @ddorman365
    @ddorman365 5 років тому

    Thank you Family that is beautiful, peace and love, Doug:)

  • @michaelsommers2356
    @michaelsommers2356 6 років тому +7

    The 'μ' in question was not a super- or subscript, it was just a factor. Someone left out the '_' or '^', whichever was needed.

  • @jonathanpoole1293
    @jonathanpoole1293 3 роки тому +3

    This was really interesting to watch considering now that we've detected dozens of these. With this whole new way to observe our cosmos we can detect things we've never been able to before. The first merger between a black hole and a neutron star has already been observed. What an amazing time we live in!

    • @realzachfluke1
      @realzachfluke1 2 роки тому

      Amen to that, brother! And now humanity is reaching out our collective distant, yet steady hand once again to explore the known and the unknown in our universe like never before, of course I mean with the currently-on-its-way-to-L2 James Webb Space Telescope after all of those years of the indescribably difficult and creative work the world's best scientists and engineers put in for the advancement of all humanity.
      Exciting times indeed, if not also bizarre and uncertain lol.

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl Рік тому

      *You*-yes*You* yourself have " detected these things have?
      No, I rather though not, all you are doing is repeating " teacher says" are you not?
      When you use the word " we" for all practical purposes you are saying " I" whether you like it or not, and when you say you*-yes you* sunshine have not detected anything, so that is not exactly strictly true , is it? There is a word for those that say things that are not true, and I suppose religious will embrace that adequately, but no matter, " teacher says" these things, and like good credulous little child you accept everything and anything that " teacher says". You yourself- yes*you* titch, have never " detected" anything of the sort have you?
      It'all right, you can say, I know that perfectly well. " we", my arse!

  • @masterofThardus
    @masterofThardus 6 років тому

    You guys provide a lot of great inspiration for writing sci-fi.

  • @cheaterman49
    @cheaterman49 6 років тому +1

    Hahahaha, that ending was great :-) keep these awesome episodes coming!

  • @Rubbergnome
    @Rubbergnome 6 років тому +13

    Matt, I didn't say anything about superscript or subscript. On the video there is W\mu instead of W_\mu (or W^\mu, for that matter). It is just a small typo, nothing like what you said. But that's a nuisance :)

    • @OktayDogangun
      @OktayDogangun 6 років тому +5

      Yes you're right: the symbol \mu was written directly on the line, not as a subscript. An underscore is missing in its LaTeX code :)

    • @pbsspacetime
      @pbsspacetime  6 років тому +10

      Oops! I see what you mean now. Apologies for the misinterpretation, and for the LaTeX fail.

    • @Rubbergnome
      @Rubbergnome 6 років тому +6

      PBS Space Time no worries, just trying to help an amazing channel :D keep it up!

    • @WilliamDye-willdye
      @WilliamDye-willdye 6 років тому +2

      I wish UA-cam comment threads were easier to follow. This thread now spans three videos, but it's nontrivial to search for a comment in a single video, much less connect them across videos. Maybe Google Wave was shut down too soon after all.

    • @ZekePolarisBSH
      @ZekePolarisBSH 5 років тому

      If it was a typo, then it can be easily fixed.

  • @imgelfand2327
    @imgelfand2327 6 років тому +4

    Do a video explaining the Navier Stokes equations and why they're so hard to solve. Also one on what entropy is. I find entropy to be a very hard concept to understand, especially its mathematical form.

  • @andreasm2287
    @andreasm2287 6 років тому

    Congrats on 1 mil subs. Definitely deserved!

  • @axeell8192
    @axeell8192 6 років тому +1

    My teacher's motto is "I don't want to believe,I want to know" and I agree.

  • @Cubinator73
    @Cubinator73 6 років тому +6

    As a little kid I learned about black holes as things catching everything nearby and not letting it escape, so naturally my first question was "What happens, if two black holes meet each other? They cannot not escape each other, only one can escape the other, right?" Looking back now, this question seems too funny to me :)
    (Though my teachers never attempted to answer this question...)

  • @Eric-kb2xt
    @Eric-kb2xt 6 років тому +34

    I have to wonder if scientists lovingly refer to SMBSs as sumbitches. That's what I think every time I hear it.

    • @angelathomas6773
      @angelathomas6773 4 роки тому +4

      Do you mean SMBHs?

    • @frankdimeglio8216
      @frankdimeglio8216 2 роки тому

      @@angelathomas6773 THE ULTIMATE, TOP DOWN, AND CLEAR MATHEMATICAL PROOF REGARDING THE FACT THAT E=MC2 IS F=MA:
      Time dilation ultimately proves ON BALANCE that E=mc2 IS F=ma, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Time is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity ON BALANCE. Gravity is ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy.
      Great !!!! QUANTUM GRAVITY !!!! E=MC2 IS F=ma. This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND DESCRIBES what is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE. What are the EARTH/ground AND the SUN are CLEARLY E=MC2 AND F=ma IN BALANCE. Very importantly, outer "space" involves full inertia; AND it is fully invisible AND black. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. It does ALL CLEARLY make perfect sense. GOT IT !!!! THE SKY is BLUE, AND THE EARTH is ALSO BLUE. Great !!! Now, think about the man who IS standing on what is THE EARTH/ground. Perfect !!!!
      By Frank DiMeglio

  • @michaelelbert5798
    @michaelelbert5798 5 років тому +1

    Yeah I am really looking forward to seeing where you get your Galaxy size ligo.

  • @CrniWuk
    @CrniWuk 6 років тому +2

    You know a physics chanel is great, when you're 30 seconds in and your mind says just "nope, I am out here!" while you're still fascinated.

  • @PrincessTS01
    @PrincessTS01 5 років тому +3

    A planet and a Active galactic nuclei walk in to a bar, the bar tender asks what will it be, the planet says water, the AGN says ill take everything...

  • @The_SCPFoundation
    @The_SCPFoundation 6 років тому +39

    4:50 is proof we live in a simulation. That's an Xbox one controller 😂⚛️🎮

    • @ive_y
      @ive_y 4 роки тому

      Okay then I believe you

    • @okamijubei
      @okamijubei 4 роки тому

      I see what you mean

  • @mperlatti
    @mperlatti Рік тому

    Hanging out in the Null Point between these monsters of gravity would be a hoot!

  • @Goreuncle
    @Goreuncle 6 років тому

    Don't ever stop, Matt. Keep the nectar of the nerds coming, ^^

  • @fredericklehoux7160
    @fredericklehoux7160 6 років тому +43

    4:35 gosh they found a giant xbox controller in space. AWESOME

    • @UpcycleElectronics
      @UpcycleElectronics 6 років тому +2

      You've seen reality. We are all part of your Xbox simulated reality.

    • @gingataisen
      @gingataisen 5 років тому +1

      I wonder if the rubberized grips stay in place, though.

  • @pooshpoosh9232
    @pooshpoosh9232 6 років тому +13

    #PBSspacetime please make a video about how the electron degeneracy pressure holds up the metalic core of a dead-non neutron-star , and why some neutron-star cores can't heat enough neutron degeneracy to win from gravity

    • @billabong0693
      @billabong0693 6 років тому

      Putasso Putasso lol they make this up to explain neutron degeneration,, wow, we need science to come back like the early 20th century.

    • @pooshpoosh9232
      @pooshpoosh9232 6 років тому +4

      DOOM Guy what?

    • @frankdimeglio8216
      @frankdimeglio8216 2 роки тому

      @@billabong0693 THE ULTIMATE, TOP DOWN, AND CLEAR MATHEMATICAL PROOF REGARDING THE FACT THAT E=MC2 IS F=MA:
      Time dilation ultimately proves ON BALANCE that E=mc2 IS F=ma, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Time is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity ON BALANCE. Gravity is ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy.
      Great !!!! QUANTUM GRAVITY !!!! E=MC2 IS F=ma. This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND DESCRIBES what is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE. What are the EARTH/ground AND the SUN are CLEARLY E=MC2 AND F=ma IN BALANCE. Very importantly, outer "space" involves full inertia; AND it is fully invisible AND black. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. It does ALL CLEARLY make perfect sense. GOT IT !!!! THE SKY is BLUE, AND THE EARTH is ALSO BLUE. Great !!! Now, think about the man who IS standing on what is THE EARTH/ground. Perfect !!!!
      By Frank DiMeglio

  • @bellsTheorem1138
    @bellsTheorem1138 6 років тому +1

    Dropped "Pulsar Timing Array" on us then ""More on that at another time". Better be next episode. ☺

  • @pietgodaard4610
    @pietgodaard4610 4 роки тому

    great work

  • @magnummax78
    @magnummax78 6 років тому +10

    3:29 So, since we are looking back over 400 million years, then it's possible that this merger has already occurred some time ago?! Cool!

    • @AtlasReburdened
      @AtlasReburdened 6 років тому +2

      magnummax78 everything you see occurred in the past.

    • @mikeclarke952
      @mikeclarke952 6 років тому +1

      and we are waiting for the electromagnetic and gravity wave pulse to arrive, yes.

    • @rykehuss3435
      @rykehuss3435 6 років тому

      Mike kirock No we arent. Its going to take millions of years on the minimum. We're going to be long extinct by then.

    • @TheDarkToes
      @TheDarkToes 5 років тому +1

      @@rykehuss3435 wow are you from the future? Dang! Tell me more

    • @rykehuss3435
      @rykehuss3435 5 років тому

      TheDarkToes Do you know what evolution is? Humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) are going to be extinct by then. Either we destroy the planet's habitat, nuke ourselves, an asteroid hits, or we just evolve into a new sub-species. In either way, humans as we know it wont be around.

  • @hellomynameisrodney
    @hellomynameisrodney 6 років тому +20

    That's what it's like when Quasars collide! -- Powerman 5000 ???

    • @NotStellarNoja
      @NotStellarNoja 6 років тому +6

      Are you spinning with me? Ya I'm spinning with you. Crap we're gonna hit, Quasar, Quasar.

    • @paultorbert6929
      @paultorbert6929 6 років тому

      haha. nice..... i see whatcha did there, werld to quazar..... nice.

    • @KC-ql6dd
      @KC-ql6dd 5 років тому +1

      Thank god I'm not the only person who thought of this band when i saw this video

  • @jvtps765
    @jvtps765 6 років тому

    Congratz on 1mil subscribers :)

  • @domeeducation
    @domeeducation 6 років тому

    I believe you stopped the annoying sound effects! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Happy to make a contribution!

  • @TheExoplanetsChannel
    @TheExoplanetsChannel 6 років тому +80

    *Q: How does one astronaut on the moon tell another astronaut that he is sorry?*
    *A: He Apollo-gises.*

  • @aluisious
    @aluisious 6 років тому +43

    "About to merge." Won't move noticeably closer to each other before everyone watching this video is dead.

    • @watsisname
      @watsisname 6 років тому +9

      In an astronomical sense, it is very close and closer than anything we have seen so far.

    • @rykehuss3435
      @rykehuss3435 6 років тому +9

      *before every human on the planet has been long dead, is more likely.

    • @ricardosiervi1367
      @ricardosiervi1367 6 років тому +27

      Well, that galaxy is millions of light years away. For all we know, they may have already merged...

    • @mrfreeman1763
      @mrfreeman1763 6 років тому +2

      Nice to see someone was paying attention.

    • @bodhikai2505
      @bodhikai2505 3 роки тому

      well they said they were 1 light year apart. it could be feasible for us to see it happen.

  • @S3lvah
    @S3lvah 6 років тому

    Congratulations on 1,000,040 subscribers!

  • @bretmilner255
    @bretmilner255 6 років тому

    I speak English, but i don't understand. ...yet i keep on watching these. ..

  • @leaderofcommunistchina1427
    @leaderofcommunistchina1427 6 років тому +8

    Do black holes merge when their event horizons cross or when their singularities merge? Also, are event horizons perfect spheres? because the animation of two black holes merging showed their event horizons stretching towards each other. This confused me because if the mass of a black hole is all concentrated in a singularity, doesn't that mean the event horizon would be in equal distance in all directions, making it a sphere? And how can singularities merge in the first place? wouldn't they just keep spinning faster and faster, never being able to reach each other because they are defined as points, which cannot occupy the same place because that would imply they have volume... SO MANY QUESTIONS!!!

    • @watsisname
      @watsisname 6 років тому +2

      1 and 2) There is a notion of an event horizon as a "trapped surface", where anything inside is doomed to fall into the singularity because even at the speed of light it cannot escape. When two black holes are about to merge, a trapped surface reaches out from each black hole and connects them. The moment they touch is called the moment of the merger.
      3) The singularities do meet up, quite rapidly. Newtons Laws would suggest that they would just orbit each other, but in General Relativity, there are no orbits close to or inside a black hole. In fact, the singularities are impossible to avoid once inside. They are stronger gravitational attractors than anything in Newtonian gravity. :)

    • @Tore_Lund
      @Tore_Lund 6 років тому +1

      Question: what about time dilation inside the event horizon? Is it possible that the singularities never merge? I remember reading about imagined ring shaped singularities in rotating black holes. If neutron stars can rotate with thousands of RPM (surface speed of 25% light speed), orbiting singularities should be even more extreme, so even if all possible futures inside the black hole ends at the singularity, it could possibly take an infinite amount of time for the singularities to merge?

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 6 років тому +1

      No; this is due to relativity. Inside the 'photon sphere', about 50% larger than the event horizon itself, an object would need to orbit faster than light. As such NO stable orbits exist closer in; anything there must spiral in to the center at some rate. As such even a singularity orbiting another at light speed will merger with it in a certain period of time, a very short one too.

    • @ZekePolarisBSH
      @ZekePolarisBSH 5 років тому

      +watsisname The way you worded all that didn't match how it really is. Speed of light is not the actual speed, that is just saying that light can't escape, it doesn't need to have any speed, no matter how fast it is going it is still getting sucked up into the multiverse's strongest Kirby. xD

    • @ZekePolarisBSH
      @ZekePolarisBSH 5 років тому

      Also everyone in this section has no clue how things works around here, one of you guys sounds like you are saying that the singularity is bigger than the event horizon.... The event horizon is never the same, there are different ones out there.

  • @TheMrGoncharov
    @TheMrGoncharov 6 років тому +4

    what will be the result of these SMBHs merger? what gravitational waves they will produce during merger in comparison with the events already registered by ligo?

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 6 років тому

      The waves will be very powerful, but also low frequency, they'd be more like tides than the quick wriggles that LIGO can handle.

  • @IITRKLKO
    @IITRKLKO 6 років тому

    At 4:38 the image that shows radio image of the quasar binary, credit says TIFR-NCRA, It is an Indian institute (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research - National Centre for Radio Astrophysics). I wish that the narrator should have mentioned about their contribution also.

  • @richarddeese1991
    @richarddeese1991 4 роки тому

    Thanks! @4:36 - looks like a game controller! :O tavi.

  • @derekrishel7782
    @derekrishel7782 6 років тому +9

    Love these videos. They are fantastic. Do you think LIGO will detect a disturbance in Space Time if your SMBE (Super Massive Brown Eyebrows) ever merge? Keep up the great work!

    • @TheCimbrianBull
      @TheCimbrianBull 6 років тому

      LOL! :-)

    • @Deeplycloseted435
      @Deeplycloseted435 6 років тому +3

      Those eyebrows are creating incredible tidal forces on one another, at some point as he ages, the curvature of space time may effect his vision as gravitational lensing occurs.

    • @TheCimbrianBull
      @TheCimbrianBull 6 років тому

      Kevin Harris
      Your comment nearly made me pee my pants! LOL! :-)

  • @AliHSyed
    @AliHSyed 6 років тому +3

    Galactic Black Holes would be a better name.

  • @aurelienb3984
    @aurelienb3984 4 роки тому

    One hypothesis about Seyfert galaxies is that they are just as powerful as quasars (around 10^38 - 10^40 W), but the difference is that the jet of the quasars is pointing towards us, while the jet of Seyfert galaxies isn't, which makes them look much dimmer

  • @AHKSAIR
    @AHKSAIR 6 років тому +1

    HAPPY 1 MILLION

  • @stylz1
    @stylz1 6 років тому +4

    Whenever I want to feel stupid, I just come watch these videos.

  • @glennzircalt2254
    @glennzircalt2254 6 років тому +35

    do more quantum mechanics and quantum theory

    • @glennzircalt2254
      @glennzircalt2254 6 років тому +3

      pls more quaNTUM physics or pbs qauntum pls make it

    • @Sam_on_YouTube
      @Sam_on_YouTube 6 років тому +4

      You should watch the Looking Glass Universe channel. She doesn't have the same budget and is too busy with her PhD program to post regularly, but the content that's there on quantum os fantastic. Better than this channel. Matt's expertise is really astrophysics. He can do quantum, but it isn't his main thing.

  • @ExzcellionGamma
    @ExzcellionGamma 6 років тому

    3k subscribers left for a million!
    Keep the subs coming and PBS Space-time expanding!

  • @Gbag34
    @Gbag34 6 років тому

    Congrats on 1M

  • @charlie22911
    @charlie22911 6 років тому +18

    #PBSspacetime Question, so the magnetic field generated by the accretion disk of a supermassive black hole permeates the space around it. What happens to magnetic field lines that cross the event horizon? Magnetic monopole?

    • @mikeclarke952
      @mikeclarke952 6 років тому +18

      The magnetic field that we see in Quasars is produced by charged particles accelerating around the black hole Outside the event horizon. Once the particles fall within the event horizon their creation (w.r.t us) of magnetic field lines ceases to exist. At this point it doesn't matter if the charged particle is still producing a magnetic field, no photon created by its energy can escape, so effectively the magnetic field inside the EH is meaningless to us.

    • @robertwhaley4858
      @robertwhaley4858 6 років тому +5

      Great question

    • @cansfwriter
      @cansfwriter 6 років тому

      I think that the field lines would be twisted and snapped close to and at the EH, but intuitively, I think the information of the field's properties are preserved, allowing it to be contiguous.

    • @luudest
      @luudest 6 років тому

      Charlie22911 Good question!

    • @luudest
      @luudest 6 років тому

      Neutron stars produce strong magnetic fields by rotating. How about the magnetic field of a rotating BH which has a tiny bit more mass than that of neutron star (which is below the critical mass for a BH)?

  • @joj1758
    @joj1758 6 років тому +9

    Just about to break 1 million! Keep up the fantastic content!

  • @erik-ic3tp
    @erik-ic3tp 6 років тому

    Congratulations with 1 million subscribers!

  • @ryanw1284ryansrants
    @ryanw1284ryansrants 6 років тому

    13:15 - 13:38 = Best comment rebuttal in the history of Space Time :D

  • @legomainia
    @legomainia 6 років тому +5

    Would like to learn more about Pulsar Timing Arrays. Sounds cool

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 6 років тому +1

      Hope they cover it. You basically use the galaxy's neutron stars as a set of very precise clocks. By tracking them you can tell if their distance from Earth has changed slightly due to gravitational waves.

    • @legomainia
      @legomainia 6 років тому +1

      Its genius!

  • @Seraphim_Belisarius
    @Seraphim_Belisarius 6 років тому +63

    I'm a simple man. When I see a PBS Space Time video, I give it a like.

    • @alanhowitzer
      @alanhowitzer 6 років тому +1

      I like many PBS shows, but unfortunately the network is left leaning and socialist.

    • @The_SCPFoundation
      @The_SCPFoundation 6 років тому

      And be a simpppplllllleeeeee
      Kind of mannn....
      (Can we start that sing along up in here?)

  • @endersteve5839
    @endersteve5839 6 років тому

    Congrats almost 1 mill

  • @vanshnukala2663
    @vanshnukala2663 6 років тому +2

    I like the part from 0:00 to 13:38

  • @superaleste
    @superaleste 6 років тому +2

    What you have found there, is a 360 controller at the centre of a galaxy. Who knew?

  • @sirroondog831
    @sirroondog831 6 років тому +4

    Coming from a masculine concreting australian.... i have man crush on this bloke ..

  • @JoshSideris
    @JoshSideris 6 років тому

    Oh snap. You might hit 1 million subs today. Congrats.

  • @nouvilas42
    @nouvilas42 6 років тому +1

    I think what Rubbergnome meant was that it should have been a subindex ( W_{\mu} ) instead of just concatenated ( W \mu )

  • @UpcycleElectronics
    @UpcycleElectronics 6 років тому +6

    It just dawned on me that we are detecting black hole gravity waves within the core of the audible frequency range 10Hz to 10kHz. How does that work out? Is there potential for a black hole to be audible if it were emerced in a dense gas cloud or induce resonance in certain circumstances?

    • @Tore_Lund
      @Tore_Lund 6 років тому +3

      Gas have to be pretty dense to carry sound, remember the doorbell in the vacuum jar from elementary physics that goes silent when nowhere near a good vacuum is drawn? So you'd have to be unhealthy close to the black holes to hear anything and the gas and you will possibly be plasma at that point. Also the gas can't fall into the black hole at a speed greater than the speed of sound if you want to hear it.

    • @cansfwriter
      @cansfwriter 6 років тому +1

      Gravitational waves could not be directly measured in electromagnetic frequencies. Extremely sensitive laser interferometers measure subtle changes in the dimensions of space. The space between gas particles would compress and expand, but in such a minuscule way that the amount of energy transferred would be overpowered by random background noise. That's my interpretation anyway, I may be wrong.

    • @Mernom
      @Mernom 6 років тому +6

      You can't hear electromagnetic waves with those frequncies, right? The only reason you can hear sound is because our ears are air pressure wave detectors. Those waves are waves in the very fabric of reality.
      If you could record them, and then translate them to sound though... Maybe.

    • @UpcycleElectronics
      @UpcycleElectronics 6 років тому +1

      Marik Zilberman
      Obviously particulate matter is not moving in relation to a static location in the traditional sense, but it is moving in relation to itself and the space between matter. If this movement is capable of creating collisions with a material dense enough to transmit kinetic energy it should produce a wave of energy. It really comes down to the physics. Does the space time wave have enough energy to transmit into kinetic motion?
      Two large, dense, groups of particles are moving through normal space and are on a collision path when a 1000Hz gravity wave passes through their location in space time at the moment collision begins. Is the collision of the particles linear or does the space time wave produce a resonance as the collision is slowed down and sped up?
      If it does, I presume we could call these particles air. Air as we know and love is very energetic. Therefore if we were submerged in said air, and for the sake of argument/scientific understanding, within any hypothetical distance from the source of the gravitational wave, where it would have more energy to transmit, would this produce a sound wave?

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 6 років тому +5

      Gravitational waves can transfer energy to matter via the 'sticky bead mechanism'. The transfer, even to solid matter like the Earth is low (Gravity is weak) They're also quadripolar waves rather than pressure waves like sound. This means that the energy transfer tends to go into heating a material rather than propagating bulk movement on any scale.
      However if you were close enough the difference in energy imparted to solid vs less dense forms of matter should create sound waves. However at that distance your body,nerves and brain would also have energy pumped into them and their structure stressed, which might make the experience... uncomfortable.

  • @pauldacus4590
    @pauldacus4590 4 роки тому +4

    5:24 *WRONG, ALL WRONG!*
    This is proof God plays PS4

  • @jaydencellucci
    @jaydencellucci 6 років тому +1

    Congrats on 1M subscribers

  • @ericcheese7594
    @ericcheese7594 5 років тому

    I got to do an interferometry experiment for my physics course last week!

  • @SupLuiKir
    @SupLuiKir 6 років тому +128

    Ha I got in the comment responses twice in a row!

    • @leaderofcommunistchina1427
      @leaderofcommunistchina1427 6 років тому +7

      its a sign

    • @tranl1050
      @tranl1050 6 років тому +2

      Leader of Communist China What a profile name!

    • @garetclaborn
      @garetclaborn 6 років тому +10

      i don't get it, what's special about a pointer to 65521?

    • @erowidoz
      @erowidoz 6 років тому +5

      A universe that supports life doesn't have odds like a lottery ticket, there are no non winning tickets in this scenario only winners exist.

    • @xavierinthetube
      @xavierinthetube 6 років тому +5

      It's because you have a great user name

  • @spreadlove8624
    @spreadlove8624 6 років тому +22

    I hope the gamma ray burst from the collision won't come our way... 😋😋🙈🙈😂😂🙃🙃

    • @Mernom
      @Mernom 6 років тому +6

      Too far away, and not anytime soon. Plus, do black holes even do those?

    • @bigsadge
      @bigsadge 6 років тому +6

      Bulba-bulba-Bulbasaur

    • @insertname8889
      @insertname8889 6 років тому +1

      Jacinda Lacroix Hope It does

    • @spreadlove8624
      @spreadlove8624 6 років тому +8

      Fuc kYourAds Don't think so significantly of yourself. The universe don't care if you're extinct or not. You're not doing anything any favours by being extinct. And I hope for the day human become type 3 civilisation 😍😍😂😂😋😋

    • @cheeti3513
      @cheeti3513 6 років тому +1

      Jacinda Lacroix I don’t think it will because like everything it will die off since it’s pretty far away

  • @alexjaybrady
    @alexjaybrady 6 років тому

    sick burn at the end

  • @MrTripcore
    @MrTripcore 6 років тому

    Congrats on 1 million subs

  • @merfah7022
    @merfah7022 6 років тому +54

    Who heard "SMByyaatchessss"? xD

  • @Pika250
    @Pika250 6 років тому +22

    No wonder matpat was right when he said the Pokédex was lying about gardevoir

    • @mattalexander8919
      @mattalexander8919 6 років тому

      Pika250 wtf?

    • @Pika250
      @Pika250 6 років тому

      For a black hole, either it's not massive enough to be stable or it's massive enough to destroy Earth

    • @Mernom
      @Mernom 6 років тому +1

      It doesn't have to be stable though. I do agree that some descriptions are on drugs though.

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 6 років тому

      If it's not stable it literally blows up, not good for protecting your trainer either way.

  • @sneakylemon8513
    @sneakylemon8513 3 роки тому

    We have the most adorable scale model of the solar system along the cliff paths of our town and when you said that the SMBH would cover most of our solar system I thought of it in terms of that and finally got an actual idea of how big these things are...and.. I have no words. That's incredible.

    • @sneakylemon8513
      @sneakylemon8513 3 роки тому

      Like earth is about the size of a bead where as this thing is about the size of the school grounds near me.

    • @sneakylemon8513
      @sneakylemon8513 3 роки тому

      And if it's really most of the solar system its basically the size of my town 😂 now that I think of it

  • @elykdogg
    @elykdogg 6 років тому

    Best channel on UA-cam, wish I had money to donate

  • @HappyHighwayman
    @HappyHighwayman 6 років тому +3

    A year away at the speed of light doesn't sound very close

    • @Ty6260
      @Ty6260 6 років тому +1

      Jordan Chandler considering that both of the black holes are literally overpowering lightspeed with gravity it's probably relatively minuscule

    • @HappyHighwayman
      @HappyHighwayman 6 років тому +1

      Thank you for the response. You're of course correct, it's just that due to the size of outer space large distances clearly become matter of fact but are still huge in the scheme of human size :)

    • @rykehuss3435
      @rykehuss3435 6 років тому +1

      Ty6260 "Overpowering lightspeed with gravity" did you get that sentence from a gibberish generator?

    • @Ty6260
      @Ty6260 6 років тому

      Rykehuss Yep.

    • @Mernom
      @Mernom 6 років тому

      Think of it that way: That's closer then the next closest star to US.

  • @RCOATES89
    @RCOATES89 6 років тому +10

    43 seconds ago without a notification? boom

  • @ManicalVale
    @ManicalVale 6 років тому

    In case you clicked this video wondering how to make an apple pie, here is the recipe:
    Ingredients: 1 recipe pastry for a 9-inch double crust pie, 1/2 cup unsalted butter, 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour, 1/4 cup water, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup packed brown sugar, 8 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and sliced
    Directions: Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar and brown sugar, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer. Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples, mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work crust. Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly so that it does not run off. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft.

  • @MattGalter
    @MattGalter 5 років тому +1

    How does a blackhole absorb "gases from a surrounding galaxy" if space is a vacuum?

  • @losttribe3001
    @losttribe3001 6 років тому +30

    Listen, if you're going to bring up a Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) and not talk about it; then I guess I'll go back to watching Nicki Minaj videos.

    • @j-man72b72
      @j-man72b72 6 років тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/mC5evjfnzA8/v-deo.html

    • @rubinchavarria622
      @rubinchavarria622 6 років тому +1

      I'm the lmao

    • @ZekePolarisBSH
      @ZekePolarisBSH 5 років тому

      Oh god........ XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

    • @ZekePolarisBSH
      @ZekePolarisBSH 5 років тому

      +J-man72 b The guy in the video is having a hard time using the clicker. XD

  • @chuckschickbaldtacos
    @chuckschickbaldtacos 6 років тому +3

    Where have you been?

  • @pravarp
    @pravarp 6 років тому

    Congrats on 1 mil sub... Been here since 60k

  • @istvanbaranyi9702
    @istvanbaranyi9702 6 років тому

    Matt do love quasars :)