JWST finds most distant growing SUPERMASSIVE black hole | Night Sky News July 2023

[@DrBecky]

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[@John.0z]

Hi Becky. I took a rather lucky photo of the "toenail moon" plus Venus, Mars and a few stars - but I do not use the social media platforms you do. Is there another way to send a copy to you?

[@OhAncientOne]

same here I'm YT only. Question, what happens to a photon aimed at a black hole? If it's absorbed, wouldn't black holes be constantly absorbing photons?

[@ReggieArford]

@@OhAncientOne Well, why do you think they're called BLACK?

[@jefflittle8913]

You could talk about why neutrinos are generally not thought to be a candidate for Dark Matter and why some scientists disagree.

[@OhAncientOne]

@@ReggieArford there are several questions implied,; 1. bc gravitational lensing, not all photons are being absorbed . 2. Photons are pure energy but have a mass equivalent being added to the bh. 3. Hawking Radiation, very very tiny loss of mass, does it get overridden by photon absorbtion? So wouldn't start taking effect until x number of star's in a galaxy go dark.?

[@kazang856]

I am so glad an algorithm brought you my way. There are so many space videos that in the end only rehash old information. You are the real deal and I have both enjoyed and learned so much from you.

[@Miguel-Del]

Check out Anton Petrov if you like her videos. He covers news in sciences like physics, biology, astronomy, and fresh studies on our understanding of the universe. I love his channel more than anything, and this one is good too.

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PBS Space Time

[@jackfrosterton4135]

@@jennyanydots2389 I don't get it.

[@SSGLGamesVlogs]

It's funny because, everytime I learn something from Space, it feels like a learned of a new way on how to die/get killed.

[@thomasgoldschmidt298]

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[@tdoubt100]

This is like having a knowledgeable friend tell me about things I thought I could never understand in a way that I'm being talked at and not being lectured to. Thank you so much Dr. Becky.

[@BIGREDDOG09]

yea, she's very talented

[@sharizabel2582]

Best meteor shower I’ve seen was when I was on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. The meteors were non stop and the bio illuminate algae was active in the water. Completely dark sky and it was so beautiful.

[@erichalbert8611]

What year? Between 1999 to 2002 there were a few really good meteor showers that peaked at multiple meteors a second.

[@sharizabel2582]

@@erichalbert8611 it was in 1998

[@NoneYaBidness762]

Those were tomahawks. 😂

[@sharizabel2582]

@@NoneYaBidness762 lol … you jest but we were about to launch

[@nickspanlopis9342]

Dr. Becky, I really want to thank you for the chapters you always seem to include in your videos. My brain recently had a major tumor in it that did a ton of dammage on its removal...so I don't have a very long memory. It is so incredibly helpful to see precisely what I am looking for. Eventually I may be able to actually watch your full video...but I can watch what I can for now.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Insane that IceCube was able to do all of that. Detected neutrinos, the most elusive of subatomic particles, _and_ wrote Straight Outta Compton?!?

[@thehellyousay]

Jack of all trades.

[@francoislacombe9071]

Fun fact. A group of stars that forms a conspicuous pattern, like the summer triangle, Orion's belt or the big dipper, but is not itself a full constellation is called an asterism.

[@nsob8897]

Nice, I always love a new word. Thank you

[@michaellong5714]

Thank you Dr Becky for mentioning 'false color'. I know we (I'm an amateur astronomer and we operate a public observatory and planitarium) want to wow the public with great images of observed objects but at the same time we need to be careful not to disappoint the public when we encourage them to look through a scope and then politely explain why what they're seeing is not exactly what they can view in books or online. That balance makes all the difference. Good job and explanations, I know you're making a difference!

[@Magnumaniac]

I remember the hype, initial disappointment, relief and eventual absolute astonishment as the Hubble sent back its first fully focused pictures. I can feel your palpable excitement as JWST delivers its astonishing results, and envy your chosen career putting you in the middle of these discoveries as they happen. Thank you so very much for sharing (and explaining) these developments to those of thus who wouldn't know where to start looking for the info.

[@uschi414]

"So one of the reasons why I love to watch meteor showers with a group of friends or family because you can all keep an eye out in different parts of the sky so that you don't miss any. " That is SUCH a scientist thing to say!!! I love it. Meteors move so fast that by the time someone looking at a different part of the sky is able to say something and others look that way, the meteor will already be gone. But it's not the individual, it's the collective observations of the group that matter. ❤

[@BG101UK]

@@jennyanydots2389 Please stop making me laugh when I'm supposed to be getting some sleep! I've got to quote that one sometime ...

[@max410bery]

Over one year since I subbed. Over 6 months since I started back at school for physics. Time flies!

[@bruceleenstra6181]

Cool, my favorite Sanet is Platurn too! I love looking at its mings and roons.

[@ehsnils]

When I think of the Big Bang and the uneven distribution of matter I can't help thinking of a Slo Mo Guys episode exploding paint.

[@JoeBeaudette]

100%

[@johnrathbun2943]

You see there was no actual big bang. You see the laws of physics is dismantled in a black hole. The objects that come out of a black hole are locked into the laws of physics from the moment that black hole explodes. This is why the JWST is finding things that don't make sense. They are under a totally different set of laws of physics. The problem with the big bang theory is that most of the galaxy should fall under those sets of physics. But JWST shows that solar systems are not as prevalent as what was thought. So this disproves the theory of the big bang. Now they have their hands full trying to come up with a new theory of how everything began. My belief is that there was no actual starting point, everything just was. Time falls under a physics theory. That's why Time is dismantled when it goes into a black hole. Planets are created from matter that comes out of a black hole. This is why Planets have a time of creation. Hence the earth is only 6 billion years old. So it came out of a black hole 6 billion years ago. But the problem with this theory is that because of volcanism, the surface of the earth is always rejuvenating over and over again. So we don't actually know the true age of the earth. Hence theory! But Planets and moons that are dead to volcanism can be dated to the last time volcanism rejuvenated the solid rocks. So extream forces can effect time.

[@juzoli]

This is my favorite, which helps me understand how very evenly distributed matter breaks into patterns: Two Vortex Rings Colliding in SLOW MOTION - Smarter Every Day 195

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Saw that done on Mythbusters many years ago, too - it's always very cool!

[@AurelienCarnoy]

As space expands it is stripped or unzipped into matter and antimater. That is what you see at the edge of a black hole. Virtual particles "radiating" out. Anti virtual particle falling in. That sliding of particles is called gravity😅

[@skyemac8]

I really appreciate the counter arguments Becky makes to the studies findings. Good quality skepticism.

[@DouwedeJong]

wow - just - wow , you are one of the best science communicators I have even seen. Thanks for making this.

[@DrBecky]

Very high praise! Thank you, it means a lot

[@MysterySemicolon]

I know some people who do biology research and what Dr. Becky said about learning to use the new tech before a paper can come out is exactly what has to happen. My friends have a new microscope that reveals so much more detail, but the false colouring is literally so different to previous images in their current study, that their study was actually hindered by having to learn what they were actually seeing in relation to previous images in the study. They wound up having to switch back to the old microscope and get the data from that again. It blows your mind.

[@SB_AE]

Thank you for inspiring people to pursue Physics! Keep it up!

[@mizzshortie907]

Truly appreciate how you explain things in a way were a non scientific background person like myself can understand but also in a way we’re I can actually learn important terms and concepts from ❤

[@DrBecky]

You're very welcome! I'm glad you like my videos.

[@Ancorarte]

@@DrBeckyHow someone can't like your videos? Stargazing You 🧡

[@chris-terrell-liveactive]

Great clear explanation and illustrations for spectra, forwarded to my work email to pass to physics teaching colleagues. Thank you for a really good channel!

[@gastonmarian7261]

The Mercury + Venus conjunction coming up while Venus is retrograde, co-present with the Sun in Leo and square to the moon in Scorpio is going to be a great time to think about past relationships and how we've grown emotionally, become more authentically embodied in our Venusian aspects over the past many years of life. For a hint about the energies coming up for you, take a look back at your life around August 2015, the last time Venus was retrograde in Leo.

[@ShandyTheMan]

Really appreciate in this video that Dr. Becky fully explains mass spectroscopy without drawing out all the points or trying to dumb anything down - instead it's just, this is what this is and this is how it works. I get really tired of videos trying to explain it in abstract ways.

[@landar2372]

Dr. Becky, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise. I am respectfully requesting a video on Planet 9, more specifically, talk about the three options that have been in the news. From what I have read, Planet 9 could be a planet three times the mass of the Earth, a small black hole the size of a volleyball, or a clump of dark matter. I know your expertise is tailored more toward super-massive black holes, but I would love to hear from you how a tiny black hole could exist, and if Planet 9 is such a black hole, how we would ever find it. Thank you again!

[@scene2much]

6:15 'That's enough of Lookin' Up at the Night Sky".... definitely your "Star-Hustler" Channeling Moment.....

[@notsosecretsquirrel9389]

My grandma got me your book A Brief History of Black Holes for my birthday recently. I can't wait to finish it. Only 267 pages. Lol btw Sam when are you going to put a ring on it? Take care.

[@luigimetta900]

Your enthusiasm about everything relating to the cosmos is refreshing and contagious! I stumbled upon one of your shorts and found myself hitting that "subscribe" button faster than the speed of light!

[@charliestevenson3500]

Platurn, the best word created this week!

[@bernardfox9078]

Superb explanations! Clear and in normal language. Shame more science can't be delivered this way.

[@dakotaclements9343]

Woooooo! I've been hooked on your videos this entire week 🤣 been waiting for this

[@TyroneTsan]

I absolutely love your Scientific"Term"....`Smushed!` for explaining compressed waves for blue shifted light! Love it! Great work I love this channel.Dr. Becky is Awesome!

[@sylviahoffman9440]

I love your honest approach to the subjects and how you break things down into understandable pieces. Also, your enthusiasm for the subject makes it even more enjoyable. You really love space, and it shows. ❤

[@Kuro_Tsuki]

Your little song at the end made me smile, and now it's gonna be stuck in my head all day. ❤🎶

[@Anuchan]

I watch several science channels, but this is the only one that describes things to see in the night sky. Thanks!

[@jimmagwojo2718]

Awesome video Doc Becky you really help make science come alive 😊

[@jtwee6590]

it does somewhat make sense, looking at the CMB, that possibly the universe simply expanded with dense pockets that skipped 'star formation' and went straight to being black holes. i love that we're finally able to look so far back now and explore these concepts

[@Jeffrey-ed8sz]

I've been watching Dr.Becky since years ago, now Im hooked on her.😊

[@CyberMass]

Super pumped for the breakdown on the universe age paper!

[@thehellyousay]

Vastly more massive stars in the early universe, much shorter lifespans, virtually all guaranteed to collapse into black holes, much smaller universe, the collision factor between black holes must have been exponentially greater than what it would be subsequently. We've only just started being able to detect the gravity waves caused by such collisions within the last decade or so. I do wonder if the background gravity wave activity that was recently detected is not the echoes of what must have a lively universe wide smashfest of already large mass blackholes colliding. Meh, like I'll live long enough to ever find out.

[@roka0012]

Love watching all your vids! Especially Space News, keep it up! ❤

[@karishmabava1731]

@DrBecky Watching the JWST documentary on Netflix and pleasantly surprised to see you there 🎉🎉

[@shaunehuolohan5736]

Do love to listen to your descriptions. From Australia 🇭🇲

[@Lantalia]

I mean, the more massive the black hole, the lower the density, so there is almost certainly a crossover point where for a sufficiently smooth cloud, you form a black hole before there is enough density/pressure for fusion

[@ForeverANube]

It's incredibly interesting how they are able to estimate how far and how big objects are that can barely be seen with even the best equipment.

[@muditparakh08]

Reminder for video on "Final Parsec Problem".

[@jeremydouglas1763]

Fantastic installment. Really excellent explanation of IceCube and the supermassive black hole material was very interesting too. Great resource for the astronomy society I run at school - thanks for producing these fantastic videos!

[@MCsCreations]

Thanks a bunch, dr. Becky! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@waltbrown8899]

Hello, Dr. Becky...Luv Ya' Luv Your Show. I appreciate any info you can offer about JWST ... Keep up the good work!! 😊

[@S1nwar]

its amazing that you can collect directional info and number of events to create any kind of neutrinomap AT ALL

[@davehall8584]

Dr Becky..you are providing an amazing service.....and you are AWESOME!!!!!..THANK YOU!

[@LionidasL10]

You could have just run with the "mood lighting" setting with your light problems. Doctor Becky in a shady alley giving us the cosmic secrets.

[@gilliansheppard5383]

Great source of condensed info as always. Thanks

[@jeffreychandler8666]

It is always thrilling to learn from Dr. Becky, and be aware of the increasing knowledge, pertaining to the mysterious, Heavens.

[@briansmyth5291]

This got me thinking about the supposed lack intermediate mass black hole. Have you ever done a bit on that? I'd love to hear your thoughts, particularly how it relates to your work on supermassive black holes. Thanks for your amazing content.

[@XGD5layer]

She has several times. But it's been a while since it's been a topic

[@adamhurst9491]

You have become my favorite channel. Keep up the great work.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

Interesting tidbit: When a star goes supernova, most of the energy is expelled as neutrinos, approx. 10^58 (10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000) of them. According to the latest models, that is.

[@viviencornille8599]

This is one of the most extrem method of cooling in the universe also, SN are awsome in every way :D

[@isaacplaysbass8568]

I'd love to meet Cosmic Ray alongside his multiverse-doppelgangers! But seriously, thank you for another awesome N.S.N. Dr. B! :)

[@jamescarlisle3770]

WOW Your brain is exploding with information...Keep it up. Looking forward to next week when the age of the universe is discussed.

[@niloymondal7596]

Ma'am,I also want to be a cosmologist and theoretical physics from Oxford.... I guess one day I also well be a and we will meet... space, physics, maths, universe is my love....

[@GadZookz]

There was a story about a woman who got bitten on the toes by a rabid skunk while watching a meteor shower. So if you are going with a group perhaps there should be a person or two looking down as well. 🤔

[@sterlinggecko3269]

when I was a teenager, I was at an old quarry pond where we occasionally went fishing, watching the Perseids while my dad and uncle were hunting frogs. one particularly bright streak hit the sky above me, and there was big boom. scared the crap out of me. turns out, they were using a rifle, not a net, and had fired at the same time as a meteor flash. good times.

[@talan123]

I have gone to see meteor showers twice. First time I was blinded going to the spot by a meteor or something vaporizing itself (the entire sky just became 10x brighter than the day for 1/100 of a second) and the 2nd time I saw a meteor that was huge and flew over a mountain and saw a bright flash past said mountain. I refuse to go back out due to the fact that either god is aiming at me or trying to blind me.

[@hyfy-tr2jy]

Dr Becky....please please please come to the USA and do a book signing tour!

[@bobmcguirk7272]

Thank you Dr Smethurst!

[@martynspooner5822]

So fun so interesting so look forward to every post. Thanks a lot.

[@thesuncollective1475]

Data visualisation..I like it!

[@micahfoley9572]

Maisie Finklestein sounds like the name of the best friend in a 90's rom-com. i love it.

[@PlasmicPenny]

I always look forwards to Night Sky News but always sad I have to skip the observation part because I live in a very light polluted city 😢

[@einarcgulbrandsen7177]

Looking forward to the new age of the universe. Makes me feel younger.

[@j.f.fisher5318]

I saw that headline about the age of the Universe and planned to wait for you to break it down. 😊

[@jcr1138]

About those early black holes, this has come to my mind: the early universe was small and denser making those black holes to grow from nearby clouds of dust, young stars or even young planets more rapidly than they do nowadays.

[@NomenLuni1975]

It's been one year since the first JWST images were released and the Carina Nebula image is still my desktop background. 😎 Hope you get to see more images of Platurn in the coming weeks.

[@Skoolklassplan]

Me 2. I just love that image.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Yep, same here. It's just such a perfect wallpaper.

[@michaelwalters7110]

An Interstellar Implosion Point, like a crush depth in an ocean or atmosphere, but for all known matter? That's fascinating, and rather quite scary at the same time.

[@JuanLopez-vf3lc]

Thanks as usual for this!!! in love ❤

[@kalasatwater2224]

The more and more discoveries made by the telescope the more confusing big bang gets

[@ragnkja]

The more we learn, the less we can simplify things without contradicting what we’ve learnt.

[@PromethorYT]

I also loved seeing the image of your favorite Platen :)

[@JCW7100]

Dr Becky you are the most awesome science communicator ever!! Love your vids

[@kirkwagner461]

Happy Operational Birthday to JWST!

[@jamesjackman4638]

Hi Dr Becky, I am a huge fan of your Chanel and your book currently I am in the Philippines on holiday and will be in the best area to see both the planetary conjunction and the metor showers you mentioned.

[@gdr1174]

It's mind-boggling to think we live at a time where we can see all of this. Imagine how Einstein or Newton would have felt seeing images from JWST and realising their contribution to help understand it all 😢

[@wild_lee_coyote]

I still say we need a 2nd JWST. Maybe one more focused on spectra so JWST can do images and the new telescope can do more spectra data. It seems silly to me that we have all this experience with building JWST and figured out the engendering that we can’t build another for much less and get twice the data at a barren discount.

[@Solenya1111]

While it would be nice to have many such telescopes (Ideally none of them honoring the bigoted, bloody James Webb), can we pause and appreciate the multidisciplinary marvel -- the utter engineering feat -- of what was just accomplished last year! We can benefit from celebrating and learning from our achievements! Especially our most monumental achievements.

[@tbird-z1r]

James Webb was a better person than you'll ever be.

[@ghostiebby]

19:20 Pardon any lack of proper terminology, it’s 2am: I know that the Zone of Avoidance keeps us (maybe not anymore bc JWST uses infrared which can see through gases?) from seeing a portion of the universe. Idk the thickness of the MW’s gravitational plane, so is there anything that gets in the way of our view when looking “up” or “down”, relative to the plane, that could register on a light spectrum? If so, how is that accounted for? I feel as if by asking this I’m forgetting some basic fact/principle, so please remind me of it if that’s the case

[@BurnabyAlex]

20:00 should we aim Hubble and the JWST at some of the Neutrino hotspots to see if we can see anything cool?

[@samhainsknight7295]

Space is so facinating..love the videos!

[@MisterTee2010]

Love you Dr. Becky. God Bless you and your Black Holes 😁🤗😘💖🙏

[@DoktorApe]

My local astronomy club is running a star party at a dark sky site (bortle 2) for the whole weekend when the Perseids are peaking. It should be great and I'm going to try to do wide-angle a time lapse video all night.

[@jpdemer5]

Can't wait for your take on the Gupta paper. Too many YT hacks are gushing over it uncritically, mostly because they can't resist a good click-bait title.

[@ianw5024]

Dr. Becky, Maisie's galaxy has had its redshift confirmed spectroscopically at 11.44 + or - a little bit. See; 'Spectroscopic verification of very luminous galaxy candidates in the early universe' Arrabal Haro, P. et al (03/2023) Freely available on arXiv. That is, ~ 390 Ma after the BB. They also estimate a mass of ~ 10^8.4 solar masses, and it has a high SFR for its mass.

[@c.o.694]

In that Rho Uphiuci image, how dense is the darker dust clouds area? That is, particles per cubic meter? And do we have a good idea what the chemical make-up of those particles is?

[@techforthedisabled9514]

You are amazing Dr. Becky

[@kurtmayer2041]

i will be at my cousin's wedding on the 13th, and it's in a rural area so the visibility should be good i asked her and she said it wasn't planned, she seemed to not even have noticed

[@georgeruiz2053]

Thank you for sharing so insightful.

[@clydedecker765]

Love your enthusiasm. And your ability to contradict a study like the neutrino mapping of the Milky way... No known way that a neutrino interacts with matter.or no known matter that it always interacts with like a lead shield.... If it does we lose the original travel vector... if it was blocked we'd never see it... but... so many ways to make such studies a farce...and a huge waste of resources.. but fascinating. If Neutrinos just pass on by or through then what allows us to know it if it makes no impact on any measuring instrument... and what speeds does it travel at and how do we know... Is it a constant speed or are some faster than others?

[@BartdeBoisblanc]

All hail the JWST nothing escapes it's gaze. To paraphrase Alan Parson "It is the eye in the sky looking you...."

[@timjohnson979]

Dr. Becky, at about 24:52 you said that neutrinos are the most abundant particles in the universe. Are they more abundant than photons? Or did you mean of the particles which have mass? Wonderful video, as usual. I learn so much from you.

[@XGD5layer]

Neutrinos are more abundant than photons, but they also barely react with anything.

[@timjohnson979]

@@XGD5layer You sure? According to a Fermilab article, they are the most abundant particles with mass. Photos are massless, so perhaps they are more abundant. Let's see if KZbin will let me include the link. neutrinos.fnal.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/NeutrinoArePoster_Final_v2.pdf

[@artwise1415]

Dr. Becky never stutters, or says Uh, um . . .. or you know, ya know? Good gift of speaking. Man, I love how current astro physics is shaking up the status quo. Thanks Dr. Becky. Can we just call you Becky?

[@XGD5layer]

You must not watch the bloopers at the end of her videos, where she does stutter occasionally

[@Lostcause1974]

That ice cube neutrino milky way photo 😍😍😍

[@thomasdjonesn]

The Lyman Break is the coolest thing I've learned about in astronomy this year.

[@SuperLifestream]

Whats the website for plotting your observing angles/ directions? 1:18

[@michaelhoffmann2891]

Will always have a warm spot in my heart for IceCube (har!), because my claim to fame is to have done the IT security assessment for their proof-of-concept project, called AMANDA, which became said IceCube. Tempus fugit...

[@znet2723]

Cya big bang. I hate when science adjusts the existing Narrative when new evidence is found. Maybe the narrative was wrong. You have a great voice!

[@ianw5439]

What 'new evidence'?

[@Aurinkohirvi]

I'm so ready for the universe being twice (or more!) older than we thought.