This Is the Closest Black Hole to Earth, and You Can See It with a Simple Telescope

In this episode, we explore the amazing discovery of Gaia BH1, the closest known black hole to Earth. We explain what a black hole is, how it can be detected, and how astronomers found Gaia BH1 using data from a space mission. We also discuss the implications and questions that arise from this discovery for our understanding of black holes and their role in the universe. And we show you how you can see this black hole and its companion star with your own eyes, or with a simple telescope or binoculars.
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[@Shadows_Inc]

Love how the location directions are "It's around Taurus, figure it out."

[@silentrampage4063]

Still more accurate than GPS.

[@Infernocyclops]

@@silentrampage4063 lmao

[@michaelpettersson4919]

That is enough information to look for further details in databases.

[@Shadows_Inc]

@@michaelpettersson4919 Or they could just point at a star "in" Taurus and draw a line to where the location is. That's like saying the North Star is around the Big Dipper.

[@hoticeisnice1354]

Worse, it’s not even the correct constellation. That black hole is in Ophiuchus. Probably just giving out wrong information to get more comments to boost the algorithm

[@andyc3088]

the nearest black hole is my wallet lol

[@nadaaqui7407]

True

[@alfredshort3]

So the other you has all your money

[@patrickpeter1938]

😂😂😂😂

[@andy_thechicken]

wait what why?

[@AX-SHADOWGAMING]

And that black hole will steel ur money

[@Random63647]

For those who don’t know, an astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and Sun which is roughly 150 million kilometers

[@melissa3079ayala]

Really don't care. Just like the video

[@user-yl9lh4ve5u]

Thank you! I love learning more about this stuff. ❤ My kids do too

[@newuser689]

@@melissa3079ayala ok

[@Melvin_Plays]

​​@@melissa3079ayalaif you don't care, then just don't comment, this comment is for people who don't know and would like to know, if you don't care, then just leave it

[@DrakeOola]

@@melissa3079ayala Of course everyone is going to be smarter than you when you have an attitude like yours to learning new things. You'll grow up one day though. 👌

[@bobbyantonelli7978]

I’m no astrophysicist, but I watched documentaries about black holes and the whole existence of them is fascinating beyond belief.

[@The_Darkest1]

Do you have any favourites that stand out? I would love to watch them too! 🌌

[@martello44]

My understanding is that a black hole is just a star who in its lifetime became so dense causing its gravitational pull to be so strong as to prevent light from escaping it and so you can’t see it and they call it black. It appears to be a hole but actually at the bottom there is an extremely dense mass that is distorting the space around it. some people speculate that it is truly a hole as an entry into another universe but that’s pure speculation and we’ll probably never know

[@emunoz1678]

Same here bud, give us some recommendations

[@zenothys9119]

Watch Kurzgesagt’s three videos on them. In particular, “Black Holes 2” goes into the most absurd implications of their existence, i.e. the information paradox and the holographic principle. And if you haven’t, look up what it took for the EHT to actually get a _photograph_ of one of these monstrosities - 100 years, at last, after Einstein first proposed their hypothetical existence using mathematics alone.

[@bobbyantonelli7978]

As I commented before, I recommend a couple from NOVA, a PBS channel that is on KZbin and one of them actually shows that they do exist by a sound that took millions of years to reach the Earth and scientists made a device that recorded it. Comment if you know the one I’m talking about.

[@jaroldscottwilliams.3rd832]

Most stars: "You circle around me. I'm the boss." That poor star: "Heeeeeeelp meeeeeeee."

[@acart5388]

Most stars orbit a black hole. The sun is orbiting around a massive black hole at the center of the milky way

[@achaille9110]

@@acart5388 - Well..... That is not exactly the same.

[@jaroldscottwilliams.3rd832]

@@acart5388 That's like saying police officers in the usa work for the president. I mean... ya.. technically? In a round about way, I guess? But how many police officers are going to meet the president and get sucked... into their field of influence?

[@wanderlustislamabad8082]

@@achaille9110well it’s relative… as an earthling I like to think the sun is subjected to something mightier 😊

[@achaille9110]

@@wanderlustislamabad8082 - Well, we all are subject to something mightier. But, Sagittarius A is 25,000 lightyears away. The entire Milky Way Galaxy orbits it. Has been for more than 13 billion years. Unless your star system is up close (and personal) with it, there's not any peril from it or, influence, much at all.

[@decaDBZ]

*"You can actually find this black hole with a telescope ehhh somewhere around Taurus- gtg k bye."*

[@ttv.pearscovich]

😭😭😭

[@MejriThameur]

hhhhhhh

[@malser2004]

😭😭🤣🤣

[@user-jj3ee5fn4d]

"simple telescope" 😂😂😂

[@Lightningthieves]

Cringe

[@Lunarcreeper]

this just made me realize that galaxies are just tons of solar systems orbiting a black hole.

[@dogofwar2142]

Tons is an understatement

[@lauramaria8880]

yh so this is not the closest one, ours is

[@anarchistangel2314]

​@@lauramaria8880pretty sure we're closer to the one in the video than the one theorized to be in the center of the galaxy

[@lauramaria8880]

@@anarchistangel2314 ur right acc, I didn’t know there were random black wholes within the galaxy as well..

[@seaocean4868]

​@@lauramaria8880 interesting stuff 🤔

[@sabrinashitpost]

Instructions unclear, my Taurus friend did not like me staring at them

[@cnjoora]

😂😂

[@luciankuna6673]

😂😂😂❤

[@nininahazwedomine6614]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@arcade_frog]

Is this comment what made you choose that name?

[@sabrinashitpost]

@@arcade_frog nah I’ve had this since usernames were introduced on yt

[@afrosheent3arcmichael69]

"You can see it with a telescope." Proceeds to show black hole from the movie Interstellar.

[@idoitmyself21]

Rofl, heliocentric system is demoniac

[@user-wd6bu9ky3o]

😂

[@chilomine839]

Which is cgi. So in effect not showing you anything at all.

[@timspiker]

Pretty cool ey, now you don't need to get a telescope. The real thing probably doesn't look as impressive anyway... Might as well draw a black circle on a picture of a galaxy in Photoshop and you get more or less the same thing. Warp the edges a bit, tada

[@khalidalkalali1980]

😂😂😂😂

[@dtriplett03]

Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 Constellation Ophiuchus [1]Right Ascension 17h 28m 41.09661s [2]Declination−00° 34′ 51.5234″

[@MistaImpala]

Pin this crap !!! Thank you for commenting this 🙇‍♂️

[@EJuggly]

Yeah cause i understood that

[@beachchaos1863]

​@@EJugglyI'm sorry but if you don't know what declination and RA are then you shouldn't even be interested in locating the damn thing lmfao

[@MsBigfloppydonkeydis]

@@beachchaos1863 You have no right to tell someone what they should or shouldn't be interested in.

[@beachchaos1863]

@@MsBigfloppydonkeydis goofy ass

[@user-ts5qg4mn2e]

We'll be looking out for that black hole. It's amazing how this black hole didn't take any source from the blue star orbiting it. Well done on finding it. Keep up the good work.

[@lostforwar5619]

"scientists just discovered" he did not find it 💀

[@user-ts5qg4mn2e]

@@lostforwar5619 Yeah, you're probably right. We mean, the black hole can easily camouflage itself in space. They do know where it is, they just can't see it. We have a trick, though. If you are looking for a black hole through a telescope (a normal one), the light from the stars and planets would, in fact, distort. If you see something like this, you might have seen a black hole. We do wonder if scientists have ever tried this theory. It would make things a whole lot easier for them. But, yes. A black hole is not easily spotted in space. So, thank you. We'll keep it in mind.

[@Waltitude]

@@user-ts5qg4mn2e they do but it really only helps with a good parallax background in order to have highly moving light sources, and those tend to lie closer to our plane of rotation or orbit

[@user-oi1ve7fm3h]

Black holes are so cool, to stop time or speed it up is crazy.

[@A-10WT]

If you stay under a black hole Let's say with a spaceship with advanced technology or something. Then time would feel normal, but if you would go back to earth time has changed and your children could be dead a long time ago because they aged years when you were sitting under that black hole for a few hours. But for time itself I think a black hole absorbs it and fricking no one knows what's on the other side or if there even is an end. Some astronomers speculate that for every black hole, there could be a white hole where everything comes back out but it's just a speculation and nothing has been proved. Yet. My English is not the best sorry about that. But I hope I made black holes even more interesting now if you didn't know those things.

[@ShamsParvez-gc3gj]

1516

[@sweetea6550]

they are so scary, man

[@achhiles4975]

Is that a jojo reference?

[@meatpopsicle1567]

Okay, I've found Taurus. Now, what?

[@neerajkale]

Leaving a comment here, incase someone finds an answer, I will be notified.😅

[@achaille9110]

​@@neerajkale- Me too 😊

[@zamolxezamolxe8131]

Now pack it at it horns.

[@vikramsinghchauhan9083]

How the hell can someone look for it if it doesn't have an accretion disc. This guy didn't even explain it.

[@achaille9110]

@@vikramsinghchauhan9083 - Well, first.....You're gonna need an expensive telescope..... Then, locate the star that's circling nothing in the middle. But, even if you find it, it's not much to look at..... Because there's no accretion disc.

[@hg6996]

The not mentioned interesting thing is that it was discovered by the Gaia satellite which is an amazing piece of technology. Everybody speaks about the JWST but Gaia is also incredible powerful!

[@MIKTECHSTUDIO]

I was also noticing this 👍

[@Peter..Griffin]

It insists upon itself.

[@foundingtitan7]

I didn't know about this !! Thank you

[@patriciathomas8752]

Is this the same Gaia Project Tscope that mapped the star field as observed from Earth, perhaps more importantly establishing pulsar locations and timing in pursuit of gravitational wave measurements.

[@foundingtitan7]

@@patriciathomas8752 I believe it is

[@Walker404]

Data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia mission revealed the closest known - and second closest - black holes in 2022, Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2, which are 1,560 light-years and 3,800 light-years from Earth respectively.

[@SpaceAnaster]

NASA after discovering there’s a 0.000000002% chance of the black hole hitting our planet in 200 billion years:

[@Icouldnotthinkofanything]

“Just look for the constellation Taurus” Me after 50 years of scanning around Taurus with my normal telescope looking for a black hole 💀

[@anthonyvargas7564]

It's about the friends we made along the way..? 🫠

[@RichardHansbury]

Well, it is black...

[@WildmanTrading]

You attempt to perceive a hole in a void.

[@jayall00]

watch, I bet it occurs on that one day where the whole sky is filled with clouds and it's -1 degrees out

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

It's actually in the Ophiucus constellation, not Taurus.

[@AnthonyRomero-dx8de]

Black hole: stop moving and let me eat you. Star: I thought we were playing tag.

[@kaosuri]

i cackled at this gg

[@Panzerfaust_1939]

Ye

[@TimeFadesMemoryLasts]

Eventually it will get eaten

[@the_incredibleskrub]

@@TimeFadesMemoryLastsif it already hasn’t

[@magiesantos4415]

Black hole: are you my planet? Sun: mabye

[@HyperX755]

“It’s first the blackhole to not have mass transfer or an accretion disk” Well, THEN HOW ARE WE GOING TO SEE IT WITH IT A SIMPLE TELESCOPE???

[@brianbergmusic5288]

Good question. Why can't they even show us a photograph/image capture? If someone actually saw this object "Lens" the neighbor star then this would be published on the front cover of all major publications, no? CGI hype is pathetic clickbait.

[@pigeonfun1771]

I was wondering the same thing

[@nemo-x]

This guy when asked for directions to the nearest gas station: "Okay, take the second street to the right. .... bye"

[@ParisM88]

And there are only 4 streets to the left and then a dead end

[@Sonsaiyon]

If you have a normal telescope and look in the Taurus direction, you'll find it 😂

[@Limelaz23]

​@@Sonsaiyon it's not even in taurus 😅

[@Sonsaiyon]

@@Limelaz23 omfg... this guy knew sh*t 😂

[@e.l.2734]

I mean, you may get a really good explanation of the cosmic importance of the gas station, if that's what you were headed there for lol

[@hakoom7]

He made it sound so easy that i can just look outside and see a black hole

[@iRossco]

Well it is black...🤷

[@JFK-ir7yz]

While showing nothing but CGI.

[@vandalg282]

Star maps app. C'mon dumb dumbs.

[@Elbruhman6456]

​@@JFK-ir7yzWhat are they gonna do, film a real black hole?

[@JFK-ir7yz]

No of course not. Film a “real” black hole haha. Thats not possible. Exactly

[@Lavender_squad1834]

Ever since i saw this video, i have been researching about the universe for days

[@kavita8714]

Camera man never dies🔥🔥🔥😤🗿🗿🗿

[@johnscustomsaws]

Instructions unclear... Been staring at my ceiling for hours...

[@thebigcheese8604]

Tripping balls

[@Eternal1nstant]

High how are you now right?

[@King_of_Railways]

Stare in your pocket and wallet 😅😅

[@amirmohamadi3736]

​@@Eternal1nstant how high are you?

[@lenninyberg4064]

I stopped talking acid in 1972. 😂

[@L1Run]

"Just look for Taurus!" "Ok, found Taurus." "Tada! It's there somewhere! How's that?" "Anticlimactic."

[@Kr1xxyGtag]

Some people would be scared about this black hole stuff but since that’s the nearest black hole from earth it’s actually very very very very very very far away for only 1560 light years (1 light year converted to earth year is actually 6 trillion miles/ 9 trillion km) it’s actually really fascinating to research about too

[@darylynrose6814]

You guys are awesome ,thanks for the video and the education 🎉❤🎉

[@regonik]

Chances are, you see millions of black holes just looking at any part of the sky. You can be very proud of your eyesight

[@bigsmall246]

Well by the same logic, everyone sees atoms, quarks and even electrons all the time - even when the eyes are closed, cus eyelids are made of matter too

[@Just_a_Piano_]

@@bigsmall246 Well that is correct so I don't get your point here

[@spooky9030]

😂Alright who has the Acid I’ll have what y’all having…

[@Gave-rf1hr]

You are right you just need to squint a little to look further

[@infrannswetrust]

Probably

[@ByGod72051]

Hearing about space is always so fascinating yet terrifying at the Same time

[@christopherfrazier85]

Just like the ocean

[@Josiah.M.Edwards9526]

​@@christopherfrazier85Except, it's infinitely bigger.

[@OhAncientOne]

Why be terrified? It's just amazing 🥳 🧙‍♂️ Earth is a great place to be!

[@ByGod72051]

@@christopherfrazier85 aye mate the ocean it truly a scary place worst is there's still shut down there we don't even know about

[@ByGod72051]

@OhAncientOne I get what you mean but imagine being an astronaut and your tether broke and that's you left floating towards some mad planet like Jupiter or something or getting turned into human spaghetti by a backhole lol if it was totally safe id be fine with it but I gotta agree with the first persons comment especially after that experimental submarine imploded

[@Burnt2Ashes82]

Cool, love how Taurus looks like it's in selfie mode and zoomed in. Super helpful...

[@100nation5]

I loved the way he described the nearest black hole as interesting and amazing. And not scary and dangerous 😅😅

[@Schizniit]

You would not be able to observe it with a regular telescope. If we could, we would've found it sooner. The truth is, even if black holes were visible in any way (they're not, that's why they're called black holes) and at stellar mass, this thing would actually be tiny. While it is more massive than any object we could immediately compare it to, it would actually not even be as large as the earth. You definitely can't see a planet sized object from that far.

[@FGLYMNSTR]

could it be because it is only observable by watching the star that orbits it pass behind it.

[@TheInvisibleOrange26]

You can only see black holes affects on things around it not the hole itself

[@charlesfreeman9917]

I think you missed the mark on all of that, schniitz. You can certainly "see" the effects of the black hole on the star that orbits it and you can see the swirling mass of material the hole is heating up, through friction, as it ingests what it pulls off of its companion. TMYK, pal...

[@leeroyjenkins3474]

@@TheInvisibleOrange26wait until you find out what an event horizon is

[@LaFranceBonjour]

also the orbits probably decades long so the average stronomer wouldnt be able to notice any movement in the star

[@TheJMBon]

The scary part is that there are probably black holes a lot closer than this that we just don't know about

[@AkiraS.A.Z]

Scientists believe there's a dark object they cannot perceive near the sun. Some say maybe a big, dark planet, but what if it's a black hole instead o.o Not that I know enough to know if that's even possible, just a thought xO

[@eonwe3559]

​@@AkiraS.A.Zmaybe some kind of camouflage planet?

[@AkiraS.A.Z]

@@eonwe3559 Possibly. They have found a planet (Kepler-1b) that reflects only 1% of the light that hits it. That's pretty dark. And there are naturally occurring elements that do get darker, not to mention the possibility of undiscovered elements and materials

[@stevenhetzel6483]

​@@AkiraS.A.Z*Citation needed..............

[@stevenhetzel6483]

It wouldn't be even remotely scary. Mass is mass and gravity is gravity. A black hole doesn't suddenly swallow stuff up, and one close enough to matter would be wildly detectable. Literally asteroids are scarier, we could be wiped out at ANY MOMENT from a rock coming at us from any number of directions, but mainly one originating from an angle where the sun's glare blocks any ability to see it. We've had them fly-by us dangerously close and not seen them until they passed us because only then were they visible to our instruments. Theres literally nothing to fear from black holes, if one is detected in our backyard coming straight for us it will still be centuries before it matters, and you'll be gone. The only way it could kindof sneak up is from a preposterously elliptical orbit that just grazes the supermassive at the center of our galaxy, picks up damn-near intergalactic slingshot speed and comes at us from a patch of sky where there are literally 0 stars. Its not happening.

[@bocephus6415]

Shout out to the cameraman for going 1560 light years away to get this footage.

[@cajunpeartree6530]

I'm 10 years old and I understand these edits better than science class

[@Ragman312]

"With a star very similar to our own" Proceeds to show a blue star 😅

[@johncane2304]

Blue fire

[@jeremyjery01]

Our star is actually white

[@adarvirohfanbelarus8889]

yeah, this video is incredibly stupid = popular

[@12carbon]

​​@@jeremyjery01That does not change anything.

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

@@jeremyjery01it emits green strongest.

[@Darth.Caedus]

It's not located in Taurus constellation but Opiuchus constellation. And you can't see it from your telescope easily. It's called black hole for a reason as not even light escapes from it. Given its size, it's accretion disk would be smaller than a supermassive black hole.

[@quinnbeasley94]

BUT, since the star orbits around the black hole, perhaps you can time it so that you can see the dimming of said star signifying the presence of a black hole

[@Darth.Caedus]

@@quinnbeasley94 True!

[@khanellena5550]

And he said star orbit blackhole 1.4 astronomycal UNit of I mean it's not possible

[@jamesbarbour8400]

Didn't the narrator say that there was no accretion disc ?

[@quinnbeasley94]

@@jamesbarbour8400 yes, but he just mentions it once in the beginning I think, easy to miss.

[@NawAaZ901]

Astrology❌️ Yt shorts about space sci✅️

[@medic-gg7jo]

I remember when I was in high-school science and black holes, were still only thought to exist. Our textbooks had maybe 1 or 2 sentences on the subject, saying black holes, may or my not exist.

[@BlaQ20]

"So how do I get to the room 974A?" "Well, just look at the floor 9."

[@castleanthrax1833]

In case you're wondering: an astronomical unit is the average distance from the centre of the earth to the centre of the sun. Roughly 150 million kilometres.

[@gelatinousjoe7979]

Thanks, I did not knownthis

[@12carbon]

I wonder why would someone even watch videos like this one of they don't know what an AU is.

[@castleanthrax1833]

@@12carbon Maybe to learn something new? I'm assuming you don't know everything, so why do you watch KZbin videos or read a book?

[@12carbon]

@@castleanthrax1833 It is expected from a person that is interested in space to know about one of the most basic terms used in astronomy.

[@castleanthrax1833]

@@12carbon If someone is interested in space, they have to learn about these matters at some point in time, do they not? I mean, at the moment they show an interest, that piece of knowledge does not spontaneously become known to them. Be honest, you're simply trying to have a flex by stating "I'm smart because I already know what an AU is."

[@weepingdemon8954]

Most stars: "UNLIMITED POWAHHHHH" This star: "Help me Anakin ;("

[@phase6960]

Looks up, Hi sun, Gets blind

[@BiggestBird0409]

"You can find this black hole yourself with a SIMPLE telescope, it is 1560 light years away." 💀

[@richardyang2482]

Our galaxy probably contains 100 to 400 billion stars, and is about 100,000 light-years across. So if 1560 light years is the distance, that black hole is inside our Milky Way galaxy 😂

[@macky4074]

Yea, just look for Taurus

[@michaelerdmier1311]

The distance is how long the light takes to reach us. Most of the stars we see with our naked eyes are 1,000 light years away, so yeah, a simple telescope would see it.

[@vexari4683]

A simple telescope could not see this, it is utterly tiny, youd have to spend damn near millions.

[@nknown3982]

You can't even see the black hole tbf, video is misleading

[@MIN0RITY-REP0RT]

Need to be more specific. You cannot see the black hole. You can see only the star of the binary system. Gaia BH 1 is the name of the binary system, not the black hole.

[@mattjack3983]

Yeah I think there some missing information here. We can only see the effects that blackholes have on the things around it. Not the actual blackhole, hence the term "blackhole". But they are saying that it can be observed with a simple telescope? But there's no accretion disc or mass transfer..so no super heated material around it..and the star itself would only be a tiny pinpoint light. This isn't making sense how we can "see it for ourselves".

[@shamlotbestrhapsever7437]

It is seeing the star that orbits the blackhole that's *inferred* when the narrator says that you can spot the blackhole with a simple telescope..... because you're effectively looking right at the blackhole since its a binary system (close enough together that the tiny point of light is virtually the same location as the blackhole given both the distance between the two objects, and the distance between us and the system).

[@MIN0RITY-REP0RT]

@@shamlotbestrhapsever7437 The narrator doesn't say you can 'spot' the black hole he says you can see the black hole. Also as I've said before is not the name of the black hole it's the name of the binary system. If we want to talk science, we can't talk slop like that. He's demonstrating he doesn't have a clear concept of what is going on, and he's projecting that inaccuracy upon anyone who may buy into what he's saying.

[@shamlotbestrhapsever7437]

@@MIN0RITY-REP0RT IT WAS *INFERRED* - anyone with the slightest knowledge of blackholes knows you can't see one directly. He even acknowledges a lack of accretion disc or mass transfer effectively making the blackhole *unseeable.* Perhaps his choice of words weren't ideal (and definitely click-baity) but I'd argue this narrator's "slop" is less egregious than someone's inability to comprehend basic inference. In other words, if you read the narrator's comments 100% literally (i.e. "see the blackhole"), you probably shouldn't be watching Blackhole clips to in the first place -- and better to start with actual Channels that provide a more substantive introduction versus a video that's 1minute long.

[@MIN0RITY-REP0RT]

@@shamlotbestrhapsever7437 Your's is the lamest vanity reply I've ever read. He, and you, are products of the dumbed-down educational system in America - and the best you can do is double-down on defending that which cannot be rationally defended. I don't need to stop watching KZbin shorts, I need to stop communicating with Internet deadweight such as yourself. You are blocked. :-)

[@THE_RANDOM_YOUTUBER_111]

The sun: All planets revolve around me! I'm the big boss The black hole:

[@user-ov2zx7mn6z]

“it’s amazing for 7 reasons” gives 4 facts “thanks for watching”

[@kristinakoprek629]

the good thing is... *its 1560 light years away*

[@Fatsaver]

On a cosmic scale that is actually very VERY close...

[@achiapet4254]

is that all ???????

[@abbagailmarie9874]

Most of the universe is rapidly expanding away from us. Except for everything in the milky way and Andromeda galaxy. Everything in those two galaxies gets closer to collision. That black hole is in our galaxy

[@zenthous9568]

@@abbagailmarie9874yeah and?

[@paulsherrouse1063]

Wow...the damn thing started grabbing my pants leg when I was walking by it earlier...damn them stray BLACKHOLES....no it's not a porno jjezzzzzzz

[@fallendevonish1869]

Gaia BH1 is located just 1,560 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus, while Gaia BH2 lies 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus.

[@WayneMcDougall]

Thank you. I thought it said it was 15-16 light years away.

[@jm4270]

@@WayneMcDougall😂

[@Ssonelol]

@@WayneMcDougall we would be in deep shit if that were the case I think

[@WayneMcDougall]

@@Ssonelol it would really depend on the size of he black hole and how much matter it was gobbling (hence radiation).

[@Imobsessedwithuranus]

The star when the black hole sucks it up: The star:you betrayed me!!!

[@QueenoftheWea]

That is EXTREMELY EXCITING!! I LOVE BLACK HOLES!

[@SecularShadow]

Other black holes : yo guys . Prepare your last words . Gaiya BH1 : Yo Guys . Let’s hang out .

[@Shaquille0atmeal2028]

It has a magnitude (brightness level) of 13.5 so it’s almost impossible to see with a telescope and it’s a black hole so that makes it even tougher to find since no light can be emitted. Note that the nearest galaxy Andromeda, has a magnitude of 3.44 and is hard to find in suburbs too

[@thegamingsteak976]

Thanks for saving everyone who was gonna try finding it

[@simonharris4873]

I've seen Andromeda with the naked eye, but I was in Kruger National Park, zero light pollution.

[@Shaquille0atmeal2028]

@@simonharris4873 Cool! I’ve always wanted to see it but it’s tough as I live in a polluted area

[@simonharris4873]

@@Shaquille0atmeal2028 If you stay in Kruger Park, they have the best night safaris. One of them was an astronomy night. You can see so many stars in Kruger, it's just not funny. If you get the chance, go. You'll love it.

[@ekalbkr]

Magnitude 13.5 can be resolved - just barely - by most medium size amateur telescopes on a night with very good seeing. That said, you won't have much to look at if you do.

[@a_guy_in_blue.]

That star is messing with death 💀💀💀💀💀

[@shepard7740]

Me looking into my telescope, trying to locate a BLACK hole that emits ZERO light: 'Hello darkness, my old friend...'......

[@MrAceHasDied]

Man that star is built different.

[@spectrumsparks-nu5es]

Space is one of the most interesting thing, I have ever heard of

[@rogermazuca4582]

Yeah well it is the final frontier ✨

[@douglaslang2218]

Your comment is the funniest thing I have ever seen!

[@Just_normalpersonhere]

I knew i wasn't crazy for seeing a black hole years ago on my telescope

[@hassanmunie6780]

Those who thought he was speaking gibberish💀

[@ramshan6404]

Very excited and interested to know the time dilation in this star because of its close proximity to the black hole😊

[@dnasty9673]

Was going to say the same thing.

[@Sheudisosksbshe]

If it's only a stellar mass black hole, within range of a few times the mass of our star, it's most likely a ballet, a binary system in which they orbit each other and the dilation would be similar to that of the star alone that orbits the black hole. Only when the gravitational forces reach critical levels approaching the horizon would you see any kind of measurable differences in space time.

[@jesus4400]

It's CGI. A HOAX.

[@wischmopps293]

It's the same dialation as we have. It has the distance 1,4 times to the black hole that had the mass of since stars. So no dialation at all

[@jes5392]

Time is an abstract concept not a physical phenomenon. To go faster or slower in response to real phenomena like gravity it would have to exist in reality but it doesn't. Space is the same.

[@_end3rguy_]

“You can see it for yourself” *shows stock footage of black hole taking up 30% of the sky*

[@dianeparker3485]

This is so amazing, my late husband would of love seeing this,love this. Please show more of the universe Thank ya'll so much,I really appreciate this❤

[@rickb06]

When our instruments get better, we will likely find out that black holes are in fact much closer to us than we think.

[@mrsheabutter]

Or zoom onto the moon surface and see the dune buggy and American flag left behind, or NOT!

[@BIackhole]

These things are beyond our imagination, so beautiful...

[@ItsRobloxianSolika]

PLS DONT EAT EARTH BRO

[@sweetea6550]

the universe is a scary place

[@OhNiceMatt]

I turned a black light, and am looking at my bedroom ceiling fan

[@idontknowgrammer1126]

Remember it says (known) black hole, meaning there could be another black hole which is closer to us than we think

[@kafridon]

If we could observe it with a telescope then we would've had thousand pictures of it by now.

[@Soeeasy]

Yes thats bullshit

[@UncommonSense-wm5fd]

At least try to pay attention in class.

[@ChuckTBA]

And the more interesting fact is that there may be black holes lurking much closer to Earth which were just not yet discovered

[@johnnycripplestar5167]

Yeah, but black holes aren't anything super special. They're just like every other celestial object. A lot of mass with gravity. Possibilities of one coming towards us is the same as a star doing that. The closest star system is Alpha Centauri, but no one is afraid.

[@ChuckTBA]

@@johnnycripplestar5167 definetely, the a higher chance to get eaten by a shark than this happening in our lifetime lul

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

Can't be that close otherwise we'd not have life from all the radiation.

[@MrMegaMetroid]

​@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeepblack holes dont radiate by default, there might be a radiation spike when it has an active feeding phase, but if they are dormant there is nothing except maybe hawking radiation. IF hawking radiation turns out to be real. Any stellar mass black hole would not even produce enough radiation during an active phase to matter to us. You are thinking about quasars, super massive black holes in galactic centers. those can sterilise their entire host galaxy if they are strong enough, but those are not anywhere near us. we are talking about regular stellar mass Black holes, which are not dangerous at all

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

@@MrMegaMetroid Ah ok good to know thank you for your detailed reply explaining the difference I really appreciate it.

[@user-xp2zm8mp6o]

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[@anakinskywalker6666]

That's wild. i wish they could figure out a way to see what's on the other side of a black hole, but i don't see that happening anytime in the foreseeable future

[@johnp1842]

“The best part is you can see it for yourself” -No one…ever…

[@creepingtod]

You forgot said....

[@iRossco]

Look outside on a dark night...it's small & very black.

[@johnp1842]

@@creepingtod I said what I said, and I’ll say it again.

[@mokodo_]

People including myself can't truly comprehend how insane the nature of space/the universe is. And we're all a part of it.

[@bon6461]

This is so beautiful.

[@Thisisaweirdthing2makeusdo]

Its dormant hence no accretion disc. But so fascinating ❤

[@Kulsum-12]

"We're not orbiting a black hole, nothing orbits a black hole" Well, Doctor Who writers, don't you feel silly now?

[@zaingamingtv2242]

Oh yeah technically everything in the milky way galaxy is orbiting a supermassive black hole ad the very center of the galaxy. Without it there wouldn't even be a milky way xd

[@kevincarter2020]

they have been silly for some time now

[@uzairbinaju4235]

"The closest black hole to earth" 1560 light years away💀

[@kaosuri]

now that i think about it, if it's actually that close? wouldn't we be dead by the gravitational pull? or am i just trippin

[@feint9059]

@@kaosuriur tripping light years is the distance it take light a year to travel so we are seeing this black hole 1560 years in the past

[@kaosuri]

@@feint9059 ah, i never understood how light years work

[@youngjrr]

@@feint9059so what youre saying is the black hole isn’t actually there ?

[@LewisRJHope]

Of course it's there, it takes far longer than a few millenia for celestial objects to die @@youngjrr

[@rmalus10297]

Jokes on you...i can't even find the moon in my telescope😂😂

[@creativemind1311]

Fascinating to learn!!

[@Mr_Venison]

There is absolutely no way you can look at it with a simple telescope.

[@KingSlayer_.]

Not sure but I think some of these shorts are made by AI

[@cagliari5984]

@@KingSlayer_.Yeah for sure, I really doubt this video is even real.

[@e.l.2734]

@@KingSlayer_. more like AS

[@subtoturbopropaviation]

How to survive the black hole: 1. Hide 2. Slap the black hole 3. Black hole will rage quit 4. you survived!

[@BatmanEaterJoke]

You absolute buffoon!

[@BatmanEaterJoke]

Slaughter it with a knife lad, and it will go away!

[@Viktor47917]

Weird

[@grant3933]

Are you 10 years old?

[@CommanderShepard-wq3wo]

Wait. How are you supposed to slap the Black Hole if you’re hiding? 🤔

[@eunshuu]

Maestro: 🤘😎👹💀 Concept video:💟💗💕🌈

[@sketchtimetv-dsmllc6021]

WOW! AWESOME! A potential backstory for a SCI-Fi movie!

[@RMA84]

Space goes hard af 🔥 😮

[@flooodo]

How high were you when you wrote this 😂

[@RMA84]

@@flooodo VERY 🥴😂

[@juancruz-yx3dg]

​@@RMA84bruh 🗿

[@RMA84]

@@juancruz-yx3dg 😮‍💨😤🪐👽

[@Zentalop]

@@Wizardofedits75This shit was not funny‼️‼️💯 Never make a joke again‼️

[@krumplethemal8831]

There are on estimate, about a hundred million of these sprinkled throughout the Milky Way. They are stellar black holes and IMO are what cause the effect we deemed dark matter. They cause gravitational lag.

[@guyblew1733]

That is awesome. Love your solar images.

[@Festivex1]

Now let’s use it as an energy source

[@Custos_siderum]

It would be really hard to observe since it would have a very low magnitude (which black holes have) and I don’t think a basic telescope will have the ability to see it.

[@wer1123]

The reason its likely not tearing the star could be the mass of the blackhole due to the roche limit. It is also has alot more mass than the star even if it is the same size as the star due to density

[@TK-un1pu]

It’s crazy how black holes resemble an eye. 👁️

[@kalkonstantine]

“Oh it’s just Down the road In the Taurus neighborhood”

[@targetedindividual8940]

The black holes, Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2, are respectively located just 1560 light-years away from us in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus and 3800 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. In galactic terms, these black holes reside in our cosmic backyard. Not Taurus. 😂🎉

[@melhaharris8]

thank you you should be making the clips 💯🤔

[@christianjonahzapanta6954]

you should be the one making these kind of vidz not a non-passionate in science person

[@CreativeComparisons1750]

Gaia BH1 is in Ophiuchus

[@xizilionyizzexeliqer3897]

They don't travel fast thankfully though large devastation. Snails on the garden's edges you could say.

[@Iloveyoubabys]

none of what they said is true truth is they use these "holes" to stargate and travel from one part of earth back down to another part quickly. The movie stargate was not about traveling in time but traveling to a far away land on earth through a star gate portal black hole using the stars

[@kenrickbaughman992]

It is still terrifying no matter what!

[@lameplayr]

i like how 1: the instructions to find the black hole is just "around taurus" 2: he literally said it doesnt have an accretion disk, how are we supposed to see the black hole unless we're observing the orbit of the star

[@nffcdan233]

Context: An astronomical unit is the average distance between the Sun and Earth, or 149,597,870,700m.

[@PintuMahakul]

👍 Wonderful information about black hole you have given. Thank you very much for sharing.

[@MyRx777z]

What this means is that they found a lazy blackhole. It didn't need to work by absorbing other nearby stars or debris. It just sat there and let other star orbits around it due to high gravitational pull.

[@SkyPeach102]

For people who are confused a astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and Sun witch is roughly 150 million kilometers away Thank you for reading this Space speech!❤️

[@Death_Moony]

"I'm not interested in learning science from my teachers" "But I'm interested in learning from these". -Yana

[@JstJacko]

You can see it by looking for "the constellation of Taurus" except it's actually in Ophiuchus. ^Thanks for the help^