So Much James Webb News // NASA's UAPs Report // Closest Black Hole to Earth

Have astronomers found the first signs of life on an exoplanet? So much James Webb news. The closest black hole to Earth. NASA gives its report on UAPs.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Hycean World Found by JWST
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04:40 JWST Images A Young Star
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06:21 What Will Come After JWST
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08:43 Closest Black Hole to Earth
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10:29 Vote
11:37 DART’s Impact Had Stronger Effects Than Originally Measured
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13:56 Dark Matter Blobs 30,000 Light-Years Across
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16:20 NASA's UAP Report
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18:47 Weekly Email Newsletter
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19:26 Small Universe
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20:58 Rant of the Day
Host: Fraser Cain
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[@user-nd7yp1ms9n]

I love the subtle flying saucer during the UAP chapter. 😊

[@frasercain]

Don't report it. 😀

[@Locut0s]

Omg that Herbig Haro photo! I’ve seen these objects before in HST photos. Such a beautiful shot. Love how the central star is still obscured in the coma of black dust, amazing to see.

[@Nekog1rl]

Thank you for this update! It interfaces nicely with John Michael Godier's episode on the NASA UAP report and Anton Petrov's coverage of K2-18b. Really appreciate the perspective and all that you do! Keep up the excellent work!

[@StuftBanana]

🎯 🎯🎯 😎 🥂🖖🏼

[@wolfmann5160]

Thank you for all the work you do on these videos. I rarely get to watch but every time, I'm impressed with your insights and your simple way of explaining complex concepts.

[@plexibreath]

Have you seen the episode of Red Dwarf where Holly says, "Well, the thing about a black hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the color of space, your basic space color - is it's black. So how are you supposed to see them?"

[@JamesCairney]

I would imagine that most people here have.

[@donaldmackerer9032]

By how they affect other objects around them.

[@andalula922]

Great episode. Also, loved the UFO in the background, nice touch.

[@AEFisch]

Being able to watch the beginning process of star formation "close up" is absolutely amazing.

[@CrasyFingers]

maybe the dart asteroid slowed down more overtime because the crash caused a cloud of dust that's orbiting the main asteroid and the small asteroid is hitting those dust particles? is that a theory too?

[@oberonpanopticon]

That seems plausible, tho with how powerful that explosion was idk if any debris was going slow enough to end up in orbit. But idk much/anything about the physics behind it!

[@pigbenis8366]

Ha. The little alien space ship flying around in the back ground.

[@rayfighter]

the flying saucer behind you was a lovely touch!

[@bbbenj]

You noticed it too!

[@Reyajh]

The Hycean world is soo exciting!!! Thank you for giving an objective analysis.

[@hadarsnorlax]

I just discovered your channel and it's amazing! I learned a lot of stuff. I'm deep in the satellite industry but the topics here are so diverse and fascinating

[@woody5109]

The JWST image is breathtaking, really interesting and challenging.

[@ilya_95]

Have never thought about possibility of a rogue planet having liquid ocean on its surface 🤯. Very interesting idea. Endless night and a vast ocean.

[@psylocyn]

I’ve been listening to Fraser for nearly 20 years and just recently found him on KZbin. I’m hard pressed to think of other people who look so different from the way you’d imagine. I always pictured a little nerdy guy. He actually (before he speaks) looks like a tough biker type lol

[@frasercain]

Hah, I get that a lot.

[@millie_willcox__]

Thanks for this, your videos & the newsletter getting me through feeds with my newborn! Excellent as always.

[@kenday7942]

Very good channel! I have subscribed. An excellent cosmological magazine that gets the information out succinctly and without the didactic dialogue of a lot of other channels.

[@isaacplaysbass8568]

Thank you Fraser.Fascinating and informative. I feel sad that there are people that feel that they need to make threats ; they must be having educational/emotional and/or psychological difficulties. It's exciting to see the ongoing observations of JWST.

[@handler007]

DEFUND NASA, it is a incompetent and a waste of tax money!

[@Jethlin2020]

Did you really take that seriously? I feel sad for people who can't understand the difference between a joke and an actual threat.

[@francesmorton7183]

Fraser, love your content and learning new things about whatever this is we live in. 😊

[@jaymst66]

I found you recently and am geeking out. LOL Love your channel. Thank You.

[@frasercain]

Thanks a lot, I'm glad you're enjoying it.

[@AbAb-th5qe]

Thanks Fraser. Your channel is one of my favourites on youtube 😊 Maybe the Dart impact affected the reflectivity (albedo?) of the asteroid and sunlight caused it to continue slowing down?

[@-Thauma-]

This is the kind of news worth waiting for. Looking forward to more in the future ❤

[@alpaykasal2902]

Flying saucer vacating the studio at 18:35 is very nice touch while talking about threats over UAP reporting. It's the little things in life...

[@raystab6762]

Awesome videos! Thank you for these!

[@saeedafyouni619]

dude there was a UAP flying behind you while you were reporting on the UAP, it's flying around your house man. Definitely the closest black hole to Earth was my favorite story.... shoutout to Fraser Cain and Universe Today

[@kdarch1]

Keep up the good work. Appreciate you

[@NunoPereira.]

Excellent space news channel, with high quality content and reports. Certainly deserves to increase 10x its subscribers number. Some type of adequate marketing could possibly help. Suggestion for a future report on the show: the LIFE (Large Interferometer For Exoplanets) project led by the EFT Zurich.

[@Galactic_Peabody]

Question: is it possible that we could get a false positive of the Doppler effect for the expanding universe? Absolutely love the show and all your hard work you do Fraser! Thank you Sir!

[@equinsuocha8905]

Love the info! Also, when will we see the Question Show again?

[@andyoates8392]

We’ve been patient. The specialists have won their telescope time. They’ve processed their data. Bring on the wondrous fantastic discoveries! 🤓 P.s. we want an exomoon 💚♾️

[@handler007]

DEFUND NASA, it is a incompetent and a waste of tax money!

[@johndoepker7126]

Pure reporting on space news without the headline grabbing B.S. !!! THANKS for the work and efforts you put in to these videos, informing and engaging us muggles !!! Edit: the convo with Dr. Siegal was...a helluva good show !!! an absolute must watch!!!

[@YoreHistory]

Whenever someone has a video like this (Great video Fraser!) regarding Exoplanets I can't help but think what Carl Sagan would think of all these exoplanet discoveries? I believe we had 1 confirmed exoplanet discovery before Carl died? He suspected this many would be discovered but I don't think he realized how quickly and efficiently we spot them.

[@ashawalker5986]

Herbig-Haro 2011 will most likely be getting my vote! Absolutely stunning! Appreciate the caution about k2-18. The "signs of life" over speculation can sometimes provide more noise than benefit. It's very interesting news as-is. Great video!

[@topquark22]

Another fascinating weekly episode from Fraser Cain. Thank you. Just keep your Didymus close, and your Epididymus closer.

[@bamaguy5000]

Dang this man has the best podcast! He has a way of explaining everything to you where you can understand.

[@frasercain]

Thanks a lot. We put all this into the podcast, but you get to see pictures in the video version.

[@cottonmouth8782]

Wonderful pgm!

[@GlizzyMilk]

This might just be my smooth brain take on the DART impact but when it happened it blew quite a bit of debris out of orbit and away, with some of it not having been slung hard enough to achieve escape velocity from Dimorphos...upon returning to Dimorphos wouldn't the debris impart a very miniscule slowing effect?

[@musicman2001]

Great stuff thanks

[@corychristensen5917]

Right before you mentioned the star shield, I was thinking an iris to block out the Starburst from other stars on JWST would be awesome.

[@jamesmiller9363]

@frasercain is that a klipch sub I see behind you on your shelf?

[@frasercain]

Hah no, it's a replica of the golden plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft. But I searched for klipsch sub and knew exactly which thing you're talking about. :-)

[@XJapa1n09]

I love the thinly veiled apathy for starship 🤭 It’s hard to find people who aren’t 100% on the space x train or 100% against space x.

[@NIL0S]

Cool about the potential life signs detected by JWST, I'll remain skeptical until further research. About the UAPs, IMO it's worth looking into, even just to see if we can't debunk the phenomenon, because if we can't debunk it, then it's something to understand.

[@ivandimitrijevic2984]

Fraser, you are the best !

[@RV-yg7dt]

Ha Ha! Nice little cameo appearance by a UAP on your video.

[@NicholasColdingDK]

Nice uap at 18:44 :)

[@SoulDelSol]

Wrapping makes more sense than you may think. Our planet is 3d and wraps. You keep traveling and eventually you arrive at the starting point

[@jyinxtv7740]

LOL i love what you did with the UAP

[@loveordie4]

Beautiful images

[@kylegoldston]

13:00 have you ever tried to push a locomotive, by hand, alone that is? It feels like you're pushing a brick wall but if you keep it up for a while the most interesting thing happens. Closest thing too a massive frictionless object available to most people but a 4-6 ft diameter cast iron engine dynamometer flywheel on pillow block bearings displayed a very odd seeming delayed response to forces applied. Inertia, both static and dynamic, can behave in seemingly odd ways once you get outside the realm of "EVERY DAY" objects.

[@theoptimisticskeptic]

We do need to look into these UAPs if for no other reason than safety's sake. SInce it seems a lot of the pilots were concerned about mid-air collisions or pilots going down attempting to avoid them. Most likely they'll turn out to be some sort of unknown natural phenomonena like elves or sprites were until recently.

[@Etopirynka]

Hey Fraser, been watching your vids and listening to the UT podcast last two months... And there are questions in my mind! How do we know - 273.25 K is the absolute zero temp? Could it be that it's just the lowest we ever measured and we're limited to our methods?

[@seditt5146]

I think the gas issue we would need to look for seasonal changes and most importantly changes which seem to go against thermodynamics of that seasonal change. For instance some sort of regular or irregular lag time between seasonal change which suggest entropy is not fully behaving as it should since if anything can be said about life its that its short term actions on a system appear to defy entropy as though life itself is Maxwells demon. Entropy still rules all but without taking the information the demon knows into account it seems to defy physics.

[@CornfieldHolden]

Is the HWO concept different to the Starshade concept? Would the coronagraph be on the telescope or on a separate spacecraft? Seem to be reading conflicting online sources

[@MCsCreations]

Thanks for all the news, Fraser! 😊 About the rant... Well, I've been a believer in the past (I believe I already commented about this)... But now I'm a skeptical, I demand evidence. But how the heck are we supposed to get any evidence if we don't look for it? Yes, most of the cases are simple mistakes or lack of knowledge from the observer. As I saw many times happening and even helped to solve a few. And yes, there's a lot of fake stuff as well, unfortunately. Looks like humans like attention or something, I don't know. But there are still a couple of really confusing cases, for which I just can't figure an explanation. (And I'm NOT saying "it's aliens", just that I'm lost.) For example, I'm not going into details (I can go if you want me to), but there's the "official UFO night" from Brazil. It's a fascinating case, because you have lots of eyewitnesses, probably radar data (that I don't know if even still exists)... And the public admission from the Brazilian government that, at the time, was a military dictatorship. But, again, how the heck do we extract new evidence from something that happened in 1986 if I'm not mistaken? So... My hope is that Project Galileo can illuminate it a bit for us. Even if those are only unknown atmospheric phenomenon, we'd learn something. That alone would be fantastic. Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@mishukzoo]

I would be curious to learn more about that small universe theory. Like something that foregoes the expansionary aspect of the universe by bringing in the concept of multiverse is soo fascinating. It would in the end sounds less depressing than the current cosmological model we have, because of the inflationary quality of our universe and the ultimate heat death that will occur. If instead it were to be shown that all of this could be bipassed by accessing multiple dimensions then that's wonderful news. Of course this would still be just at a theoretical level but still a nicer prospect to think of.

[@goyya888]

Thanks!

[@ashawalker5986]

It would be interesting if researching whatever phenomena affected Dimorphos' orbital period helped understand the movement of Oumuamua. Just some random speculation, not even a hypothesis :)

[@dannybell926]

I like your tiny background spaceship when the UAP chapter began

[@kuingul]

It was there throughout the entire chapter 🛸

[@dannybell926]

@@kuingul indeed it was! I commented before watching it all the way through

[@corneliuscorcoran9900]

T'cha! Wasting billions searching for aliens. With that sort of dosh, we could deffo find Sasquatch AND the chupacabra.

[@sebastianclarke2441]

Its good to see you invest more excitement in Starships potential launch, I remember you were originally quite sceptical of the whole idea when discussing it with Pamela on Astronomy Cast only a few years ago. Your weekly science news show is without doubt among the best. Between you and Sabine, all the important stuff sees great coverage. Thanks so much for your seemingly indefatigable energy in everything science communication

[@Poske_Ygo]

Sabine channel name?

[@sebastianclarke2441]

@@Poske_Ygo sorry for the late reply, I only just noticed this question. The name of the channel is her complete name "Sabine Hossenfelder"

[@hervigdewilde3599]

Lolz @ the Flying Saucer landing on your shelves @ 16:30... 🛸 "The aliens are watching..." - just make sure they're *subscribed* too...! 👽

[@rojanthomas91]

😂 nice job with the flying UAP behind you!

[@frasercain]

Call it in!

[@bbbenj]

I noticed it and find it funny!

[@fredwood1490]

Something to think about: How about a shock wave, bouncing back and forth inside Demorphis, moving its mass and absorbing its momentum?

[@GRILL332]

Omg YOU GET THREATS?? Good grief. What is wrong with people.

[@737smartin]

Seriously! 🤦

[@jmacd8817]

A queation regarding HabEx; if rhe telescope is at rhe L2 point , and the shield is further out, would you get a lot of reflection of Sol on the shield such that it could interfere?

[@robertnewhart3547]

"Secretion disk". Ahem,... accretion. 👍

[@lisasmith6271]

I'm a 1st time viewer of your channel!! I love this video!! Keep more of content like this on the way!! This report is so exciting!!!!

[@frasercain]

Welcome aboard!

[@noelstarchild]

I have come to understand that an increase in velocity of an object in orbit of another, results in the orbit increasing in radius. It seem to me therefore, if the orbitting object slows, then its' orbit radius also decreases. Am I wrong in this?

[@tlv1117]

With an ocean that deep what would the pressure be at the bottom? Would the water even be liquid or some sort of strange hot solid ice at that pressure? Could any sort of life be there? If not, if the life has to be higher up in the water then is there a mechanism to bring nutrients up that high from the floor? I wouldn't rule anything out given only our current sample size of one but it sounds like a lot to be skeptical about.

[@frasercain]

It would be insane, and one of the big questions is whether any sediments could get up into the upper ocean to supply nutrients for life.

[@friendlyone2706]

Newsletter subscribed.

[@frasercain]

Welcome aboard, see you Friday.

[@cavetroll666]

Cheers thanks Fraser 🙃

[@frasercain]

Thanks for watching. 😀

[@iliyerfinchh]

are formaldehyde signatures not suitable for life detection as it is produced by life forms?

[@coreysayre1376]

Regarding transit spectroscopy, and you kind of hinted at this, but wouldn't finding complex molecules like CFCs on an exoplanet be considered fairly concrete evidence of life? I kind of get what you're saying about it being possible that nature could reproduce any chemical that we could, but it seems to me like the odds would be astronomically low to encounter such chemicals in nature. I'd love to learn more about this if anyone could expand on this or fill me in on any new data as to why we wouldn't consider complex molecules as confirmation of extraterrestrial life. Thanks!

[@bravo_01]

Interesting.

[@KOZMOuvBORG]

13:20 when the impact area is lit by the Sun, maybe some material sublimes off, giving a nudge but not when it's in shade.

[@frasercain]

It really is a mystery, but we'll find more when the European space agencies hera mission arrives

[@petevenuti7355]

Just wondering, what "signatures" does Neptune display?

[@Kelnx]

Sun Tzu Cain on locations of blackholes: "It's nice to know where your enemies are".

[@daviddoyle5514]

I wanna know how they can study planets. And tell what type of atmosphere it has so far away

[@triskeliand]

Like "plantsnap" for UAPs. Take a photo, submit to database, allow machine learning to identify. rinse, repeat

[@frasercain]

That would help most people get a quick ID for what they saw.

[@Yora21]

New telescope proposed that would go online in 15 to 25 years? In fusion reactor construction terms, that seems like a very fast process.

[@everettputerbaugh3996]

How much to install those sensors on the near side of the moon.

[@7heHorror]

Can confirm that it's a lot of fun to interact with Fraser in the comments. Great show dude. The only satisfactory result is that aliens are here! ;)

[@TheJasonBorn]

People who think threatening other people gets them to work harder, are the worst at working to think themselves.

[@bullcroxson5892]

Of course there is life out there... dinosaurs came before we did ..life is everywhere..One day we won't be here but life will proceed and live on

[@brendameistar]

Hey bro. Thank you for being a legit science channel and not those dogwater Ai clickbait channels. I fkin hate them. I don't know why youtube don't give us the ability to completely block those shitty channels. Especially from search results and autoplay

[@marknovak6498]

We would need a prediction for string theory for the small universe model to subvert the inflation model.

[@marvinmauldin4361]

UAPs? I'll never remember that. I'll be running around yelling, "Look, a U...whatever!" No one will take me seriously...wait...

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

Most countries still use UFO for their official government inquiry programs. "UFO" is fine, it's what France, Argentina, China, Belgium, Russia, Ukraine, U.K., Australia, New Zealand ... and all the other governments use in their investigation programs. And what the Official Air Force and Navy investigations have used since they coined it in 1952. I still use UFO myself, even for the ones that come out of the water. It's the Global term for these objects, why create a new one just for stigma? Just research it and there will be no stigma, just as there is none for believing rocks fall from the sky. An educated public would help greatly. ("Educated public" being somewhat of an oxymoron, admittedly...)

[@stevenhorne5089]

Can astronomy be used to tell the day, month, and year?

[@labethspain7936]

😃…EXOPLANETS - my favorite! Even though I won’t be around for what discoveries the next generation of telescopes will bring ~ I’m excited for all of you amateur astronomers! Enjoy 😊! ~ 🥰

[@Wolf-Spirit_Alpha-Sigma]

Fraser, as I understand you wanted to hear more threats addressed to you. Here's mine: Bob Lazar is a national treasure. He never EVER lies. Not even in his sleep. If you still refuse to talk about him on your channel and praise his bravery, honesty and his hard, janitorial work at Area 51, I am going to tell him that you're a big meanie and a skeptical debunker. HOW DARE YOU NOT BELIEVE everything about the UFO lore?? Sorry, this was the best I could craft. 😂

[@skenzyme81]

Went to bid on a very nice low miles 2002 F-150 XLT. Damn thing went for nearly $21K. Full size trucks are just impossible right now. Over 800K F-series trucks were sold that year and the nominal price is holding steady. 😳

[@ft3917]

The black and white video off a "ufo" .. is proven to be a infra red video taken with zoom, of another airplane. that is how infra red of a airplane looks like.

[@Dick_Gozinya]

22:57 It's gonna take money! A whole lotta spendin' money!

[@frasercain]

To do it right

[@StarStruckLoft]

Is there any chance that the mapping of these "dark matter" blobs are just black holes or groups of black holes that are creating gravitational lensing and we just can't see them because there is no acreation disk? Or maybe lots and lots of rogue planets that have no stars?

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

If you read paper there is only *~1σ (one sigma) for the one offset case* for DMS detection.

[@frasercain]

Need more sigmas.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

@@frasercain An erudite response Frasier!

[@mikerohlfs2836]

What is the event that is bringing all the material in the JWST image of the young star together?

[@paulbarnett227]

People making threats should be tracked down and held accountable.

[@frasercain]

The anonymity of the internet makes it tough, but I'll bet there are FBI investigations against people threatening the NASA group.

[@LukeGilhamHere]

Fraser, what do you actually think would be the reaction/protocol if we did contact/discover life on another planet?

[@frasercain]

Some people would be excited for a while, but I think most people would just quickly become numb to it. Think about how we've become numb to the possibility of nuclear war, or the existence of air travel, or smartphones. Everything becomes the new normal.

[@dailygumbotv]

I don't know if I missed something so I need to ask you, do/can black holes create lensing of the stellar objects behind them?

[@Neeper78]

Don’t see why it wouldn’t. The bigger the black hole the more lensing.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

Yes absolutely. The lensing is due to gravitational bending of space, any energy density (Black Holes, Dark Matter, Star, Galaxy Cluster) can do that. In fact, some of the lensing caused by galaxies is in fact due to the black hole at their center. It's just a matter of energy density.

[@treefarm3288]

The more I hear about UAPs, the less interested I am. However that picture of the proto-solar system was terrific! Also I listened to the whole long interview with Dr. Ethan Siegal the other day, while doing physical work and enjoyed it. It went beyond astronomy, too. I wonder where I could get a copy of his children's book for someone I know?

[@frasercain]

It's not out yet,, but I'll try to remember to mention it when it comes out.