What a Black Hole Looks Like in a Mirror

Black holes famously and spectacularly warp the light around them, so what happens when that effect meets a mirror?
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[@fomalhaut_the_great]

"If I fell into a black hole, what would you see?" The demise of a villain most foul.

[@Maninawig]

I am sad that noone is using Neil DeGrasse Tyson's word for this answer: Speghettification

[@absurdpotato4004]

Looking In With Victor B Neil degrasse Tyson uses that term because spaghettification is already a scientific term, and he did not invent it lol

[@Maninawig]

@@absurdpotato4004 true, I remember hearing him say that... But he is trying to promote the use of that word. Most scientist would say "molecular deconstruction" but Speghettification does add a nice visual.

[@allthingstoallmen8912]

"Most Foul" lmao you didn't have to do him like that😂

[@mr.raphael1507]

Bold of you to assumed he can’t get out

[@antoniasalinas513]

Therapist: Wide Kyle Hill isn't real, he can't hurt you Wide Kyle Hill: 2:33

[@thaias9654]

Fisheye effect lol

[@evankalkbrenner7972]

Wide Kyle Hill kind of looks like a characature artist got a hold of the Nickelback guy.

[@betterert]

schnozer

[@sdHansy]

What every GoPro video looks like

[@infinitestuds]

*"The last dandelion"*

[@korsaiyajinkami3766]

Dark Matter coffee; sounds like Kyle is still definitely a supervillain. Glad to hear it!

[@hughes2896]

“Dark matter coffee” is just the name of Kyles brand of space raised coffee beans

[@stm7810]

dark matter is in coffee already, it's everywhere.

[@Maninawig]

Truely evil as it would be nothing but an empty cup

[@dustierpluto8120]

Gotta run on that dark energy bro

[@damiancrowley569]

If he truly branded a dark matter coffee, I'd buy it. If it was good, I'd only ever buy it

[@paulruiz8150]

I would LOVE to see a character like yours in a movie: a mad scientist in a facility, making evil projects, broadcasting science videos and caring about his company. It would be so damn cool.

[@thaias9654]

But what if we are in the movie?

[@zainiikhwan9405]

There's an anime titled Steins;gate, the mc act like mad scientist and do some wacky experiments with his friend..... Until they accidentally send message to past and get fucked...

[@maironetelehtaneloimori7239]

You already see that character................ It's Kyle

[@callak_9974]

We got Hank Scorpio in that 1 episode of The Simpsons, a super villain who certainly seems to care about his employees. =P

[@STEMpunk28]

@@callak_9974 Life imitates Art

[@stephenturner8394]

Dark matter coffee sounds nice, “how do you like your coffee?” “Darker than dark, why does it matter?”

[@nhat4359]

*Two drums anf a cymbal fall off a cliff noise

[@vasudevraghav2109]

@@shubtakkorathinasapostle1159 and never were able to send back equations from inside 😂

[@lovehawks2814]

I hate to say it, but we don't know enough about dark matter to make coffee from it. We could end up with strong coffee powerful enough to rip you apart at the atomic level, or it could just be a big WIMP.

[@ModestNeophyte]

I like non-dairy neutrinos with my dark matter coffee please.

[@MidwayWuzzupman]

Federal Agent Dale Cooper would like to know your location

[@owenmatthewsacuna3813]

My day job is literally studying strong gravitational lensing at the University of Chicago as an undergraduate researcher. It's really fascinating stuff that not only allows for magnification but time delays between different occurrences of lensing. Meaning you could see the same galaxy agmt 2 different times allowing for even more information.

[@christianhampton2780]

What's your night job?

[@kyzer422]

That's so cool!

[@shaider1982]

You got a cool job. Keep it up👍

[@girlinagale]

@Cole DJ Mirror Phase.

[@insane_troll]

Isn't it difficult to see the galaxies during the day?

[@lucankeyser2111]

You should probably not film in a fusion reactor. Just in case.

[@mkDaniel]

I hope next time when he will be somewhere like this it will also not turn on.

[@Resetium]

Ehh, fission reactors are probably more radioactive. And if anything, the depleted stuff of a fission reactor is gonna be the radioactive stuff. And if I recall correctly, in the fusion combo generally seen as the best option for fusion, Helium-3 and Deuterium, neither product is radioactive, and neither is the output. Just make sure your electromagnets or whatever fusion method of choice you're using stays properly powered/maintained... If you don't, then you have a problem. Plasma tends to be explosive if not contained...

[@kamisenin671]

it might pull a henry hewitt

[@junemoeggenborg1873]

I love the story of how Interstellar helped develop our knowledge of black holes because I've heard that the same thing happened with Jurassic Park and dinos and also with Futurama and faster than light travel lol

[@robbysalz8710]

Really because I personally hate the idea that movies are better funded than science research in this country.

[@CerealExperimentsMizuki]

Really, Futurama??

[@CerealExperimentsMizuki]

@@robbysalz8710 it's sadly, not an idea.

[@anarchistangel2314]

@@robbysalz8710 same. It's sad and infuriating

[@TheLithp]

@@CerealExperimentsMizuki I don't know if I'd say it "helped," but in principle, you could theoretically make a device similar to how the Planet Express ship flies: If you could manipulate dark energy, you could ride a bubble of spacetime to what would seem like superluminal speeds. But, of course, just because something might work in theory doesn't mean it's guaranteed.

[@SpookyGhostIsHere]

This makes me wonder... what is time like for a photon? Edit: This got to be quite the discussion. Hearing mostly that Photons don’t “experience” (I know, not quite an accurate word choice, but hopefully you guys get the intent) time in the same way atoms or other things do. Is that supposed to mean that they experience time extraordinarily slowly? Or they literally don’t interact with time in any way at all? It seems like if they didn’t “experience” any time they would be everywhere all at once and time that if time didn’t move for photons I don’t know how it could move for anything else. But this seems to be a counterintuitive topic so I’m probably missing something :) thanks for everyone who commented!

[@doctorwhoinfinite]

Probably nothing at all, since it doesn't experience time

[@Zatmos]

From the point of view of a photon, it would see itself as a point in a 2D universe in which time doesn't exist.

[@s1l1c0n2]

It's not

[@512TheWolf512]

@@Zatmos 3D* because we exist in 4D. Time is the 4th dimention

[@cleebe823]

As a physics student: Photons don't experience time unless travelling through a medium like glass or water, slowing it down. Anything that moves at the speed of light in a vacuum doesn't experience time. The experience of time is the objects ability to go through state transitions, these transitions slow it down. Hope that helps

[@ryanmccampbell7]

"VFX in a film so good you could write a dissertation" - to be fair animation studios like Pixar do actual research published in computer graphics journals and conferences

[@jbee02]

Man I want to see similar simulation of how the enterprise would look like through the lens of a warp field while traveling at warp speed.

[@dasraffnix9471]

00:55 Luckily this fusion reactor was shut down. Otherwise our man would be cremated in a matter of seconds. Makes you wonder where or if the 10,000V fences took their power from... Life... finds a way.

[@vasudevraghav2109]

No, it was only shut down and closed on papers...... How do you think A.R.I.A, his hyper rail, space ships and he almighty Basilisk work huh?

[@Apu-L]

Well plasma is held by electromagnetic field so if he didn't walk into it he should be fine. Tho if in that heated gas contained neutrons then yea, ded on spot.

[@Resetium]

Ehh, I think he is outside the electromagnets, just in the inner circle right next to where the reaction actually takes place. Obviously he's abusing quantum physics to build a heat deleter to safely contain the reaction as well. That or boring old graphite walls.

[@nikkiofthevalley]

@@Resetium A heat deleter? How tf would that work????

[@CthulhuTheory]

Isaac Newton: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction! Kyle: *slaps him in his newton face* TELL THAT TO THE INSIDE OF A BLACK HOLE!

[@wizardo1012]

technically, I believe that's Hawking Radiation, but since black holes don't really care about what we think, it takes a while and often they are receiving more than they're giving. Do correct me if I'm wrong

[@Resetium]

Actions have consequences, yes. . . . But not if spacetime itself has been corrupted beyond recognition.

[@kamille286]

@@wizardo1012 Actually you're right, supposedly black holes will eventually radiate themselves away through Hawking radiation, but they'll probably be some of the last things left in the universe

[@MechaNexus]

Me: *reads title Me: *looks at mirror Me: Oh, that's what it looks like.

[@valravn5735]

0:53 ARIA: "Kyle, I was announcing "entering the FACILITY", not our experimantal thermonuclear reactor. You're not really supposed to be inside" 2:33 ARIA: "That's what happens when you go places where you're not supposed to Kyle!"

[@betterert]

schnozer

[@hopegarden7636]

That Matthew McConaughey impression was spot on....😆

[@htf5555]

It really is amazing lmao

[@sdfkjgh]

8:06 That's actually his lawyer, and they're discussing Nerdist.

[@Mythis1]

Just found out about this channel and the leaving(?) thing today and I was thinking the same thing.

[@pridefulobserver3807]

3:02 "pew hiuw wu hiu viuw hu " .- Kyle Hill, 2020

[@sethwinters3556]

Gimme yur best "yee"

[@sherekbasso]

Yee

[@SharpGamesGaming]

Kyle's mannerisms remind me of Okabe Rinterou lol I love it

[@OzzieStorm]

Speaking of which, 2020 straigh up feels like someone is messing around with timelines, only everyone seems to have reading steiner xD

[@yahiaaymankamaly3518]

@@OzzieStorm he is trying his fucking best okay

[@tyler1234321]

That final animation was mesmerizing!

[@timquigley986]

I love how educational yet goofy you are without being cringey. Very impressive

[@STNGR4Y]

What is Kyle Hill's big brother's name? Kyle Mountain

[@mugwump7049]

This joke works only in Japan.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@akshaj7011 I get it. It will work in any country/culture where the family name is listed before the given name.

[@mastertofu]

@@mugwump7049 Nah, works in Chinese too

[@thatonemajin3578]

2:37 Can we have more of Beeg Kyle

[@betterert]

schnozer

[@PMW3]

6:40 makes me a bit nostalgic for an old Windows screensaver

[@reddcube]

Veritasium has some great videos explaining black hole imaging. The Interstellar depiction is good, but it does not accurately portray the red/blue shifting the accretion disk would have.

[@danielbeshers1689]

The light isn't just bending in weird ways, it's also being slowed down in fun and exciting patterns, meaning you're not just seeing all sides of the black hole simultaneously, you're also seeing it at multiple times simultaneously as well. It's a before and after picture at the same time!

[@JackBarlowStudios]

Nobody: Kyle: **records from inside a tokamak**

[@HighTechWizard]

Thanks Kyle! I was just talking about black holes yesterday, this is great info I needed for a project I'm working on.

[@Strype13]

Your vocal representation of photons zipping around a theoretical black hole was surprisingly hysterical.

[@dustinpaulson1123]

"It makes you wanna slap Isaac Newton in his little..." Figs?

[@somethingwitty2192]

The only black hole bigger than the one in Interstellar is the one in my ex's heart :(

[@alexandertownsend3291]

That is really sad, but also funny at the same time.

[@alexandertownsend3291]

There should be a word for things that are sad, but funny, if there isn't already a word for it.

[@noodel3374]

F

[@pyrobob5724]

@@alexandertownsend3291 tragicomic but nobody ever uses it. I prefer "oof" myself....

[@uknowngamer1017]

These videos really help boost my creative mood and keep me out of depressive thoughts. Thank you so much kyle and the team

[@williamanthony7081]

Black Hole: Do I look fat?

[@danksinatra9146]

no just THICC.

[@ranwolf1240]

maybe if you stop eating that comes near you...

[@Smung]

Nah, you're the smallest object I've ever seen

[@tiffanym1108]

I haven't been on YT for a minute, I have so much to catch up on, but every time I find your videos, it's just so intriguing that I binge these instead! Thank you Kyle!

[@jordking27]

so glad you're on your own now, love your videos even more !!

[@hyperfocused3465]

The visualizations were so awesome! Amazing episode Kyle!

[@justinm.791]

This is awesome, I've been searching for this type of black hole info for years!!!

[@Karatsukino]

Interstellar is one of my favorite movies hands down. Seems like I find something new every time I watch it.

[@pcriged]

Thank you for making this. I personally really appreciate it. You have amazing content in a digestible format.

[@rybolenefishbean4883]

hey kyle, thank you for being so cool. your videos help me understand some things i always wanted to know. :) you make it fun

[@JockMcBile]

You're so freakin' awesome, Kyle. Thanks for all you do.

[@brandonhitchins7300]

This is the first time I already knew everything that's in your video, and I'm extremely proud of my self. The pat on my back, give me a cookie kind of proud. Being a highschool dropout that got a GED at 16, and went straight to full time work I never actually thought I'd be able to comprehend even a fraction of your videos, but I guess all watching all that StarTalk on Yotube while sitting on the toilet really helped.

[@tokyodeath1233]

Love what you do man keep up the good work

[@YTfanatic209]

My favorite part of my day is when I get a notification that Kyle comes out with a new video. The worst part of my day is when that video is over.

[@Kronosfobi]

I love to see how much you are enjoying during making of these video's. Keep it up proffe- Sir.

[@connorbarker1352]

I don’t know about you but “Dark Matter Coffee” sounds like it be an amazing name for a coffee brand or house/cafe.

[@Hysube]

You are one of may favorite science guys my dude keep up the good work love the information and love the entertaining medium in which you transit this info thanks bud

[@kianamarie3283]

This is the best explanation for my understanding of black holes. It always felt like a sort of impossible illusion with how they’re illustrated.

[@sdfkjgh]

5:36 Petition to have both Kyle Hill and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (yes, he plays _Magic,_ there's a vid on youtube of him playing some of his old decks) on a future episode of Game Knights.

[@OcarinaOfBurr]

All hail Agent of Treachery! 😂😂😂

[@whatever56567]

Awesome video topic! I enjoy breakdowns of things that inherently contradict the perspective of reality that we are accustomed to, due to the scale of things being so much smaller than what takes place in much of astronomy’s observations. I also find quantum physics fascinating but also it makes my brain hurt after a bit lol.

[@chrismodlin6262]

"A Gas Giant's worth of Computronium" lmao

[@ninjaGrim1]

I like that most of these vids are under 10 mins, those ad breaks really do a number on the flow

[@marcelsirer]

Nice holodeck, your channel is thriving! :D

[@cheezygringuysofficial3402]

I like how when kyle needs to not be in frame in the hologram area, he "glitches" out and "glitches" in when he is needed, cool trick.

[@lilshuggah9917]

Question for you science bois - Say I get out of a pool and get dizzy (not enough blood flow into my head). Stuff appears to weigh less in water. If I get back into the pool, will I stop being dizzy as my blood becomes "lighter" and easier to pump? I don't think so, but I can't explain why.

[@rafaelbrisolara7599]

I think it wouldn't, because the blood circulation is only affected by the pressure inside your veins and arteries. We feel less heavy in the water because of it's pressume around our body, but I don't think it would go to a point where it would affect our blood pressure.

[@pyrobob5724]

No it doesn't make your blood lighter. It might help but not for your reasons. But it's also not a good idea to get in the water when you're dizzy. Water doesn't make things "lighter", it provides buoyancy which counters the effect of gravity. It's the same force that makes a hot air balloon rise, for example. The force of gravity is still working against you, you just have another force essentially working in the opposite direction. So the blood pumping through your arteries is still being effected by gravity... But it's all up inside you, and it's not remotely traveling all in one direction, so the buoyancy of the water is basically not affecting it at all in relation to where your heart has to pump that blood. Now if you were just to get into the water and kind of float there, without really moving around at all, in theory your body wouldn't be doing very much... You don't even have to exert any effort to stand against the normal forces of gravity. That *could* decrease your need for oxygen and help with the dizziness *BUT* if it didn't, and you got dizzy and say, passed out even for a moment... Congratulations you are now drowning. Best to stay out of the water if you feel dizzy and just, idk, lay down in the shade somewhere. Drink some water. Cool down, get hydrated, rest and take it easy.

[@SuperSmexyBeast]

Love the nerdist slam at the end there 😂😂😂

[@NickC_222]

Dude, you have absolutely nailed a very subtle and specific nuance of Matthew McConaughey's weird speech patterns. Well, a few of them, but in specific: the way he makes that /s/ sound. Most people make /s/ sounds from the very front of their mouth- it's all teeth, however, McConaughey makes his /s/ sounds slightly "behind his teeth", exactly like somebody with dentures that are slightly too large. It's a sound that YOU specifically _don't_ make in your own normal speech so it's just impressive to me as someone who's fascinated with the intricacies of speech, how you picked up on that little nuance and replicated it so accurately. It's so good 😂

[@jigglypuffwags9406]

Loved the voice impressions

[@seasnek7024]

Always love seeing black hole videos they never disappoint me and always rattle my brain

[@dohboi75]

Solid McConaughey impression Kyle 👍

[@MustafaKhan-mj8yv]

Says I'm going to shut up. Continues talking. Love this

[@KevinP32270]

EPIC video. thanks. i subbed.

[@PegasusPablo]

Dark matter coffee? That's from The Good Place, isn't it?

[@vitorkiguchi4670]

Makes me want to finish that gravitational lensing visualizer me and a friend did for a class last year...

[@Holmesy87]

So a black hole in a mirror looks like a black hole inside a black hole in a mirror. Fascinating. I do love the way black holes 'bend' light so much that it looks like they never actually cross in front of something.

[@artifactland69]

Nice vid, that intro was trippy

[@giggityguy]

There's an interesting thing about black holes that is not often talked about in the literature. Kyle hints at it briefly during the intro, but it's worth discussing. As you approach the event horizon of a black hole, to an outside observer you would actually appear to slow down. From your perspective, you would notice no distortion whatsoever, at least in your local frame of reference. You would simply sail towards the hole and fall into it. But for everyone watching, the closer you get to the event horizon, the slower you appear to go. As you start to get very close, time seems to slow to a crawl. Right before you reach it, it seems like you're hardly moving at all. From the external perspective, you would seem frozen, or nearly so, just before crossing the point of no return. Your apparent speed would be constantly approaching, though never actually reach, zero. It's like Zeno's Dichotomy paradox. In a set amount of time, you might appear to travel half the distance to the event horizon. In the following amount of time, you might travel half the remaining distance, a quarter of the original. In the next interval, you might travel half of that distance, an eighth of the original. With every division of time, you draw closer and closer to the event horizon, where eventually you are traveling minuscule fractions of the remaining distance, but never quite touch the event horizon. So to an outside observer, your last moment will be frozen, stretched across the surface of the event horizon, distorted but never moving. Even though from your perspective, it probably lasted for less than a second, and you may have been dead for years already in the local reference frame. That makes for pretty good sci-fi horror if you ask me!

[@QuintFromJawsComedy]

I was sitting on "Universe Sandbox" (on steam) and was creating black holes of various sizes and just watching them move throughout space for 30 minutes straight, just mesmerized.. and then this video comes out. NICE

[@Lambda_Ovine]

OMG! Using movie budgets and VFX technology in colaboration with scientist to make both research and awesome looking movies needs to be a trend!

[@jasonmolenaar119]

That Matthew McConaughey impression was alright alright alright

[@akakda657]

just droppin by to say that, at least for me, the best change after leaving because science is the fact that kyle fully embraced the super villan persona, much better this way really

[@Potts2k8]

I know you've done videos on Xenomorphs... But I would love to see an episode on a thought experiment of what badass/horrifying Xenonmorphs could be possible via horizontal gene transfer (possibly in that facility of yours) because, well, strange forms are cool and there's some awesome artists out there experimenting with this very thing, that you could maybe showcase ones you thought were interesting and then talk about the ramifications of such creatures or what not.

[@wyrmlingr]

You gettin really smooth with the jokes!

[@lubibubi6380]

Omg who have so much time to do this video? This edits this information this pictures duude omg this is amazing

[@LaylaVaughan]

the michael cane impression was spot on

[@Draliseth]

This just makes me pine for more visually vibrant black holes in Elite: Dangerous.

[@heartofdawnlight]

the most difficult part for me conceptualizing the mirrored images was where the black hole was & how far away it is in all but the first and last images

[@JCtheMusicMan_]

The BlackHole animations remind me of looking into the well-polished bell of a trumpet.

[@thunderpig9953]

You are suspiciously good at that Matthew McConaughey impression!

[@cobalius]

A black hole looking into a mirror would probably try to smile, but becomming sad, because the mirror disappeared.

[@NightlyDaymare13]

Fun fact: I've been growing my hair out since 2016 because of Kyle. We're now at 13 inches, think really long curly mohawk. Thank you Kyle, your flow is fierce.

[@nanoblast5748]

I love how the event horizon of a black hole is also kind of *the edge of the universe*

[@dustinluster2296]

Black holes are gods way of warping back and forth for his different projects he just hasn't been back here in awhile

[@mileonaslionclaw2525]

Dark matter coffee does sound interesting.

[@StarhawkXIV]

Elite Dangerous actually does a good job of showing the lensing effect of black holes, since you can fly fairly close to many of them, including Sagitarrius A* the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way

[@user-bb1bh5dc2e]

when i watched the animation of the black hole, it reminded me of how it looks when water refracts light

[@snivesz32]

The one aspect that the Interstellar director Christopher Nolan chose to leave out of the black hole rendering was the Doppler Effect, which would cause light moving towards you to be blueshifted and light moving away from you to be red shifted. So the spinning accretion disk should be red on the left and blue on the right.

[@jerm22278]

I always theorized that black holes were so dense and their magnetic field so powerful that they were actually pulling on the individual atoms and particles themselves, and once you passed the Event Horizon, the atoms were just ripped to shreds into their subatomic selves, essentially unmaking anything that entered. That's why you have bright white particle jets being shot out at near light speed. Those were magnetically repelled from the core, similarly like two positive magnets repel one another, or a CME from the sun. Just a thought I had since I was a kid,

[@Cosmicfury100]

I don't know why, but for the past 2 months I've been having lots of vivid dreams of me hopelessly passing the event horizon into a black hole and I always feel so much terror and wake up scared still.

[@michaelsurber2923]

My brain exploded when I saw the title, will watch later this evening!

[@garypalmer997]

If a black hole is spining light around itself in all directions why wouldn't it be encapsulated in a giant ball of light. (Think of the light as the skin of an orange and the innards is a black whole)

[@lupercal2402]

Amazing contents, I've watch almost every one of your video overnight. Definitely deserves more sub.

[@Markone99]

Hey Kyle, love the ... facility! Question tho, considering how much power it would take to make them all spin so much for so long, do all galaxies have black holes in the center to allow such spinning on a such a massive scale? Thanks, love the show!

[@Midnight24435]

I think the Detach song from Interstellar did an amazing job at capturing the feeling of danger of being near a black hole. That song just sounds so... ominous.

[@dwsg1990]

That impression at 4:31 :| that was AMAZING!

[@DavidPerez-dt9nb]

that Michael Caine impression, *chef's kiss*

[@ConfusedRaccoon]

You can mess about with Black holes like the demo video in this in Elite:Dangerous. Pretty cool.

[@llloyd4]

Am reminded of a theoretical device. Surround a black hole with a spherical mirror. Fire a beam of light at the black hole. The black hole accelerates the light and the mirror reflects it back to be accelerated again, etc. Bleed off enough to run a power system and you have more power than imaginable.

[@lillys9876]

My KZbinr shipping goal is for Kyle Hill and George Ryan make a ''First guy to ever'' science based video. I'd probably foam at the mouth.

[@evil_ethan]

i love all the black hole science