What Most People Get Wrong About Black Holes

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You might have heard that black holes suck, like literally. It's certainly a funny joke, but it isn't true. Black holes aren’t even that weird if you're far enough away. I correct this and other misconceptions with this video.
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TIME CODES
00:00 Cold Open
00:39 Myth 1: They're Big
01:28 Closest Black Hole
02:24 Myth 2: Ultimate Suction
02:52 Stars Orbit Black Holes
03:20 Myth 3: Infinite Density
04:02 Singularities
04:45 Sponsor Message
05:44 Myth 4: Why They're Black
06:41 Redshift
07:10 Myth 5: Spaghettification
08:13 Closing Thoughts
08:26 Featured Comment

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[@akatsukisama1035]

Actually really interesting bc I believed some myths. Such as the density or the light trapping… Well thanks for letting me know my misconception and learning yet again! A nice idea and good video keep it up :D

[@jefflittle8913]

You missed what seems like the biggest one - the assumption that Lorenz time dilation is irrelevant when talking about the Schwartzchild Radius. Regardless of the amount of mass and other predictions of the singularity, the discussion seems incomplete without talking about "when".

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[@cozzzzanostrafamily244]

Please, send at least one article that describes the state of matter under such pressure and with such density. this is impossible. if you accept the black hole, then you accept the Singularity.

[@fpostgate]

I am so glad you exposed the difference between mathematical model and the definition of black holes. So many people just throw those singularity and infinite words around pretty clumsily.

[@ScienceAsylum]

I see it in my comments often. I felt like it was time to include it in a video.

[@robo3644]

Ive always thought that the singularity shouldn't exist, matter should constantly fall inward inside a black hole but first due to relativity it might not even reach the center before the black hole's death but also the closer it got to it the larger the gravity and the more space dilation (opposite of length contraction) should make it so the closer you get to the singularity (not singularity but actually the center) the more you need to travel to get there, it probably balances at some specific distance where the accelleration and length dilation increase at equal speed might be idk like plankth length or some symmetrical shit that the universe likes to do, but im no ohysicist could be wrong and have no idea how to actually calculate sonething like this

[@chriswaudby1084]

But there is an infinitely dense singularity at the heart of black holes though

[@alphagt62]

I’ve said many times, nothing in nature is infinite, and am always shocked at just how many want to argue that. There really is a lot of bad, or poor, science reporting, where such misnomers are perpetuated. I’m so glad there are a few channels like Science Asylum that I can go to for interesting and accurate teachings!

[@cortster12]

​@@chriswaudby1084Only mathematically, it's an error in our math. Not a physical thing.

[@ArvinAsh]

Great video Nick. Congratulations! Debunking the singularity was the best part.

[@ScienceAsylum]

Thanks Arvin! My (personal) general relativity research has put me on a black hole kick lately. The next video is about black hole optics.

[@thingsiplay]

No clone was harmed during the filming of this episode.

[@rodox_sk8]

Just scared a lil bit

[@ugoeze7360]

Allegedly.

[@ScienceAsylum]

@@ugoeze7360 😆

[@_ninthRing_]

Depending on how energetic the Black Hole's accretion disc was, wouldn't he have been just a tad lethally irradiated with gamma radiation/x-rays/ultraviolet radiation..? (Even despite his reduced exposure due to time dilation.)

[@babaali7050]

We should discuss clone rights some day.😂

[@geneticjen9312]

Another myth I see a lot: bigger black hole is scarier to be near. The smaller, the more extreme the tidal forces

[@ScienceAsylum]

Oh yeah, that's a good one 👍

[@kindlin]

@@ScienceAsylum We all just need a little _spaghettification_ in our lives, doncha' think?

[@samuelthecamel]

A 1 cm wide black hole could destroy the Earth

[@h7opolo]

thank you for making this intellectually stimulating lecture also densely laden with original humor.

[@ScienceAsylum]

You're welcome. Glad you liked it 🤓

[@pwinsider007]

​@@ScienceAsylum in photoelectric effect,don't we see real electrons?

[@themachine5647]

@@ScienceAsylum Also, really loving your looser, more off-the-cuff humor with outtakes that you're including. You seem to be relaxing more and having more fun. I hope you and your wife continue to have amazing success teaching science. The world needs more people like the two of you.

[@ScienceAsylum]

@@pwinsider007 No. When we see electricity, what we're _really_ seeing is light emitted when some of those electrons pass through the air.

[@micks9580]

Yes, very humorous.

[@thezood]

Getting a physical model for black holes that actually explain them in our lifetime would be so awesome. It's up there with finding life beyond earth. Hopefully we don't have to expend any clones in the process.

[@ScienceAsylum]

Agreed! It would be ground breaking.

[@kindlin]

I've always been partial to String Theory, but that's probably just cuz I grew up when it was still the new hot thing. Loop Quantum Gravity has had a lot of interesting results. The whole D-Branes interacting is what caused the Big Bang, tho, that's just marvelous.

[@Aerxis]

​@@ScienceAsylumit would be ground-spaghettifying... eh? anyone?

[@Pain53924]

@@ScienceAsylum Hi intelligent person Question: Normally a star is stable because the its own gravity is balanced by force produced inside the star due to nuclear fusion. How are black holes stable then i.e. why isn't all the mass of a black hole in the singularity?

[@wally_g5192]

"so curved that all futures point inward" Very nicely put, thank you!

[@BlazinLow305]

It hurts my brain to think about. Once you are past the event horizon, facing the same direction, forward, you could spin around 180 degrees and go in the direction...and you'd still move toward the center. At least I'm pretty sure that's correct.

[@TallinuTV]

Yes, that is in fact an excellent description of what happens! Gravity in G.R. is basically what a "straight line" path through spacetime looks like. If you're standing on a planet, you aren't "feeling gravity" -- you're feeling the surface of the planet _pushing you off-course!_ (An object remains in motion unless acted on...) The stronger the gravity, the more sharply your path through spacetime bends. But as you approach the outside of the event horizon, it starts to get weird. Even "circular" orbits will gradually descend lower and eventually just turn to point inward due to relativistic effects, if I'm remembering correctly. Passing the event horizon is the threshold at which even moving directly away from the BH's center, even at the speed of light (which only light can do), _still takes you closer to it._

[@Lucky10279]

4:41 For some reason, I find the idea of defining a black hole as "someone dividing by zero" absolutely hilarious!

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

When a human divides by zero, he gets an error. When GOD divides by zero.. Black hole.

[@jfh667]

Not more ridiculous then a punctual object. Like smaller then plank length in every dimension? Im not saying it's impossible.

[@jfh667]

Ths best analogy for a singularity is time at the north pole. Technically if you spin on yourself, you can move back in time!!!! In the same way a black hole is a division by zero.

[@Vexas345]

​@@paulmichaelfreedman83340/0 doesn't exist.

[@ricksanchez1079]

@@Vexas345 Then how'd you type that if it doesn't exist? checkmate, fraction nerd.

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I saw another KZbinr do it a few years ago and felt great about it. Decided in that moment, I would also do it from now on.

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[@gonegahgah]

At 4:33... I actually like that you don't define a black hole as a singularity. Really nice to hear.

[@oldieman730]

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This is the kind of education videos that helps push forwards science discussion on the internet ! Thank you !

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[@MissFoxKat]

(Also she wants to know if you read the comments!)

[@ScienceAsylum]

I do read the comments! I'm so glad your seven-year-old daughter is into science. That's wonderful 🤓

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Thanks for the vid. Helped re enforce the concepts

[@ScienceAsylum]

Glad I can help 🤓

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[@m4n_plasma273]

Huh, now I'm feeling smart! Thank you dude!.

[@ScienceAsylum]

You're welcome! 🤓

[@harthur2010]

Great video! Loved the “Pool of speculation” thing. Going to use that sometime. Wonder about the Hawking radiation part though, I thought it hasn’t been observed yet. Also wondering if the “black hole baby talk” is ……. foreshadowing 😊

[@ScienceAsylum]

You are correct that Hawking radiation hasn't been observed yet, but _hypothetically_ it would be there.

[@jgkitarel]

@@ScienceAsylum Less not observed and not conclusively (i.e. that is what it probably is) observed enough times to be properly identified as such, in my opinion. A lot of this has to do with how Hawking radiation is more at the quantum mechanics level, and quantum mechanics are difficult to parse with general science at the best of times. This comes from the fact that what works at the macro scale doesn't work quite the same way (but still along the same lines) at the micro scale that quantum mechanics works at. The mathematical models consistently check out and we have made enough observations to validate the consistency of existing theories, that the current model still stands, though new discoveries constantly force us to modify the specific details.

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[@LuneLovehearn]

Hey Nick. I love your Kurzgesagt shirt. You may like to collaborate with them in the future, that would be a neat crossover. One of the things I've always wondered is having a stable stellar system orbiting a black hole. Melodysheep made a documental about how having several black holes could be the ultimate power source and replace stars in the black hole era, so you could still live on a earth like planet. He even stated how could you achieve that and even have actual light from a black hole. I think you could expand that theory in a video.

[@Hydroverse]

Informative, yet easy to understand. Thanks again for another good video.

[@filipgren6091]

Damn. You’re in your good form, Sir. This kind of humor is what’s unique to Your channel. Thanks.

[@unvergebeneid]

When you make comparisons with the size of the moon, is it the diameter, the cross-section or the volume you're comparing? Because it looks like the diameter in the graphics and that's two dimensions off of the actual size when we're talking about 3D objects.

[@ScienceAsylum]

I made sure to _say_ "diameter" at 1:38 in the video because that's how I calculated the percentages. The idea of them being smaller than the Moon is true for volume also, but the percentages would be different. (Note: We're taking measurements from the outside. _Inside_ is an entirely different conversation.)

[@unvergebeneid]

@@ScienceAsylum my bad, you did say diameter there!

[@andygustafson1]

It would be interesting to get a perspective (relative to moon scale) of how close and at what speed clone would need to be to not be able to escape the pull of the example black hole to get a feel of how safely close we could get. Great video!

[@thedeemon]

If the clone is absolutely hard and strong, mathematically he can get as close to the horizon as he wants, and hover there. Then use his engines to slowly go up. And if we're interested in a fly-by on a free flight trajectory, without using engines, then he just needs to stay outside the photon sphere at 1.5R.

[@Fartalot3000]

Great video, and you made me laugh after a rough day, thanx:)

[@ScienceAsylum]

Glad I could help 🙂

[@YaBoyGunna27]

thanks for the video

[@PrometheusZandski]

I really enjoy episodes when your wife is in the background. I enjoy the ones where she is in the foreground even more. Funny stuff. Keep it up.

[@honestabe411]

Keep it in your pants

[@SurajKumar-ln8ij]

Really another Black Holes video by one of the best Science explainer on KZbin . Nick ur are really awesome human ur my fav youtuber now.💫⭐❤️⚡

[@devils9844]

Great video 👍

[@ScienceAsylum]

Thanks 👍

[@potblack7951]

Very…well…explained.. Thank you!

[@SSMLivingPictures]

Light may not be able to escape a black hole - but I did ( Im pretty buff). You may be surprised to learn that my black hole had a McDonalds and a Dunkin Donuts, but it DID NOT have a Burger King. Thats part of the reason I came back to Earth.

[@Veldrusara]

Yeah man... I couldn't survive an eternity without a Big King.

[@Andrew-zq3ip]

Was there a Starbucks?

[@ScienceAsylum]

😆

[@geneticjen9312]

There's another good myth corrected during an early visualisation in this video: the event horizon isn't at the outside of the dark circle we see in images. The shadow represents more than just the event horizon. You're kinda seeing the back of the black hole at the same time and then after all that there's the gap until the ISCO

[@ScienceAsylum]

I'm hoping to get into this in my next video. EDIT: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGO8pHlqbKeArLs

[@alphalunamare]

Absolutely Delightful :-)

[@F4collector]

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[@basharatmalik2004]

Hello sir Hope you are doing well Please make a video on origin of sliding friction at molecular level. Thank you

[@juzbecoz]

0:26 when I saw his shirt, "collaboration with Kurzsegagt!!!!!!!"

[@ScienceAsylum]

😂 I wish.

[@juzbecoz]

@@ScienceAsylum coming soon

[@RaoulTeeuwen]

Loved the bits funny part :-)

[@rubiks-monkey]

Kurzgesagt! Nice! Also great video as usual!

[@paradox7358]

Thank you for clarifying these things for when we actually encounter a real black hole 👍

[@ScienceAsylum]

You're welcome. Can never be too careful 😉

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[@ScienceAsylum]

Thanks. Sponsors have been sparse this year. It's nice to be getting them again.

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The Dynamic Duo - Nick and Em.

[@twstf8905]

First video I haven't skipped through the ad! 😅 R.I.P. Expendable Clone 🙏 (Just getting it out of the way ✌️)

[@unvergebeneid]

4:00 wait, so does this mean that if you fill an empty space the size of a supermassive black hole with just some air at normal atmospheric density, it collapses into a supermassive black hole before you're even done?

[@alexpotts6520]

Yes. Compared to space, air is really really dense.

[@unvergebeneid]

​@@alexpotts6520sure, I'm just surprised it's so dense that you're floating there, spreading your canned air or whatever and suddenly you realise that you're inside an event horizon with nothing out of the ordinary ever having happened to give you an indication that you've been overdoing the air.

[@alexpotts6520]

@@unvergebeneid Yeah, the event horizon isn't a physical object, you wouldn't particularly notice anything special at the moment you crossed one.

[@unvergebeneid]

@@alexpotts6520 well, that's still up for debate. But in this case you're not so much crossing an event horizon, you're creating one by happily pumping breathable atmosphere into some part of space and suddenly time and space switch places and all that jazz.

[@jimipet]

It turns out that the whole observable universe has a density similar to what a black hole at this size would have, so in a sense, we are already inside a black hole.

[@LivinBilly]

Weird Idea about "Spaghettification": I used your fluid roche limit from your planetary rings video to try to find the roche limit of a human falling into a black hole. I substituted human tendon tensile strength (measured in MPa) for Sat Mass, gravitation at the surface of the sun (measured in MPa) multiplied by 8 solar masses for the Planet Mass, and 2 meters for the radius of a human nose diving into a black hole. It's really messy but might be fun to play around with... High probability that my math is off but theoretically you would experience particalization at 48.89 meters from the mass of the black hole!

[@modolief]

Thanks!!

[@stapler942]

That abrupt sponsored segment transition was hilarious. 🤣 Reminds me of that scene in Return of the Killer Tomatoes with George Clooney where they start doing ads in the middle of conversation. And a similar gag in Wayne's World.

[@ScienceAsylum]

The Wayne's World ads were epic.

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

03:20 I often read "a black hole is infinitely small" and I always answer: "The black hole itself is not the collapsed body (or whatever remained of it) itself but the inner part of its gravitational field separated from the outer part by the event horizon.

[@unvergebeneid]

You answer to something that's written? So you talk to a book? And if it talks back: does that explanation usually work? Because I find it kind of confusing, even though I already know what you're saying. Also, I wouldn't say a black hole has to be defined by how it was formed. You can in principle create a black hole any number of ways that don't involve stars.

[@ScienceAsylum]

@@unvergebeneid Do you not have an inner monologue? I think it's an inner monologue thing. Responding to a book in my head seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but I can see how that might not make sense to someone without an inner voice.

[@unvergebeneid]

@@ScienceAsylum eh, I'm thinking about things I read but I wouldn't consider that entering into a dialogue with the book, which responding to a book implies to me. In any case, if I were to talk to these books, I'd just say they're wrong because you can't have a singularity inside of a black hole if the singularity _is_ the black hole. I think most books would find this much easier to understand 😄

[@FHBStudio]

@@ScienceAsylum There are people without an inner voice? Because I have a few to spare!

[@darrennew8211]

@@FHBStudio There actually are, and a whole bunch of cool research about how they think differently. Just google "inner monologue research"

[@KatjaTgirl]

Thanks for clearing that up Nick. Does anything special happen to the fabric of spacetime inside a black hole besides the usual bending due to mass?

[@ScienceAsylum]

Assuming there is an inside at all, which we're not sure about, weird things would definitely happen. Example: Space and time would switch behaviors. Time would become something we could move back and forth in. Space would inevitably drift us toward whatever is causing the black hole (like the future). That weirdness is a reason I support the idea that there's no inside.

[@AliothAncalagon]

@@ScienceAsylum I hear for the first time that black holes not even having an inside is an option. But there is a certain elegance in that perspective as it would perfectly loop back to answering why the event horizon itself is enough to describe the black hole. I like it. I will try to keep in mind though that elegance is not always the path to the truth 😂

[@DrDeuteron]

I'm going to ignore the admonition to not talk about the inside, and just regurge what Kip Thorne said: A blackhole is a vacuum solution, it is made from spacetime. All matter goes to the singularity and is destroyed. Moreover, the singularity is not part of the universe...it is a topological defect in spacetime, and all the blackholiness around it is the vacuum (no mass locally) solution to Einstein's Field equations that gets you to flat spacetime far away. But then kip also said the interior is highly dynamic according to numerical relativity...but that may be just during mergers...idk.

[@darrennew8211]

Check out PBS Spacetime for more complete treatments of what's (mathematically) inside a black hole.

[@KatjaTgirl]

@@ScienceAsylum Thanks for responding Nick, this is fascinating stuff! Talking about the fundamental springs in QFT, would they be there inside a black hole or is there an actual vacuum inside without even these?

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[@ScienceAsylum]

Thanks!

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[@DrZalmat]

the best part about black holes: the bigger a black hole is the safer it is to get close to it. You can cross the event horizon of a supermassive black hole and the tidal forces are still weak enough for You to not get spaghettified for example simply by the fact that the event horizon is so far away from the singularity

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Yeah, but you're still DOOMED.

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[@ScienceAsylum]

Awesome! Welcome 🤓

[@joshuabrigden4820]

2:41 Just had a scary thought! In theory whether or not we will live long enough, it doesn't matter. We always have been and always will be on a collision course with a black hole until it happens at least.

[@AnEvolvingApe]

yes, at some point in time your atoms will be drawn into a blackhole. less scary and more wonderful

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[@ScienceAsylum]

Yeah, I was kind of excited to get the sponsorship.

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@@ScienceAsylum why? what it gotto do with soience?

[@ScienceAsylum]

@@PazLeBon Everything has science in it.

[@hurmzz]

Great video! I didn’t have most of the misconceptions but still I learned so much more! Like, supermassive black holes are less dense then air? How does that work!? Do a video on that! And I thought they weren’t black because they would appear to show light from other sources, which I guess still is true for the most part but I didn’t realize the redshift.

[@Appletank8]

I guess the low density is because their event horizons are so big, their super high masses are spread out over an absurd distance, reducing their mass per volume.

[@ScienceAsylum]

What @@Appletank8 said.

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The sponser ad part was the one that really blew me off! Really wish some things are available world wide 😂

[@ScienceAsylum]

Is the Native brand not available in your country?

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@@ScienceAsylum well the FAQ on their site answers the question "Do you ship internationally?" with "Yes! To Canada." And that's it. Nowhere else.

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[@eritronc]

just a few weeks ago i was wonder how big really are black holes, you nailed it!!! thank you Nick!!! saludos desde Chile!!

[@charlescowan6121]

A black hole is just a very exotic neutron star with mass so compacted that is yields some insane gravity. That gravity so strong that light can't escape it. If you look at any neutron stars they do some pretty wierd shit, atomic pasta? Another great video from Nick and Mrs Nick!

[@narfwhals7843]

If an event horizon forms neutron star matter _cannot_ be stable in General Relativity.

[@charlescowan6121]

@@narfwhals7843 See where I typed "exotic"?

[@narfwhals7843]

@@charlescowan6121 and by that you mean "not general Relativity"?

[@mark.fedorov]

Thank you for not killing the Expendable clone

[@kakarot_saiyan]

Great 💪🏼 I knew I was right ❤

[@Ikigai747]

Do we have any science asylum merch. I would love to buy itt❤

[@ScienceAsylum]

shop.spreadshirt.com/scienceasylum/ 👍

[@paxdriver]

There ought to be a sponsor clone for the off-brand segments 😜

[@xdragon2k]

When faced with a super massive blackhole, it is best to have significant tangential velocity relative to that blackhole while being far away from it.

[@AndreSamosir]

#3 & singularity: not "just" pedantic; it's actually important to point that out! Thanks!

[@babaali7050]

love from Pakistan. I really enjoy your videos and I really appreciate they way you make simple description of otherwise "pedantic" topics. Wish you good health, prosperity and more crazy ideas.

[@nielsdaemen]

3:58 *That's crazy!*

[@bharath__100]

I would really like you to do a video on cosmic strings. I really have a hard time going my head around it

[@JoshuaDavidson]

Spaghettification is inversely proportional to the mass of the black hole. If you * threw Expendable Clone into a super massive black hole, he wouldn't get spaghettified before he crossed the event horizon, whereas approaching the event horizon of a smaller stellar black hole would most likely shred him **. * Hypothetically ** don't hurt the clones

[@ScienceAsylum]

Correct. Tidal forces are larger for smaller black holes.

[@vog51]

I love these videos for us dumb ones. I give thumbs up before I even watch the video.

[@allannirvana]

Nick, talk about rogue black holes or even rogue planets, and how much risk they are to us

[@factteachz2566]

Do a vid on what is a wave

[@freezinfire]

Even after so many years, I still love the black balls in space joke

[@elivaughan1192]

best sponsored segment i have ever seen. lol

[@nimbusnation9584]

For a minute there I thought Clone was gonna take one for the team. 😂

[@bentoth9555]

Poor Expendable Clone. You could've told him ahead of time instead of torturing him by making him think he was actually expendable.

[@mariocerame]

Thanks for taking the time with the animation to have the star accelerate close to the black hole and decelerate as it went far away. The detail was not lost on me. But I have a question. What do we call the equivalent of aphelion and perihelion for a black hole? apholeion and periholion? Those sound like dirty words to my ears... This episode was great! Thanks. I even watched the whole advertisement even though I will almost certainly never buy as I need an antiperspirant.

[@ScienceAsylum]

*"Thanks for taking the time with the animation to have the star accelerate close to the black hole and decelerate as it went far away. The detail was not lost on me."* Thanks for noticing. I try to include physical laws in my animations whenever I can. (My friend Jabril would say they're _simulations,_ not animations, but I think that nuance is lost on most people.) *"What do we call the equivalent of aphelion and perihelion for a black hole?"* We would probably default to the generic terms: apapsis and periapsis.

[@mariocerame]

@@ScienceAsylum That makes sense. Thanks.

[@deniznaz9434]

Yes!! Another black hole video!

[@ScienceAsylum]

With any luck, the next one will be too.

[@greamespens1460]

Nice to see the clones are wearing a different t shirt.

[@joer9276]

Replace expendable clone with ‘another person’ and you could get Kevin Bacon bits!

[@johnstevenson9956]

Some are less dense than air...and my brain nearly exploded.

[@bharath__100]

Could you just make a video on waves, their properties wavelengths, wave numbers, and etc. I really have a hard time in having the essence of the concepts, the terms used like plane waves, standing waves etc.. Its a humble request

[@xcoder1122]

The problem with the singularity is that we don't know how far matter can be compressed. Mathematically the mass at the center of a black hole is concentrated down to a single point that is infinitely dense. But in reality, that would only be the case if there isn't an upper limit on how much you can compress mass. If there is such a limit, mass cannot be compressed beyond that point and then the density will not be infinite. The problem is that we cannot look into a black hole and the maximum compression of mass we can still see is a neutron star. If you compress mass a bit more than a neutron star, you get a black hole but then you cannot observe anything going on inside of it.

[@ScienceAsylum]

All good points.

[@vladskiobi]

Love the kurzgesagt t-shirt.

[@aurelienyonrac]

What would you see if you where already at the center of a black hole? Would it look like everything is moving away from you since space is being stretched? Would things far away be red shifted? Would you experience zero gravity since all mass is around you? Thank you Just clearing missions 😅

[@cartfion]

I love the kurzgesagt shirt! I have the same!

[@luminiferous1960]

In response to your statement at 8:38 there is a particle that we see directly, and it is the only particle we see directly. In fact, it is the only thing we see directly. That particle is the photon (with a wavelength in the visible region of the spectrum). We see everything else that we see indirectly by the thing's emission, transmission, reflection or scattering of visible photons. Note that we can and do also see images of objects emitting, transmitting, reflecting or scattering invisible photons or other particles, by devices that detect those invisible photons or other particles and then display the image via emission, transmission, reflection, or scattering of visible photons, but in this case, we do not see the object nor the invisible particles interacting with it directly.

[@ankokuraven]

Caught up!

[@Kremit_the_Forg]

04:00 wait... What?? How? Why? Well no sleep tonight... Guess I need to learn more about blackholes... Again...

[@ScienceAsylum]

You're welcome 😉

[@AgentGliniarz]

Nice❤

[@alanw737]

I can’t wait for the movie “Black Balls in Space”.

[@dimitrispapadimitriou5622]

4:00 Even in the classical theory ( GR) singularities are "spacelike" ( this is the technical term). They're not "pointlike" objects at the "center" of the black hole. They're not even places at all. The singularity is at the "coordinate center", of the black hole, not the actual geometric center. This actual center is not even accessible , generically ( for anything that falls in sufficiently later, after the initial collapse of the star !). That is actually obvious not only from the math, but even from the Penrose diagram of a typical Schwarzschild black hole. A space-like singularity is a moment in time, not a "point in space"... that is the most persistent misconception about black holes! The Weyl curvature diverges as r goes to zero. And "r" is a time-like coordinate in the interior ( in the so called "trapped region"). What happens with these singularities in Quantum gravity ( or whatever) is totally irrelevant. A serious misconception is a serious misconception! Besides that, this misconception is not only about the singularity, but, most importantly, about the geometric and causal structure of the interior of the black hole.

[@tomschmidt381]

Wait what, I didn't realize galaxies didn't need a black hole in the center to form. Perhaps a topic for a future video until then I'll contemplate black hole bacon bits.

[@BenAlternate-zf9nr]

Yeah, the central BH is a tiny fraction of the total mass of the galaxy.