Thanks for watching super nerds! Quick correction: I was referring to *angular diameter* not size in my discussion of how hard it was to see M87*. See you next week! -- kH

If it emits radio waves, could you listen to "black hole music"?

I'm not a sciency dude (I love science, i'm just some random teenager out in the middle of missouri that knows next to nothing) but I love this channel, it's always fun to watch, you make great content.

I think most people feeling underwhelmed by the image quality of M87BH might be too young to remember a time when the best images we had of Pluto were a handful of enlarged pixels; not to mention all the tv shows that couldn’t but take artistic liberties onscreen. We’ve now reached that point with black holes.

Kyle: *draws orange oval for the sun, and blue oval for a focusing lens* Me: ...Portal. The focusing lens is a lie.

I love how much Internet Thor is geeking out over this. Is adorable. SCIENCE NERDS ASSEMBLE!

The weapon from Ender's Game is the Molecular Disruption Device, or M.D. Device. Since MD is the abbreviation for a doctor, it was ironically called the Doctor Device. IIRC it creates a field that prevents atoms from sharing electrons, thus breaking all molecules into their constituent parts.

"The Watcher in the Lake" is the name of the creature from the Fellowship of the Ring you referenced.

You are a true enthusiast of science, happy to see how excited you are with the black hole photo! Cheers from México!

14:05 Perfect time to mention Isaac Arthur's channel. He has multiple videos which cover this precise topic. It's called a Nicoll Dyson Beam.

If it’s spinning, it supports not only a possibility of an Einstein-Rosenstein Bridge existing. It also supports the possibility of Einstein’s theory for how time travel could be real.

Keep doing what youre doing Kyle, I love this channel and these nerdy videos. In this day and age, I feel that passion for knowledge and intellect of any sort (however trivial or not the topic is) seems underappreciated and often brushed off. Seeing people talking about something they love really makes me happy, so THANK YOU!

fantastic content. binge watching everything because science and nerdist. seeing someone so enthusiastic and PASSIONATE about science (and general nerdism) is so cool:)

Calls humans "mostly hairless apes", has the most glorious locks.

Great episode as always in my opinion. I hate that I missed the live version of it because of internet issues, however it was still awesome to see this video and hear this type of thing explained in the fashion you did.

I love all of the videos this channel does, my sons are always amazed at them all, from why you don’t want a certain super power to a tree that literally evolved to kill everything that would harm it in basically every way know to man besides looking at it from afar. That was amazing to me that all four of us sit to watch your shows when we are all around each other an it is great to have this show that we live watching as I did with the Spider-Man show with my dad, you gave me that memory I have of my dad, with my sons an for that I thank you from that ever expanding edge of the known universe and back! Thank You Because Science and Thank You Kyle Hill.

Yes, we love your highly educational science videos. Thank you!

The Sun magnifying glass was the evil weapon of the villain in the James Bond film "Die Another Day". It was crazy.

I absolutely love how excited you are about M87! I was jumping around my front room when I saw it, and I'm just a random person. To be a scientist and have that photo, I can't imagine the thrill! Thanks for all your videos and all your excitement in everything you teach. Even an "older person" like me loves to learn.

I would try a question: If the Black Hole is sorrounded of heated gas and that is what we are seeing glowing around it, Why we see a "black" circle in the center and not the glowing gas in front of the black hole (between the Black part and where we are)? In other words, why we dont see a glowing sphere?

I enjoyed this very much. great job and I like the LIVE thing. you pull it off well.

Yo Kyle, Veritassium said it, the M87 black hole spins clockwise !

I love how excited you are about it! It's the same way I feel about science, and it's really nice to see others get so much joy out of knowledge.

It's cool to see you so excited! As an amateur astrophotographer the interesting part is way they managed to combine all that data to resolve something so tiny more than the numbers associated with the subject. (It's really not all that far away or that large, compared to a lot of things we photograph...what's amazing here is the image process itself.) Also, don't forget to tell people to hold their pinky *at arm's length* in order for it to be about a degree across.

Broski, you help make Science relatable. and that is just cool!

4:55 for the video

So glad we did this I love science!!!

This whole video is basically just Kyle fangirling over M87... It's awesome

Damn black holes are just amazing

Do you add captions after the recording? It's great material on our projector at the brewery

+Because Science - I love watching all your videos as you make science more interesting and fun. I especially like the sentiment put into WHY you are a science educator and the enjoyment you get out-of it. I have been jnterested in all sorts of sciencey stuff since I was a boy, hanging around my local library, (with REAL BOOKS. To youngsters out there, books are like the internet, bur made of wood pulp). I was lucky enough to get a job working in science for a long time, although now am doing stuff of a more artistic bent. Keep on keeping on.

10:27 Kyle goes country and then had to restart to get back to his normal voice 😂😂

Thanks for solving my doubt Kyle. Love the show. I would really like if you make the calculations about Nicol bolas setting Liliana on fire with a single look. Thanks.

As per the magnifying the sun on earth...A James Bond movie did that lol

Can you do an episode about all the measurements you use, like joules, pascals, arc seconds? It would be nice to better understand all that. Love the show, Thank you for doing this channel, the world needs this now more than ever!

I absolutely love watching your videos. I actually really want to be a Physicist/Astrophysicist/Astronomer and am I'm college for a double major in Environmental Science and History to use for an eventual Physics Master's if I can do it. Keep up the amazing work and I hope maybe one day I'd be honored enough to work with you or win a Nobel based on inspiration from these videos. I love you Kyle! Stay cool, stay classy, and never cut your hair.

You spoke with Kip Thorn? Holy smokes you've got a great life Kyle.

Their music always reminds me of Perfect Dark

While trying to explain lightyears visually and interstellar distances I thought of using rice to represent a second and gluing them in a line to show a lightyear....I would love to make this simple representation with 31,536,000 seconds and an average length of rice being 7-9 mm sadly the total distance would stretch between 137-176 miles!!! I have always loved your videos and you have beautiful👐🏻👐🏻... I hope you found my visual insightful and can adapt it while doing your ambidextrous pen spins🤹🏼‍♂️!! Keep educating because knowledge is our greatest tool against negitivtity!! Thank you and be blessed my friend 🖖🏽

What was that maintain product which you use and where can i get it?

yeah, lightsabers would have been a game-changer in LotR. can you imagine the mayhem if a group of jedi threw their lightsabers into groups of orcs during, for example, the battle for Helms Deep?

To gather all the suns sun's energy you wouldn't use a magnifying glass, you would surround it with parabolic mirrors angled in such a way the merge to a singular focal point.

Hey! Love your vids! #becausescience If lightning was much hotter when it struck something, would it make a louder boom? Being that the sound comes from air and water molecules moving out of the way super fast/ heating up- would adding more heat make a difference?

Good stuff Kyle....Looking forward to the next episode

Omg the hair portion is 🤣

Mane-tain is starting to sound like Gym business with that leaving your ego at the door talk.

20:40 - Yes, you can definitely pass close to a black hole without being pulled in. If you fall in from a large distance, provided you have the right angular momentum, you can pass by 2 times the radius of the event horizon and escape again. If it is a large black hole then you don't need to worry about tidal forces either, because the tidal forces are smaller for a larger black hole (provided you are outside the event horizon).

I actually love this channel and show keep up the good work bro

Poor Hawking...

I started watching the Expanse because of this show. Great show.

Im not sure if this question has been asked yeat but... is there a way to view with the human eye Hawking Radiation like we can heat with infrared? I ask because maby we can view a black hole that way or does it not work that way? or technology wise we just arnt there yeat?

The way that I understand Star Wars travel is that the faster a ship can go in hyperspace, also dependent on ship mass, the less a gravity well affects it. That means that when the hyperspace jump is getting calculated, the Falcon can get closer to gravity wells and thus the 12 parsecs is a good measurement when other ships might have to take 15 parsecs or something.

Mostly hairless *Flips hair*

Biggest takeaway for me in this video: Now I know The Expanse will get a fourth season. 😍

Helium filled drives are cool, but also industry standard for most enterprise data centers at this point. The fun part is finding out there's a transfer standard for how fast you can move data using physical drives named IP over Avian Carrier (IPoAC) after the idea of strapping small USB drives to pigeons.

back in the 60"s when I was in school we would see this science clip.I do not remember the person who did it but it was cool. I had a semi bald science guy suit and tie...and the thing that made it interesting was that he would talk to cartoon figures dealing with what he was talking about....Like the sun and how its energy would help earth and its plant and animal life on it...He would talk about blood and how it helped our bodies and various other subjects...and for the life of me I cannot remember his name or the series he did but it was entertaining and interesting

Because Science: Black Hole Edition

What's at the center of a black hole? Nougat or caramel?

Dude I love your show. It’s funny and informative.

Event Horizon references make every day better. Personally I cannot be doing with spaghettification, it takes forever.

We basically saw the plasma around the 🕳.

Watching "BS" always puts a smile on my face, and I always learn something new. Thanks a lot everyone, I hope I'll catch a live stream at some point :)

I just watched the first episode of expanse and loved it!

I was just looking for a sci fi show to watch, thanks for the recommendation lion-maned dude.

When humans work together, we can achieve great things!

Kyle, first off I love the show, second, how much force does it take to rip someone apart particle by particle. And would a black hole have enough force to do so????

I love how you can go from being so enthusiastic about black holes to giving humble and great advice about hair . :)

Dr. device vs. Galactus would be an awesome fight to witness

I’ve been watching Doctor Who lately can you do an episode on his sonic screwdriver. P.S love the show

Thank you for answering my question. Just so you know, Iam not going to use it as an evil villain plan. I have other plans that will work way better.

Science is like a million times more interesting with you explaining it. I really like your channel!

Hey Kyle, love your work mate, I'm going to try and educate you on Han's reference to the Parsec when talking about the Kessel Run. The Asteroid known as Kessel (where much of that Galaxies Spice comes from) is located extremely close to the Maw of 3 Super Massive Black Holes. The Kessel Run is between (I think, not 100% sure) the Hutts home world of Null Hutta and Kessel, because of the black holes there is only one approach, now, if Han says that he is the only one that can do the Kessel Run in 7 parsecs (or whatever it was) what he is referring to is the fact that he made that run using that route and did it in X amount of parsecs because his ship the Falcon, is capable of going closer to the Event Horizon of the Black holes effectively travelling the same route, but less distance. I hope that makes sense? :)

Kyle, could you do a how to fight a black hole and win video? Spoiler I'm guessing the answer is don't.

What? Helium filled hard drives aren't anything special, and are regularly available. This is a bit of misinformation, but no one is perfect. That's not at all why they are filled with helium. They're filled with helium to allow for high capacity per platter in addition to maintaining 7200 rpm for the HDD. You can buy them on newegg right now for ~300 for a 12TB HDD. (You can search it on newegg as 12TB helium HDD). Helium filled HDD's were purchased entirely for their space density, not because of altitude constraints, and they were certainly NOT created for this project exclusively.

I was in a university astronomy class when Interstellar came out (which was a riot watching the professor trying to answer all the questions everyone had about the theories and physics in the movie), but it would've been 100x cooler to be in that astronomy class for the release of the M87 Black Hole photo.

I was just as excited about this trying to tell my friends why this was so amazing and on par with the moon landing and all I got was absolute indifference. I went from absolute elation to depressed in the matter of an hour. Thanks Because Science I appreciate what you are doing.

So if a Neutron Star is "the max" in gravitational pull and mass, then a black hole is the result of the physics engine that runs us being overloaded.

I thought the beginning of the video has a failed attempt of Megalovania😂

Douglas Adams got that part right in his hitch hikers guide, Space it says is big, really big, you won't believe how hugely mind boggling big it is.

Can someone explain what the additional stuff around the hole is? I tried thunder foot and he is explaining that you can’t see something so small with that distance. Something is added to the picture, can you help me understand what that something is?

....how do you watch this channel and not know what a light-year is? Like the actual numbers involved aside, how do you just not know the definition 'the distance light travels in a year'? O_o

HI THERE I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU WHAT ARE GOD PARTICLES?

This is also why it's so hard to visualize gravity. The bowling ball on a sheet analogy is missing the fact that the "sheet" is in every single dimension and angle possible.

Good video Kyle thanks

Hi Kyle, who has better hair: you or Thor

When you don't now nothing about quantum physics and things but still watch the video

Amazing concept love you’re content keep up the good work and have a nice day

For mentioning the Little Doctor weapon from Ender's game you just became my favorite. The Enemy's gate is down

One light-year is 9.46 trillion( 9.46x 10¹²) kilometers or 5.88 trillion miles (5.88x 10¹²)

Wrong! A light year is just like a regular year, it just has less calories

Love your vids! Weird question, can you control the smelliness of farts and does how smelly it is tell you anything? Like maybe your getting sick? Thank you.

Does the black discovery have to do more with (pure) physics or applied physics? I'm trying to decide between these two majors

TFW you only contribute 0.26% to the group project and get 100% of the credit

Watching this arfter a few is sooooo sick

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt the size we see in the picture not its actual size? I thought the size is usually about 1/2 or 1/3 what we see because light has to go a large distance around it in order to not get sucked in. So with this in mind, does the actual physical black hole still dwarf our solar system? Would it be roughly the same size? Or did you take that into account and properly draw your masterpiece to go accordingly with the logic of the image not showing the actual black holes size?

The HDD being filled with helium is likely not because of the altitude but being the newer Shingled Magnetic Recording such as HGST released 10 TB drive filled with helium in September 2014. HDD were used because at the time because HDD provided the best storage to cost rather than other options like SSD. Magnetic tape is still used in backups as it is even cheaper than HDD per GB. The newest tech in HDD is Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) [HDD=HardDiskDrive, SSD=SolidStateDrive]

I just wanted to add something really cool about the formation of black holes. When the form, it is because the gravitational force has overpowered the strong nuclear force that keeps particles from existing in the same place. Basically, they break physics!

after the image was released, i was talking with my friends about it and i was wondering, what would the differences be if we could "warp" to a safe distance from the black hole instantly after seeing the image, what would the differences be?

Love the vid and I have a related and unrelated question. The related question. Does the matter that comprises a black hole still fit in the periodic table? The unrelated one. How would you stop a Von Neumann machine? (ie: Grey Goo, Replicator, Borg)

This news is soooo exciting!!!! What I love most about it now whenever you watch old documentaries or read anything old related to black holes, we now know that all of that information is accurate. It isn’t outdated.