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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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 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?

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

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

4:55 for the video

Omg the hair portion is 🤣

Damn black holes are just amazing

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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?

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.

You've been the only one so far to show just how big the actual black hole is. I know there are stars out there that would easily engulf half of our solar system if placed in the center, but I don't think anyone else has shown the scale of how big it is. That blew my mind

So glad we did this I love science!!!

Poor Hawking...

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 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.

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

We basically saw the plasma around the 🕳.

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

I know people always complain about he whole a parsec is a unit of distance not time, but in Solo he takes a shortcut that no one dared to take in the kessel run. That's why its so impressive when he said he made the kessel run in 12 parsecs.

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

Mostly hairless *Flips hair*

Regarding the color of the accretion disk in M87 black hole, the scientist who worked on the project stated that they colored it orange to depict how bright the emissions are, while in reality if you could see the black hole's accretion disk with your naked eyes it would most likely appear white slightly tainted red or blue.

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.

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.

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

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!

A pic of a black hole plus a recent pic of a quantum entangled particle. This has been a very good year for scientific discovery

Their music always reminds me of Perfect Dark

Because Science: Black Hole Edition

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!

A parsec is indeed a unit of distance. Even before Disney's new canon shift, Han Solo was not referring to time or speed. He was referring to the fact that his ship and his piloting skills were such that he could skirt closer to black holes than others, thus shortening the distance he had to travel.

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

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

+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.

What's also amazing is that this was originally thought to be impossible, until one physicist put some of the theoretical information together, and realised that light coming to us from near the event horizon would have particular properties, enabling us to see the silhouette of the black hole itself.

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.

When humans work together, we can achieve great things!

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

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

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 :)

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Yo Farticuno GOT ME DYING 😂😂😂

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.

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

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

I took a picture of a donut being illuminated from above with a few red LEDs in a dark room with my smartphone and blurred it a bit. It looked almost identical.

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

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

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

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

....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 Kyle, who has better hair: you or Thor

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]

The fact that this is from the real deal already had me plenty excited. Learning more? Even better.

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

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

It's amazing how strong sunlight is. Just a few square inches of sunlight, that has all ready been filtered by our atmosphere, focused to a point is enough to burn wood. A few square feet of sunlight is enough to melt metals. There is a video somewhere on the internet were they took an old TV screen and they were melting stacks of coins in a matter of moments.

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?

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

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

Black Hole-chan gets Kyle-senpai flustered

Good video Kyle thanks

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

Love that Event horizon movie lol

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 🖖🏽

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?

At times it can be super disheartening and seem like alot of the knowledge as a stem major is useless. Then I realized I understood the math he was doing and got so excited.

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

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

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?