Black hole blade sounds like an anime character's ultimate attack.

"How does the dark saber work?" dude just lower the brightness slider on the handle.

This video is going to get a whole lotta viewers soon.

Kyle Hill: * Brings up the possibility of dark sabers be black holes * Also Kyle Hill: * Refutates himself *

Physics teacher: today we learn about black holes Kid who watches Because Science: - fixes his glasses -

"If you wanted to leave the planet, and, I don't blame you..." -Kyle Hill, 2019 Best quote ever.

"Powered by... Something" Kyber crystals, sir, kyber crystals

He used a “black kyber crystal” to build the dark saber. Black kyber crystals in the Star Wars universe are EXTREMELY RARE hence why most light sabers used different color crystals. As the first Mandalorian Jedi many 1000’s of years ago Tarre Vizsla wanted to build a weapon that was distinctive to his people which is why it represents so much more to Mandalorians than just a lightsaber. Trying to help you out sir.

"Infrared cameras are used to find humans like you. And me, maybe." Proof that Kyle is not Terran. Also proof that we can't call him a supervillain, as we do not know the values of his homeworld.

Kyle: Everything near a black hole blade would be incredibly attracted to it. Me: Lucky bastard.

“It’s hot just like Han Solo” Ok go on “It’s a tight ring of plasma” Yep, just like Han Solo

My theory would be that the blackness comes from most of the radiation being outside the visible spectrum, with the 'corona' dipping into it. Still flawed, but more likely than a black hole lol.

I love how Kyle casually said “hot and dangerous like Han Solo”

“Gravity shapes planet sized objects into spheres” Flat earth theorists:that’s not how the force works!!

Or... You know, make it so hot it radiates in the ultra-violent range and turns invisible for us

You should do an episode on “Can Rogue from the X-Men touch herself”

“It would be so massive no one could ever swing it. No one could ever lift it.” Ok Thor

Kyle: If you wanted to leave the Earth-and I don't blame you... Me: Hahahahahaha... *sobs*

Kyle: Dark Saber is super heavy and has black hole effect Real explanation: It's just a Mandalorian made Lightsaber powered by a black Kyber crystal

Me to my physics exam after watching Because science: *"My powers have doubled since the last time we met count."*

"Hot and dangerous, just like Han Solo" best line of the episode!

Kyle: This is how the Darksaber works Tarre Vizsla: **Nervous laughter**

A grey Jedi type of effect on the khyber crystals similar to Sith red and Asoka's white crystals. Imagine what would happen if a person channeled _ALL_ of their emotions through a crystal. The good and bad alike. You _could_ end up with a pure black blade with a white barrier symbolizing the light side containing the chaos of the dark, or the light and the dark in balance.

So we know now: the mandalorians were far ahead of the other species in star wars and could control a black hole. Or create a sword with similar properties

Gravity: "haha! yes! I win!" Person: *jumps* Gravity: "aww..."

Black Hole Blade sounds like a popular Mandalorian adult film star.

I'm actually impressed of how this guy writes invertedly whenever he starts explaining equations

Greetings to everyone watching this after Dec 27 2019.

Ok, so I did some research and I found out that what's much more viable than a 'black hole sword' is just a regular lightsaber that contains an invisible plasma (like the kind we see in the ITER plasma in the Korean tokamak KSTAR (you can read about it on their website)) the plasma here is a blistering 150 million °C, and it isn't even visible because it simply doesn't emit light in the visible spectrum. Maybe the Darksaber is some kind of hyper advanced form of this? Idk, just seems more practical to me 🤷‍♂️ I realize there are a lot of logistical hiccups with this idea too, but I'm just throwing it out there. Keep scienceing!

"If you wanted to leave the earth - and I don't blame you" ROFL

I have a feeling this will get a lot of views soon

1:09 "The light saber is hot and dangerous, just like Han Solo" LMAO

Suprise spaghettifacation! Perhaps instead of having a black hole in the hilt, it instead creates a Einstein-Rosen bridge that has an exit near a black hole. So when the "blade" is powered, it just opens the door to the gravity, allowing it to come through. Also, in the past you conjectured that opposing magnetic fields is what allowed light sabers to interact with each other. How would a dark and light saber interact with each other? At any rate, if there exists an accretion disk, there exists an abundance of gamma and X rays being emitted from them. So, suprise cancer too, I guess.

Kyle: if it was a dark sphere it wouldn't be a sword Me: no but it would be one helluva mace!!

1:22 “Powered by-“ Everyone: “A KYBER KRYSTAL, ITS CALLED A KYBER CRYSTAL!”

"On the other robot hand..." I lost it at that line.

"man, the fans really like the mandalorians. Maybe we should stop giving them all the cool stuff and save it for other groups?" "Nah"

I have a hypothesis about how the darksabers work: they look cool, so it just works. Star Wars - lives and dies by the rule of cool.

Who watched this after watching Chapter 8 of the Mandalorian

Maybe it's not a black hole, it just emits light in a spectrum we can't see.

Kyle, first I would like to say that I have watched your show for a long time and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I am currently in college as a physics major and have thought of a couple of ways to make the dark saber work though they aren't as cool as your hypothesis with the Black Hole Blade. The first way is that super black substances and objects, such as vanta black, can absorb massive amounts of radiation such a light and convert it to heat. Combined with a super strong magnetic field that is opposite to the traditional lightsaber, for the attraction effect (though not really useful unless you can change it instantly), it might be able to absorb enough radiation to turn the air around it's edge into a plasma, which allows for the unusual shape. The second way is more likely. The mandelorians may have been able to create a super bright plasma that makes the center of the saber appear black. This effect is observed when looking at bright lights, objects around the light appears black or dissapears entirely. That's just my two cents though.

Do something like "How to build a battle droid".

But why then is the Black Hole shaped like a single-edged sword?

"If you wanted to leave the earth and I don't blame you" lol good one Kyle.

Star wars: Hey we love the channel and would love to sponsor a video Kyle : Ok..... Heres why star wars gets everything so wrong!

Kyle: Or some other Star Wars words that start with S... Sabba the Hutt? No. Me: Stormtrooper. A Stormtrooper Kyle.

Who's here after the mandalorian?

“If you wanted to leave earth, and I don’t blame you.” That’s a honest bruh moment

How would someone wield a black hole saber? It's those dang midichlorians, isn't it...

Kyle: *Says he's not a super villain* Also Kyle: *Creates multiple videos around super villainy acts and weapons* Kyle wanna share something with the class??

This has to my favourite star wars because science episode yet! Honestly, I always just assumed that the darksaber give off only ultraviolet light, and that's why to a human at least, it appears completely black. It's a intresting though it the sdarksaber was actually a compressed balck hole, and what effects it could have on it's surrounding.

Wow I literally loved the whole video. I learnt a lot of physical science, and not matter if we don't know exactly how a dark saber is made of, your explanation is way worth it.

"There's a lot of problems with everything" - Because fiction.

Kyle: "This is how the Darksaber works..." Kyle: "kinda..." Kyle: "okay, it actually doesn't work" Kyle: "nothing in Star Wars works..." Me: *ROFL*

It's actually because it uses what's known as an "inverted Kyber crystal" most lightsabers use a Kyber crystal to focus the blade, but under the gravitational force of a black hole, a Kyber crystal compresses into an inverted kyber crystal That focuses the blade in the opposite way, combine an inverted Kyber crystal with a fine cut Kyber crystal and you get the flat blade like design with the inverted properties (the reason there's no more darksabers is because there was only ever one inverted Kyber crystal found)

The theory I love is that the blade is flat rather than cylindrical, as it appears to be, and the electromagnetic field prevents it from cutting on the flat of the blade, meaning it only emits light along the cutting edge. This also comes with an explanation for the hilt design that aides in edge alignment, and perhaps even it’s purpose in construction, as the plasma energy concentrated along the edge may be far stronger than on a normal blade and able to cut through Mandalorian materials like beskar.

I was waiting the for a “Surprise-Darksaber” joke...

"What If": That Mandalorian Jedi just used the hyper-advanced magnetic field technology to create a slimmer, straight, and much stronger field to crush the plasma into an extremely fine line of extremely high density? The radius on the event horizon could then be explained by perhaps something to do with the combination of extreme magnetism and gravity and the way our visual centers adjust for contrast: Perhaps some light does make it through that area, but not enough to register.

these deductions help science move forward the what if’s and the mind still going outside the box i like this video a lot bro don’t stop

After using the "darksaber" almost exclusively in the force unleashed seeing the darksaber appear in TCW show was awesome. They aren't the same design, but the blade color is the same still my favorite lightsaber to date.

Hey Kyle, great video as always. How about this as a way to make the darksaber work: Instead of the blade being made of extremely large amounts of mass a la a black hole, what if the blade is dark due to the absence of any radiation? Imagine a blade capable of reducing the gases in it to absolute zero (kinda the opposite to the way a regular light saber heats a set of gases to plasma). The heat removed from the gas would need to go somewhere. I propose this heat is channeled along the same magnetic fields as a regular light saber to create the heat needed for cutting, thus giving the glow to the dark saber. The absence of heat, in addition to some form of magnetic field shielding the gases inside, should create a black saber. Any photons entering the saber would lose all their energy and be absorbed, turning into the heat energy along the edge of the weapon. This also would mean that the air near the exposed, extremely cold gas would condense, creating a slight fog around the blade. The reflected photons from the helical bands of magnetic fields carrying the heat would light this condensed vapor in a glow around the dark portions of the blade. Obviously, this solution has the problem of what happens when the blade passes through something, but if the heat along the magnetic fields is sufficient to vaporize the material it touches, the blade itself should pull the heat from that vapor in a feedback loop. My math skills aren’t near strong enough to determine the feasibility of such a device, but it sounds like it might be more feasible than a black hole blade.

Kyle when will you do a Gundam themed episode? We need a video on Gundam's unique weapons.

7:58 funny enough the darksaber is confirmed to be heaver that normal lightsabers.

Hey Kyle, love the show! I think you might have fun with a couple ideas here: 1) you mentioned in the video about standard lightsabers that they're composed of a few grams of plasma; how long could you stretch a couple grams in a cylindrical black hole? 2) sometimes in physics, things can be "effectively infinite" without going to infinity; how long would you have to make a cylindrical black hole for it to have an "effectively infinite" length? Is there an ideal "length to width" ratio for black holes to manage effectively infinite lengths such that we might be able to relate size of black hole to mass, something akin to the schwarzschild radius but for cylinders? If those turn out to be questions that either can't be answered or can't be answered easily, that's fine, but I figure they're at least worth going through! Thanks for all you do, man; you're totally rad fam! (that's how the kids these days talk right)

I feel like kyle is just gonna keep "accidentally" losing body parts until he can fulfil his dream of being all robot

Kyle is trying to make his own pocket void. He is a villain. Love the videos

this is the funniest video I've seen from yall. The Porg joke made me laugh more and more. Gotta remember that unexpected stuff repeated with the right timing is hilarious

I'm so glad that you always use the metric system aswell, it makes everything easier.

“This is your father’s light saber, an elegant weapon, not as clumsy as a blaster.”

7:12 “slice through a sarlacc or another Star Wars word that starts with ‘s’. Sssssabba the hutt. No.” Sith Lord? Stormtrooper? Separatist? Solo, Han? Super battle droid? (Star Wars words that start with ‘s’ but you can’t slice through with a lightsaber) Star destroyer? Space station? Sand (Anakin’s greatest fear)? Speeder bike?

Whos here after seeing it in the newest episode of the Mandolorian and was so excited that we could see a live action ahsoka tano and Sabine

There is also another explanation. Previously you discussed the subject of "blackest substance" with paints. What if the "blade" is a reaction creating an elementary particle that once interacting within the confined field holding the blade shape begins to absorb light. This absorption generates heat and also would eventually generate light. Now if this force is sped up through the use of further technology (its star wars, they have it 😂), we could also theorize this could create a hot plasma around the edge of the blades field. As for the "pulling" effect on other lightsabers, this also would explain it as the matter would be absorbing immense amounts of light. As a lightsaber is essentially a blade of just, well, light, it would be drawn into this light absorbing material. So in theory, the blade isnt a light saber in the traditional sense, but a sword containing a field array to hold the release of generated matter that greatly absorbs light to a scale we havent recorded yet with a high efficiency. It might use a lightsaber crystal to generate the light to kick off the initial reaction so that it had a way to generate the extreme heat and cutting ability instantaneously, but would weigh more due to the added materials needed for the overall reaction. Best I got. Love the videos. ^.^

"Gravity works to make everything a sphere" A *sphere* I'll say it one more time for the flat earthers. *......A SPHERE!*

12:28 "there's a lot of problems with everything" my new life motto.

I was thinking it some how used "dark-energy/matter" to form the blade.

In my opinion, I think the dark saber has some sort of antimatter crystal in it. Because we don't yet know what kind of light antimatter would emit or reflect, that it's possible instead of emitting light when energy is added it actually absorbs and even pulls light towards it. This could explain the white glow around it as well as why light sabers seem to get pulled towards it.

"Technically, everything in the universe is pulling on everything else at all times, no matter the mass and no matter the distance." But why doesn't my crush get attracted to me? "Most of the time, this pulling is so small that you don't even notice." Oh. Okay.

Boze Einstein condensate shaped like a sword vibrating at fast speed it would be both a wave and a particle basically frozen light anyway.....it would be dark and very efficient at cutting How's that for a theory Also Kyle there are more than 4 phases of matter 😮🤭

"If it had the properties of a black hole then it would return to a spherical shape" *Black Hole Flail Intensifies*

"The lightsaber is hot and dangerous just like Han Solo"

Hi Kyle, love the show! One quick observation: if the light emitted by a lightsaber was simply due to the heat of its plasma as dictated by Wien’s law, then you could not have all the colours that we see in the movies. You could only add up the colours from the large wavelength end of the spectrum to the smaller wavelength end i.e. red, orange, yellow then white and eventually blue for the hottest plasma. In the same way there are no green stars, there could not be green lightsaber. Therefore lightsaber colour has to be due to some other mechanism such as the photons emitted from transitions in energy levels.

0:09 uncharacteristic void-canonical error of activating a lightsaber this close to yourself and not immediately bursting into flames. and screams.

I would consider it an artificial event horizon created by manipulation of scapetime like a warp engine.. A directed spatial field that only looks like and at the surface acts like touching an event horizon without all the mass. Though it would not cut. It would rip matter apart at the basest level.

Firstly, the Darksaber is easily the coolest lightsaber in Star Wars. I think the Darksaber could be black because it's "Dark Matter plasma" a science fictional state of matter(you know, like the show lol). I love this channel for attempting to bring some science to science fiction. Great video! Second, I recently watched a pretty interesting video on a micro "cold plasma" jet that can be used to sterilize surfaces without being hot. I think it was the plasma channel or something like that.

The mandalorian: *is released* The entirety of my youtube recommendations: *becomes mandalorian related* Ni cuyir briikase mando’ade dalyc

Evil Kyle has a plan: he does not want to be human anymore

Expect this to get a lot more views

My headcanon is that Kyber crystals are stable amorphous solids, they stay as crystals until they're vibrated at a high speed, making the crystals expand. The vibrations makes them move so fast that friction is what grants them cutting power and its cauterizing and burning properties

i love how his voice gets deeper when he falls into the black hole due to doppler's effect ! genius !

Me: thinks I'll be a warrior if I can get a lightsaber What I'll actually do 0:17

Wookieepedia gave this as an explanation "The Darksaber was an ancient, black-bladed lightsaber. Unlike most other lightsabers, the Darksaber's blade was nearly flat, thin, and curved to a point more typical of a metallic sword. The black core of the blade appeared to draw in all surrounding light and color, leaving a faint white, electrical aura along its edges" for appearance and "The Darksaber had a crystal which served as a conduit for Force energy. The wielder's thoughts and actions guided the blade's current of power, with the blade often producing an electrical effect in response to a heightened emotional state" for function and obviously would have a BLACK KYBER CRYSTAL

Great episode as always... But I felt the lack of "surprise light saber!" and spontaneously catching on fire (a problem the darksaber doesn't fix either)

Discount Thor: if you had a sword made out of a black hole no one could lift it, no one could swing it. Thor: am I a joke to you?!

Kyle: No one could lift it. Superman: Hold my beer.

this is very relevant this week.

"What is a darksaber?" A reconstruction of the original superlaser, controlled by Durga the Hutt. Oh, wait, they took that out of canon when Disney bought Lucasfilm.

Its just a sliver of the "VOID" Darth Kyle lives in...

I'm a simple man. I see Kyle and a Lightsaber, I hit Like!

The darksaber is definitely one of the most unique star wars sabers ever.

In canon it’s said the dark saber draws other sabers closer to it and it mesmerizes ppl who look into its blade too much