I'd just like to mention, it's delightfully refreshing to see a reactor who gets straight to the point and doesn't waste time on overly drawn-out video intros. Sometimes less is more.

@jamesl1809

6 ай бұрын

Those intros drive me away and I skip over them to get to the content if it's interesting to me. If you're smart enough and good enough you don't need that crap. This young woman blows me away and she's not even trying to impress. It just happens. I love the topic but it hurts my brain.

@DeanDangerousTDD7

6 ай бұрын

I feel the same way too. American Intermediary 11/18/23

@Lumberjack_king

6 ай бұрын

I mean we all read the title and saw the thumbnail so intros aren't really necessary

@collectivevision9884

6 ай бұрын

Agreed, I usually find myself skipping all intros and getting straight to the video and I’ll watch them express their thoughts afterwards.

The fact that something as crazy as a black hole was predicted my mathematics, and then actually observed to exist speaks volumes about just how powerful our physics and mathematics have become.

@ogkendrick6392

6 ай бұрын

And still there are people who don’t believe in numbers and they think we’re living on a ffing pizza traveling through space

@TheDylls

5 ай бұрын

YES! When my buddy and I were a bit baked one time, he started asking me "Well, why DOES 1+1=2?" He was coming at it from a more philosophical point, which I agreed to. But I told him that what I DID know was that by "simply assuming 1+1=2", we now have cell phones 😂❤

Your memory recall is outstanding, something that I really struggle with. Black holes are fascinating, we know so little about them. I doubt we'll ever actually know whats happening inside them because there is no way to get the information out unless we figure out FTL travel. The prof Cox has some really good videos on them, nice and simple, but full of information. Related music recommendation from me, Black hole sun by soundgarden.

@thejoelrooganexplosion2400

6 ай бұрын

Your memory recall is outstanding. She got that gud brain

@weefek

6 ай бұрын

FTL has zero bearing on understanding black holes tbh.

@kyzer422

6 ай бұрын

@@weefek It has some bearing, as the only way to escape from inside the event horizon would be to travel faster than light. The only way we could ever be certain about our theories is if we could examine the inside of a black hole.

@Fermion.

6 ай бұрын

We'd have a better shot of understanding the interior of black holes through simulations made through the marriage of quantum computing and AI, than actually studying them physically.

@fonkyman

4 ай бұрын

​@@Fermion.But we hav3 an even bigger chance of dumb humans using AI to mess eachother up.... So mehhhhhhb

The second 'g' in "Kurzgesagt" is not silent. Also the 'u' is pronounced more like in Fool, only briefer.

You're probably the 'realest' KZreadr I know right now, and it's great to see you exploring all kinds of stuff on this channel. I might not watch everything, but it's refreshing to see someone who doesn't overreact to everything for content. Great stuff, as always!

I love curious minds like yours. These are the type of people I can have the best conversations with. Your videos are great, keep it up

On the AI topic - you should read The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman, if you haven’t already. Some may argue it’s a bit on the alarmist side, but I think Suleyman’s expertise is def worth at least listening to. It has me calling the “future-proofness” of my comp sci degree into question, and I can totally see AI being the great filter. Maybe (and hopefully) I’m just crazy. Off topic, but you should do more Geogrpahy Now country reactions. Maybe an African country this time? I just read The God of Small Things that you recommended in the India video, and I have to say it’s the most miserably beautiful thing I have read in a while - maybe ever!

@NoProtocol

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this! I appreciate the support (: Also, I’m glad you read it! I remember finishing that book with tears but also a bit horrified & then had to search online to confirm how much of it was real (the jury is still out). I’m not familiar with the title you mentioned or the author- I’ll put it on my list but in general I hope that AI fear falls into categories of alarmism or hyperbole. Whether that is truly the case or not, I have no idea haha

@user-gn1cl9ix7p

6 ай бұрын

That's how I felt when I first read Kurzweil. @@NoProtocol

@EdMac40

6 ай бұрын

I just downloaded "The God of Small Things" to my Kindle, based on NP's recommendation. It's great that you are continuing to support this terrific channel, Daniel.

@EdMac40

6 ай бұрын

Daniel (and NP), I finished "The God of Small Things". You prepared me for the ending, and indeed, there were many hints along the way in the book itself. I agree that it was a great read, and very well-written. I have a problem, though. You guys are relatively young, and I am actually quite old (83). As I look at what's happening in the world around me, I find it harder and harder to watch or read anything of a heavy nature. At this point in my life, I look to books or movies as an escape. Escaping to a place as depicted in that book is a great example of "from the frying pan into the fire. 😅. On the other hand, I couldn't put it down. Right now, though, I need a laugh.

@semiramisubw4864

6 ай бұрын

never heard of that person, gonna look it up. Thanks for that information.

Black holes are one of the most fascinating objects in the universe. They are objects were both general relativity, and quantum mechanics both get pushed to their limits. Hopefully in the future we will have a quantum theory of gravity to mesh both of these theories together and maybe then have a more solid idea about the singularity.

@not_glad

6 ай бұрын

Yeh this is really annoying with our current understanding. We all want to know what is beyond the event horizon, it's the biggest 'dunno' in physics.

I’m really glad I found your channel a few months ago.=) This is how all commentary videos should look like.

@NoProtocol

6 ай бұрын

Hey, thank you (: I’m glad you’re liking it so far

@sailorb3944

6 ай бұрын

​@@NoProtocol Hi NoProtocol ! I would like to ask: Is "Jonah Lomu ULTIMATE TRIBUTE ♛ Lord of the Wings" somewhere on your request list ? I just ask in case you forgot. I watched your rugby reaction a while ago, and although I have enjoyed it, I knew there is so much more to it. And Jonah was the most complete player you could get. I would love to see you get into old school boxing videos, I know many good positions there. I have other requests also. I would be grateful if you responded.

I am so down for a part 2 to this video.

I'm definitely down for part 2. By the way, yes. There has been larger black holes discovered since the release of that video. The largest black hole discovered so far is TON 618.

Everyone should read Hyperion. It won a Hugo in 1989 I think. It's the first of 4 books. I read them all and loved them all. You don't have to read all of them. The first one is written like The Canterbury Tales. The other are written in other styles. But the first book Hyperion is about multiple people traveling together to and on the Planet Hyperion and them telling their stories as to why they are presently on said jury together. In this story The Earth has been slowly destroyed from a black hole sinking into the core from a experiment gone wrong called "The Big Mistake". But why I bring it up is because a Black Hole causes "The Hegemony of Mankind" all the Humans flee into space with faster than light travel discovered by A.I. It's a fascinating read and touched on multiple topics from this video.

@DSKekaha

6 ай бұрын

I loved the Consul's story, where time debt makes Siri and Merrin age at different rates

Love how you just get right into it 👍🏽

Black holes are a fascinating topic. There's a PBS Spacetime episode that talks about an alternate theory that I thought was a neat way of looking at it. Maybe it will get mentioned in the other Kurzgesagt video. The gist of it (iirc) was that singularities are derived from mathematical models we use to describe their observed behaviour. Something else could be going on but learning about anything past the event horizon is hard. Someone proposed another alternative based on the relationships between mass, gravity, and time. It's almost like the more mass you concentrate into a volume of space the more time is required for causality to keep ticking along. Everything starts to slow down (from our outside frame of reference). Their proposal (as I understood it) was that rather than creating a point of infinite mass at the center of a black hole, that the relationship between space and time inside a black hole could become extreme enough that a volume of space within could grow where the distance to cross that volume is compressed, but the amount of time it would take to cross becomes effectively infinite instead. I hope I remembered any of that correctly.

I can sit and just listen to you talk. Love it

Great topic & commentary. Aldo your subs are brilliant too

There is a song by Dr. Steele called The Singularity Disney made a movie called The Black Hole As a side note, your wide eyed kid-in-a-candy-shop look while watching this was adorable.

You are absolutely breathtaking! Beauty fully encapsulated by Intellectual curiosity and superiority absolutely has me in awe and in for lack of a better description in love!!! 😂

you brought up a good point when you made a comment about AI and how it will transform our understanding of a black hole. Its mind blowing to think about what's happening at the center. cool vid😎

great video as always. in 2014 I sent my opinion on black holes to Lawrence Klaus, he never responded. 5 years later, my opinion was published in science magazine lol. This video did a great job explaining hawking radiation in a simple way.

I'd love to see you react to part 2 of this.

Yes! Watch part two!

Yes please react to more Kurzgesagt Videos. They are amazing. Some of my favorites are the ones to the Fermi Paradox

Literary suggestions: the book by @Dr. Becky "A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong" for actual real science (admission: I do not own it and have not read it!) and for fiction the Heechee Saga by Frederick Pohl. Music recommendation: Black Holes (Don't Hold On) by The Warning (though anything by them is very good!) I'd like to see part 2 of this, pretty please! It's nice to actually see/hear someone talkng about black holes and not going overbaord about the gravitic effects - gravity is proportinal to mass, so just because somethingbecomes a black holes does NOT mean the gravity goes up - all it means is that you can get closer and as gravity is an inverse square rule the effect gets stronger the closer you get. The being killed quickly part of being torn into a stream of single atoms is called being spaghettified! 😁

@Frosty-1313

6 ай бұрын

The way she explains complex subjects makes them much more approachable.

Definitely part two please

for e literary recommendation, I would suggest A brief history of Black holes by dr. Becky Smethurst - astrophysicist specialised in Black holes and she also has an interesting youtube channel on all things astrophysics -> dr. Becky

You are awesome please don't stop making videos!

I love your work...part 2 please

As to your literary reference, House of Leaves, Robert A Heinlein wrote a book called Glory Road that included a tetrahedral trunk. The trunk is described as a bottomless and weightless storage space. It's essentially a magical or advanced technological item that allows for the storage of numerous items without adding weight or taking up physical space when closed. The description in the book emphasizes its fantastical properties, making it an interesting and useful element in the story. (You would love this book) Heinlein also wrote about a tetrahedral house that was bigger on the inside than the outside. Long before House of Leaves. Technically it is possible.

@geofftottenperthcoys9944

6 ай бұрын

And in D&D you have Portable Holes that can be used as storage like that.

Re larger black holes than mentioned in the video. There are three or four larger candidates. With TON 618 being the largest. There are a couple of potentially larger, however they are both outside the current theoretical limit so may be errors, or, of course our models may need refining. I read house of leaves… it was a fantastic, I loved the typography they used which made it a fun and at times quirky read. With the page/text layout mirroring the ‘feel’ of what was occurring in the book. Couple of recommendations if I may big you’ve not watched (listened to any yet), check out Sean Carroll’s ‘Mindscape’ podcasts. Absolutely superb. You will love those. Especially his ‘ask me anythings’ you get once a month. Also his current book, The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. Space, time and motion. By the end you understand GR pretty well, it’s so well written.

I had an amazing science/math teacher in junior high school. He always corrected someone when they used the term "educated guess" because we aren't guessing, we're estimating, we're using what we already know to form a rough answer, so it's not guessing. I thought you might find that interesting.

Yes to the Muse reference! EVERY time I hear Supermassive now :D

And finally: There are many songs that explore themes of darkness, mystery, or the unknown, which could be metaphorically associated with black holes. Here are some songs that might evoke a sense of the cosmic or mysterious: "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden "Interstellar Overdrive" by Pink Floyd "Space Oddity" by David Bowie "Dark Star" by Grateful Dead "Astronomy Domine" by Pink Floyd "Black Planet" by Sisters of Mercy "Event Horizon" by Dope Stars Inc. "Stellar" by Incubus "Black Hole" by She & Him "Black Hole Heart" by Stone Temple Pilots "Voyage to the End of Time" by Ayreon "Cosmic Dancer" by T. Rex "Rocket Man" by Elton John "The Universe Sent Me" by The Chemical Brothers These songs vary in style and genre, but they all touch on themes that could be loosely associated with the mysterious and fascinating nature of black holes.

Your amazing smile always brightens up my day. Glad to see you popping back up in my algo :)

definitely do part 2 :)

Yay! Black hole video!

This prompts me to request, from you, a video on magnetars. Can you imagine the most magnetic known object in the universe with a teaspoon of its core material weighing 100 million tons?

It's also possible we've already observed a black holes final outburst of hawking radiation. I remember reading or hearing about random outbursts of a lot of energy but no objects were found when telescopes tried to find the source, some speculation exists about the signals being white holes as well though.

the German at the end was (*chefs kiss)

Bring on Part 2. 👍😊

Phoenix A* is currently the biggest black hole we've found, at 100 billion solar masses.

I'm glad you noted that much of what we 'know' about black holes is speculation. I'm pretty sure I have lamented before in your comments that scientists need to be more humble and talk about more of their 'theories' as speculation.

no way you just threw in a Muse reference there. love those guys

Your videos are so interesting, tell us more adout your self.

Look up some videos of leonard susskind. He's an important person in the history of trying to figure out a lot of paradoxes to do with black holes, and some of those solutions to those paradoxes are possibly getting us towards some answers about quantum gravity. Super cool stuff. Also susskind is an amazing explainer of things. Brilliant educator. You'll love listening to him. Also I think the biggest black hole is 17 billion times the mass of our sun.. I forget its name.

Supermassive Black Holes was playing every day on my ride to school! Not on the radio though, my mum had the Black Holes and Revelations CD playing in the car for a good year 😂

Ok, loved the intro.

8:24 as a rule of thumb whenever you see a german word usually there are no silent letters, so you should pronounce everything 9:07 the one example that immediately comes to my mind is Steins;Gate, although afaik the way time travel works in that story piggybacks off of the early 2000's John Titor hoax

@NoProtocol

6 ай бұрын

This is noted! Thank you

I recently finished the Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor, very fun read about AI replicants who are a 1:1 neurological copy of a real person named Bob. No black holes in it, but lots of other interesting concepts as the Bobs bootstrap humanity from a 21st century technological level to space colonization. Greatly recommend it.

Space Song didn’t make me sad, but did make me nostalgic, which can be a kind of sadness. Maybe I heard it before in a parallel universe. And the other song reminded me of David Bowie. Enjoyed both.

Beach House!! One of my favorite bands, very underrated

You missed a "gimme". I'm devastated!! Black Holes and Time Travel... Dr Who of course!! This is the title of the first of 6 shorts with cameos by my second favorite Dr, Matt Smith. I'm 60 so I know them all. "Is Time Travel Possible? | The Science of Doctor Who | Doctor Who" A Brian Cox Lecture. I've seen the whole show but I can't find it on youtube.

I've been a superfan of black holes ever since the late 70's, when I first played "Cygnus X-1" by RUSH.... 🤘🤘🤘 Spinning, whirling Still descending Like a spiral sea Unending... Sound and fury Drown my heart Every nerve Is torn apart...

4:31 - I think it already has, but it also suggested your channel, so it's all good.

Haha I just started reading House of Leaves, so when you started to talk about it, it kinda freaked me out lol guess that’s fitting considering how strange that book has been so far.

5:37 this is know as spaghettification. Actually I believe a super mass black hole know as TON 618 is the largest in the universe (66 billion solar masses).

@kiraoshiro6157

6 ай бұрын

knees weak

You mentioned Brian Cox he does fantastic videos on black holes and physics in general, he’s got a knack of making mind bending theories make sense, we are literally children of the stars

I see there is a much bigger black hole that we know of. Ton 618. There is so much we don't have don't know about space. But I do believe we can't comprehend how big the universe is. Is there a ending. Or infinity?

I only took two years of German but if I remember correctly, there are no silent letters in that language. One thing they didn't mention (and why it's believed large black holes are more gentle) is that black holes become less dense with size: Let's say we want a black hole with an average density equal to that of Earth's atmosphere. How big would it be? The circumference would approximate Jupiter's orbit. The very largest black holes could have average densities that border on what we'd consider a vacuum. Makes you wonder...

@THomasHH

6 ай бұрын

German has indeed no silent letters - unless you speak slang or slurs the pronunciation 😊.

I enjoyed the movie interstellar 2014: Set in a dystopian future where humanity is embroiled in a catastrophic blight and famine, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a blackhole to find a new planet for humans. The movie explores time and different realities. The movie music by Hans Zimmer is excellent.

@user-gn1cl9ix7p

6 ай бұрын

You didn't mention TARS or CASE.

Black holes are very interesting .

The video for Like the Moon was fun. Beach House - Space Song however is going to drive me nuts. It's giving me that feeling that I've heard it before somewhere but I just can't put my finger on where. I want to say from some movie or show, but I just don't know. Might be my imagination. I think I would describe the vibe I got from it as melancholy; sad but also contemplative. Might be from the slow steady beat. The melodies have a nice ebb and flow too.

I found an interesting video on recent AI developments in my feed. It has a clickbaity title, "Boston Dynamics Unveils New 24/7 AI Robot + 5 Automation Upgrades" but it touches on a few topics. The most interesting I found was how Boston Dynamics has been tailoring one of their designs for a better blend of price and utility in preparation for market. It's a shame some of their cooler looking designs didn't hold up in that category.

The main reason why astrophysicists are sure that black holes do exist is because we've had a LOT of (indirect) observations of invisible ultra-dense objects. The most common example are x-ray sources drawing gas off a companion star. By studying their orbit around each other, you can work out their masses. They've also tracked stars passing near and being deflected by some invisible object at the center of galaxies or globular clusters. Working out the mass and velocity of the star, you can work out the mass of the invisible object. So yes, it would be amazing to study one directly, but astrophysicists can tell the difference between a black hole and a neutron star or white dwarf; they can all draw gas off stars, but black holes don't explode like the other two are prone to do when they accumulate too much gas.

I love this channel. It's different than most. I will never understand why No Protocol doesn't start a Patreon. I would like to see a live Q & A Stream as well

The biggest black hole now is called TON 618, but there are a couple "candidates" that might be larger, at least according to Wikipedia. I've seen some vids on TON 618, but don't remember much.

I also have a music recommendation matching the topic - Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden

@NoProtocol

6 ай бұрын

excellent choice

You should watch Fun to Imagine with Richard Feynman. It's like an hour long so maybe break it up into multiple videos but I know you'd love it. His QED book changed my life. I highly recommend it and his lectures on it.

Great channel! And speaking of AI; if you haven't seen the TED talk "Can we build AI without losing control over it?" by Sam Harris, I'd really recommend it. It's both thought provocing and funny.

I read House of Leaves a few years ago, I don't remember much beside it being interesting and a bit odd. My friend thought it was the second coming, he's the one who made me read it.

The "singularity" is beyond me. I prefer to think that mass is covered into energy and the energy ties spacetime into an ever tightening knot. So there's "nothing" in the middle just and endless knotted loop of spacetime like a twisted rubber band. But that's just because I don't understand infinity. I think every use of infinity should come with a warning sign, "this infinity is incomplete, still under construction and is NOT safe to use" 😂😂😂

Take a talk with Dr Becky at Oxford University

It's hard to believe that just a few decades ago when I was still a child, black holes were regarded as more of a fun speculative hypothesis which, while having a solid basis in mathematics, still straddled the fence between science fiction and reality. The same could be said about the existence of exoplanets. Today, both these speculations are known to be reality while the existence of alien life is the fun speculative hypothesis of the day still awaiting some type of solid confirmation to coax it off the fence and fully in the field of reality.

Just thinking about this makes my hair hurt, but yes, I'd like to see Part 2.

Hey, the second g in Kurzgesagt is pronounced, either with the normal g sound, or "kh" in some particular regions in Germany. Cheers.

Love your hair :)

if you can find it you should check out the documentary series Cosmos originally made in 1980 and remade with updated science in 2014. for me the 1980's one wins out because Carl Sagan was an amazing science communicator and Vangelis provided a great score. there are versions of the 80's that have inserts in the episode or at the end that details any changes in what science thinks

Oh and as a sf-nerd i absolutely love "Space song" by beach house!

Yeah, the general state of our understanding of physics does rely on many indirect inferences. A good example of this would be how we calculate vast distances across space using something called a cepheid variable. We have made many observations of these objects that imply they have a very specific period-luminosity relationship that (according to our observations) remains consistent universally across space. If this turned out not to be true then our subsequent calculations of the expansion of the universe, the distance to other objects across space and even the age of the universe would all come into question. I'm not sure how many things we infer indirectly from other situations like this. But when we get to certain scales (smaller OR bigger) we get to a point where most of our understanding becomes mathematical. Direct observations are very difficult. Dark matter is a good example. We have a particular understanding of gravity based on our observations of nearby planets, stars and observations on earth, and without adding the concept of dark matter (essentially a particle that only interacts gravitationally) other calculations based on other more distant observations don't make sense. we have to introduce the concept of dark matter just to make our observations make sense. Our science could very well be a house of cards waiting to come tumbling down. Or we could be really close to putting the last few cards on. What science believes is not necessarily true, its just the best, most practicably functional theory we have currently.

My favorite Dr. Who episode!

Sweet thanks for sharing so cool 😎 love and happiness ❤

Music recommendation: I speak astronomy, by Jinjer Book recommendation: A brief history of black holes by Dr. Becky Smethurst

I like the idea of going into a super massive black hole and looking out to see time speed up. This way it would be the the galaxy’s best fireworks display as all the stars go supernova in a matter of seconds😊

AI singularity isn't speculation. It's following a known thing to a conclusion. When AI becomes conscious and aware is not a matter of if, but when. As for AI's ability to probe space and come to understand it, that also is simply a matter of time, so to speak. And you? You're remarkable. I love your videos.

Music recommendation should be "Blackhole Sun - Soundgarden" :)

Please PLEASE do Kurzgesagt's reading of The Egg.

We are children when it comes to understanding the Universe. We are still at the Beginner level, just now looking into the deep past and discovering how quantum physics works. We have much to learn, and it’s the only reason I have for wanting to live forever.

Black Holes are by far some of the most magnificent and terrifying phenomenon in the universe.

I would like to investigate some black holes as well

I always thought a Blackhole was when all the atoms that made up the star get smooshed together until all the protons neutrons electrons ( I think those are the 3) become 1 with no space in-between them. That makes it infinitely dense, and that gravity is so strong that even light cant escape. and then there is the whole Time is a side effect of Gravity thing. So essentially a blackhole is just a really big magnet floating in space.

What do you think about the CERN? This has always been a concern for me haha but no it is a serious matter, oh boy i can't stop at this point.

PBS Space Time has a really good video about fuzz balls. black holes explained with string theory. Would highly recommend!

In science, Theory isn't a conditional statement like it is in day to day life. A theory is as close to truth as we can get.

Our universe may be a black hole. It exhibits a lot of the traits of one. Large enough for "stuff" to not be destroyed right away, can never leave because of the universe expanding (or are we falling in?), away from the surface of the black hole (Cosmic Microwave Background CMB) You'll have to look it up , interesting stuff. Place to start would be Holographic Universe stuff from Leonard Susskind. Brian Cox talks about it being the "running theory" right now.

The second g in kurzgesagt is not silent. So your pronunciation was correct. Although you pronounced the u as if it had an umlaut (ü). Since it has not the u is pronounced like the first u in kumquat.

Its somewhat contested, but I'm fairly sure that Phoenix A* is the largest black hole discovered to date. Although you'll likely also hear people say that Ton 618 is the biggest.

Love your content! AI is the great filter ahead of us. I think we will be unable to pass it.

currently the most massive one is thought to be around 100 billion solar masses, located inside the Phoenix Cluster. from wiki: "These models, as suggested by the paper, are indicative of a central black hole with estimated mass on the order of 100 billion M☉, possibly even exceeding this mass Such a high mass may place it into a proposed category of Stupendously Large Black Holes (SLABs)"

Ton-618 has been the largest black hole now for a while. Kurzgesagt has made a video about it

You should react to their video on the largest black hole in the universe