Imagine how awesome it would be to have a real black hole so close to us so we could study it :O :O :O

@DrBecky

4 жыл бұрын

I KNOW 😱😱

@LuisAldamiz

4 жыл бұрын

Dark Horizon mission 2050?

@VA7SL

4 жыл бұрын

Donald Trump is a huge dark vortex sucking in Democracy like a Black Hole. Close enough?

@phapnui

4 жыл бұрын

@@VA7SL Why bring a shrill, boorish specimen of the lower internet phyla into this?

@Lyle-xc9pg

4 жыл бұрын

Adymn Sani, what? no more on the edge than some of the commentators

Dibs on rights to use it as a power production reactor!

@ecophreak1

4 жыл бұрын

So I can look forward to 'what does a black hole taste like?' in a few decades then? 🤣

@manicrhymes9552

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah don't bring it to Earth

@dreams2xs

4 жыл бұрын

using it's hawking radiation, you could probably power your laptop but overall, it would suck.

@joangerez9720

4 жыл бұрын

Im a fan Cody!!

@reqq47

4 жыл бұрын

That's beginning to sounds some First Order stuff right there...

Stop everything, guys! Mercury is in Gatorade!

@therealpbristow

4 жыл бұрын

=:oD

What a hunger in Dr Becky's eyes when she thinks she may get a pet blackhole 😂

"Super small black hole" by Muse has a certain ring to it.

@duality4y

4 жыл бұрын

Super massive planet

Dr. Becky, I just wanted to say that your energy that you exhibit in your videos is contagious. Always enjoy watching, even the bloopers and the after comments. Keep up the great work.

Oh, I wish I had a telescoop. I'd be able to get ice cream without leaving my computer chair!

@martijnvanweele6204

4 жыл бұрын

As a Dutchman, I find that hilarious...

@mytube001

4 жыл бұрын

@@martijnvanweele6204 Haha, so that's how you spell that word, eh? :D

@martijnvanweele6204

4 жыл бұрын

@@mytube001 Yup XD

@SandsOfArrakis

4 жыл бұрын

@@mytube001 Indeed we spell telescope that way :D

@michellescantlebury9512

4 жыл бұрын

best space joke i heard ALL DAY!

I could listen to Dr. Becky all day. Passionate delivery. Makes the complicated simple! 100% love her videos! Fantastic work Doc.

I'm not going to use the timestamps, but I really appreciate that you do that. Other people on KZread don't and it drives me nuts when they end up talking about a topic I don't care about and want to get to the one I do care about.

@adm0iii

4 жыл бұрын

Same here. I think having time-stamps removes most of the frustration viewers feel in not knowing when the video gets to their particular "good part"; with the time-stamp, it's like, okay it's coming about that many minutes in, so I don't have to wonder or fret; just listen for a bit to some intro "almost as good parts".

@dougeagleton8814

4 жыл бұрын

Alex Ornelas wherevare these timestamps?

@adm0iii

4 жыл бұрын

Timestamps are in the description.

@jackielinde7568

4 жыл бұрын

You must really hate the gamer nexus news videos. At least he posts the topics on the left, and each story gets a blue progress bar to show how far into the story he goes. But, yeah, would be nice if more provided time stamps.

@all8273

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackielinde7568 nah that would be fine. I'm specifically talking about some of the "true" horror youtubers that would mix paranormal in with things that could actually be real, but they don't include any good way to know how far to skip to get to the next story that isn't paranormal.

My friend shows your videos to her 6th grade class without watching first, and tomorrow, those kids are gonna go bonkers at "bullshit." I love it.

@DrBecky

4 жыл бұрын

I definitely said “bullshirt” for all my fellow Good Place fans

My favourite bit of that paper is that their diagram of the black hole is actual size. Other than that I really love that they present something actually testable. It's not just an idea, it is a plan.

Saturn is my favorite planet as well- I discovered it Easter Morning 2016- with two of my little miniature poodle puppies playing under my feet and the legs of my telescope. It was a great accomplishment for me as I have no formal training whatsoever in astronomy- sort of a "hunt and peck" astronomer. My first observation of Saturn was in 2013 when I was at the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff Az. I told the astronomer there I didn't think I could ever do this- he said sure you can!! I just found M41 the other morning. Thanks for the great videos!!!

Discovered you on JMG’s Event Horizon channel and you were awesome! Subbed immediately and now you’re a favorite. Thanks for the great content!

@psykkomancz

4 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@Markle2k

4 жыл бұрын

Clearly, everybody in the same boat as you need to subscribe to the Sixty Symbols channel because that is where all of us who have been following this channel from the start came from. Dr.Becky came to everybody's attention when she scored the outreach fellowship over there. Sixty Symbols and the chemistry channel Periodic Videos were the nucleus of the whole enterprise that came out of Nottingham University under Brady Haran and team.

Dr. Becky A great episode!!! One of the best ever!! G

Top 10 Astronomy KZreadrs who've sworn

Love your videos Dr. Becky Very informative and interesting. Great work!

Great video! We've also been in a new (well, different) house for a month or so and are still surrounded by unopened boxes, so the "clothes in suitcases" bit at the end was also fun to see. Good luck with it all. I shall think of black holes while I'm trying to sort out the stuff in the garage: a nearby one to chuck stuff in would be quite handy.

Hey Becky - two things that confuse me about this. If they detected unaccounted for gravity lensing, then finding the object should not really be a problem should it? They know where the event occurred with high accuracy due to measuring the lensing event so wouldnt it be pretty straight forward from there? Look in different wavelengths at that spot and you would find it? With the black hole idea - Shouldnt we be able to detect the x-rays being released from the accretion of matter around it? Even if only small amount of matter was being accelerated and then emitting x-rays that should be visible, being fairly close in cosmological terms. What am i missing?

@stargazer7644

Жыл бұрын

You wonder why we haven’t observed and found a baseball sized object 500AU from the Sun?

DrBecky, you are a fabulous presenter. Highly energetic, easy to listen to, and explaining science that makes sense to the non-degreed - like me. Thank you.

I really like the length of the video, and appreciate all the work that goes into research and organising it to make it understandable for us. Hope to see you witu your own series on tv in the future. We need more science, and meaning. Scientists should be more visible in society. Some great images and graphics here.

Lovely to see your enthusiasm, cant wait the next wednesday

Great episode, wonderful stuff.🤩

You made me look up "pipped at the post". Darn you, Dr. Becky, for making me learn something while I'm learning something!

"What if Planet 10 Is a Primordial Black Hole?" - Me, the Pluto fan.

@StarkRG

4 жыл бұрын

In that case it would have to be more like planet 15 or 16

@AdamosDad

4 жыл бұрын

🤜🏼👍🏾👍🏻👍🏼👍🏻👍 👉🏼

@thorodinson292

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't it get its planet status back?

@marka.200

4 жыл бұрын

@Carlos Saraiva I thought it was because it's unknown AND supposed to be 10 times the mass of Earth (plus the 10th planet as a "bonus").

@marka.200

4 жыл бұрын

@Carlos Saraiva Gotcha. I agree wrt names.

Hi from Montreal and thanks for mentioning our awesome planetarium! Hard to miss: it’s right next to Olympic Stadium. 😎⭐️🍁❤️

I was reading an article regarding this planet 9 theory, clicked on your video first as I have bookmarked one more video of yours regarding how we calculate speed of light, I must say great job on this video given the complexities you have to explain. Thanks a lot. Love from India 🇮🇳

Such enthusiasm for space. Very cool.

I watch your show for a few reasons. First and foremost, you are a brilliant scientist. I don't understand everything you're talking about (my degree is in computer science, not astrophysics) but I add to my layman's understanding of the universe thanks to you. Second, you have insights and the ability to make them understandable to those of us who don't have advanced physics degrees. And, third, I love your sense of humor! Keep up the great work.

Very interesting. I like it straightforward with it as basically explained as possible.

Hey! Good job!!! My 13 yo daughter is finally getting interested in those stars! That's what got me interested at about 7, and even though I'm not an astrophysicist, there's nothing more suited to get the brain working than thinking about the vastness of space! :) Thank you!!!

LOL. Love the new "Breaking news" music segues! You are my favorite youtube online astrophysicist.

I love your enthusiasm, and how you feel about astrology. i also love to hear you ue four letter words!

@roberthogue5138

4 жыл бұрын

I hate autofill

Very cool video. Thanks Dr. Becky!

Your mentioning the Mercury transit reminded me to check for ISS transits of the sun near me, and there's one passing right over me on October 29th! I'll definitely have to try and get a shot of it.

Love your passion. Keep it up.

I love the "on the fly" corrections!!!! I follow physics very close but I didn't make the connection between the two studies. You are awesome.

"the solar system's pet black hole." You made me laugh!

@ollieolliver2693

4 жыл бұрын

Do not try to pet it.

Thanks for the explanation. This really is an interesting idea. when people think of black holes they imagine all consuming monsters and that in our own solar system.. well that could sound a bit scary. But i like the term 'our own pet black hole' sounds kind of cute :-)

Great! As soon as I heard the primordial black hole idea, I was hoping you'd cover it.

@turkosicsaba

4 жыл бұрын

I don't understand why this hypothesis is being given so much attention. The old adage in medicine is "when you hear hooves, think horse, not zebra". In this case, it is more likely that there is a massive, distant low-albedo planet out there than a tiny black hole. Yes, it's an exciting idea, but so are out of body experiences which actually turn out to be hypnagogic sleep paralysis. Again, when you hear hooves, think horse, not zebra!

@essaboselin5252

4 жыл бұрын

As Dr. Becky mentioned, the odds of the gravitational source being a primordial black hole or a captured planet work out to be essentially the same. A captured planet may be more horsey, but that doesn't mean the answer can't be stripey. If nothing else, a primordial black hole should be easier to "look" for with current available technology. (But I doubt Dr. Becky will be boarding a spaceship with her "I (heart) black holes" flag to visit it in this lifetime.)

@essaboselin5252

4 жыл бұрын

Forgot to add: And a PBH would be explain the gravitational microlensing.

Gotta love how enthusiastic Dr. Becky is when talking about the primordial solar system, um I meant the primordial universe, I think? Great video as usual................ :)

Nice channel doc, keep it up!

Your eyes look fantastic from this angle / lighting

Your enthusiasm is very contagious Dr Becky. I really wanted to study astronomy and cosmology but unfortunately the University I attended cancelled that course for various economic reasons, they do however still have and use their observatory that has a beautiful 26 inch telescope and thankfully Sydney ( Australia) does not have real bad light pollution. for now most of my star gazing is done with a pair of 25x100 binoculars and since I do a lot of remote travel I get sky's that have no light or even much atmospheric pollution, when you can read a newspaper by star light you know you have a great sky. It even gives me a slight vertigo at times. I also think that planet 9 could be some sort of black hole, it just makes sense but I think it will be a long time before anyone actually finds it and I think it will be by accident when a space ship slams into it... oops.

That was extremely informative, well done . Never knew that black holes had a size limit and spat stuff back out, thought they just got bigger and bigger with all that extra mass and thought the universe would all be eaten up by a bigger and bigger one [not this week though] and that would be the means of the next Big Bang [not holding my breath for that though] a Higgs Boson? Mind boggling it seems that Planet 9/ Black Hole is 46,500,000,000 miles from the sun!!! That is quite a long walk!! Have worked out how to confirm whether it is a Black Hole or not, send Wallace and Grommit in their space ship, for that seems to go anywhere instantly.

Excellent video and subject matter! Especially the Primordial Black Hole theory. It makes sense and answers so many questions. Plus, it would be pretty cool to have one close enough to study! I wonder how far would one have to remain from the event horizon and still be able to study it close enough to get all we can about it? P.S. I love watching the "bloopers" after the video. I have to admit that most scientists are rather bland. You are not! I love your enthusiasm! Rock On, Dr. Becky!

I love your videos. You're incredibly knowledgeable yet you make it accessible to the laymen like me. Not to mention that you are incredibly cute and very passionate about your subjects which make you a delight to watch.

6:22 I met Dr Mather in Hawaii 3 years ago. we sat on a bench by the sea discussing Webb and the stars for an hour.

You are Awesome, thank you for your content

It does seem rather odd that any old space rock gets moon status due to a quirk of its location, but we're so precious about what counts as a planet because we don't want there to be too many of them.

Thank you for keeping it real finally someone no afraid to tell you like it is thank you for all of the great videos you’re making this journey of learning about astrophysics etc so much easier and much more fun, space on. Also u might want to explain to the viewers that BH aren’t really that dangerous that the gravity is no different from planet mass BH to planets just a thought because I know I always thought they ate up everything lol.

Hey, I have bought a binocular with 10-22x50, what can I watch with them ? Would you kindly let me know?

"MUSE" and "supermassive black hole" in the same segment, nice!

Thank you again!

"Moony McSaturnface" LMAO!

@liama23

4 жыл бұрын

At that point i fell in love with her. :D

Very interesting and informative!

Nice work! Any ideas about the distribution of primordial black holes in the galaxy?

@RedRocket4000

4 жыл бұрын

Hawking Radiation Idea makes any still existing a question assuming Hawking radiation exists.

When you used your plant to illustrate the size of the (proposed) primordial black hole, are you saying that it is actually SUCKulents in space?

@GuardianOfRlyeh

4 жыл бұрын

made my day :D

@405bikelifeallin5

4 жыл бұрын

dad jokes 101. lmao

Totally off topic, but I was wondering what watch you wear?

I love how every video is like sitting down and having a conversation with a friend. A smart friend, ok, a smarter friend than I have, but still.

Damk becky, you're breaking my poor head with all this info

Could I use a pinhole viewer? IE: a biggish box with a pinhole and a sheet of white paper on the opposite inside surface of the box ? Will it have enough detail to image mercury ?

Oh My Universe! love it!

You have such a talent for science communication.

@DrBecky

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

I was absolutely thinking Moony McMoonface and then you went out and said Moony McSaturnface and I died

Moony Mac Saturn face, Dr Becky you are a laugh riot. You made my day.

Could you post something on the MUSE technology

Awesome video keep doing that. You've got the right "i-dear" lol

Your fanbase might be small, but we really love you. The way you show your feelings and biases makes you more credible and easier to trust. I wish you where my little sister.

Some exciting stuff!! Fred

Do you have a patreon

Wonder if a reasonably proximate black hole would help with the halo drive...a bit? I'm glad that it has stopped raining here in Northampton for a couple of days, as it is now possible for me to look at my favourite bits of the night sky when I get up in the morning (very early - about 3.15 a.m, but 4:15 a.m in Ollish time, which is the time that we, the Ollish, go by). I like seeing Cassiopeia, the Pleiades and Orion's belt particularly. It took me a while when I was in New Zealand many years ago to notice that the horsehead nebula was above instead of below where it appears here. Looking forward to the suspected extrasolar comet in early December - dunno if it'll be easy to see without a telescope, but am looking forward to more spectral analysis of it. It would also be awesome if the terrascope would one day be testable...in the meanwhile, looking forward to the James Webb telescope getting deployed. They can take their time with that, on account of the difficulty of servicing it where it will be deployed, and also the difficulty of deploying it. I can also assert that I first heard of your wonderful channel on John Michael Godier's Event Horizon show.

If it is a primordial black hole, Hawking's suggestion of using small black holes to solve our power problems becomes possible radically sooner. It's bigger than what he suggested which might complicate things but likely not as complicated as creating your own from scratch.

Could you possibly be near pdx so we can see you speak?

Dr. Becky - A serious question: What do optical telescopes use in their sensors? I'd assume that the standard RGB sensors we think of in cameras would destroy too much of the intermediate wavelengths to be useful, so how do they capture the full spectrum of all the incoming light for every "pixel" in the image?

@michaelsommers2356

4 жыл бұрын

Images are made with CCDs. Filters are used to look at specific bands of color. Images made with several different filters can be combined to get "full color". Spectrographs split the light up so that different colors go to different locations on the detector; the color information comes from the intensities at the different locations.

I had already heard about this paper, but this explanation was WAY better and more detailed. Dr. Becky really is the best! Also, come on, there's 80+ moons. At least ONE of them can be Moony McSaturnFace.

You made me laugh 😂 good video!😀

*_...also, if the mass hole is in retrograde orbit, then its time-of-passing-effect is reduced ergo its mass may be 25× greater than your/their estimate; I called it, 'Pluton', in 1984..._*

@dr becky....Is it possible to have a moon around a moon?

Nice analogy of the race track and even better expletive!! Lol

can you calculate Gaia data backwards to see which other star was likely to have visited our system in the past?

Thank you for the discussion on the possible primordial black hole! At 14:50 you state that Neptune's orbit is very elliptical (a high eccentricity). My books state the opposite, that Neptune's eccentricity (0.011) is about the same as Earth's (0.016). Were you thinking of Pluto and conflating the two? Nevertheless, this was a great video!

Thank you Dr. Becky for this delicious morsel of mind candy, really enjoy your videos. Also, what type of camera are you using?, I could see your aura (around your head).

@mawkernewek

4 жыл бұрын

actually I suddenly noticed this when you started talking about the acreeted dark matter around the hypothesised primordial black hole

@Miss_Atlantis

3 жыл бұрын

Hello ! :) Isn't it her shadow ?

description of horoscopes.. clicked like !

That intro, subscribed in 2 sec.

Thanks! You got 11 🌟 out of 10 for this.

as an isaac arthur fan, i can't help but imagine how a planetary mass black hole could spur development of the outer outer system. it could be a huge source of energy, eventually we could even build a shell around it and turn it into an artificial planet.

Protons per teaspoon is my new favorite unit of measure.

Can we tell the distance of the object from us that is causing the microlensing effect?

That was sooooo good. Clickbait worth clicking. Thanks, Becky.

"Solar System's Pet Black Hole!" 😅 Sun : ThugLife Black hole: Left the chat.

Dr. Becky, you mentioned that there's some disturbance on Kuiper belt objects from the proposed planet 9, but Scholz's star rumbled things in the Oort cloud when it had its flyby 70kya. Could it have left some of its own orbiting detritus with us, and/or taken any Oort cloud objects with it? Could there be other consequences of extrasolar visitors passing through our system? I know it's not black holes, but in its own way still fascinating! :) Thank you for sharing and explaining what may be the only science paper with a question for its title that may have a 'yes' answer!

I loved it when you called 'bullshit' lol...casual astrophysics.

#WeatherRantOn What would I need a telescope with a solar filter for? There hasn’t been a cloudless sky since the effing heatwave in July! #WeatherRantOff Thanks for another great episode again, Becky. I learned stuff again! 👍🎉

Am I right to suppose there isn’t enough mass in the Kuiper belt to make a black hole, of this proposed size, dangerous, should it start feeding?

What causes the limit for the rate you can feed a black hole?

Dr. Becky, you don't know how many times I've lost my keys because I was too busy watching Mercury going into retrograde instead of paying attention to what I was doing. Also, pretty sure the newspaper article was either satire or irony. Also, it sounds like a story that The Onion would publish.

What does Uranus is in opposition mean?

Those eyes. Wow

Hi Doctor B. Thank you, for your work, Just going through the book atm. Magic! You have revitalized my childhood fascination with black holes! I have a couple of dumb questions. Maybe you would entertain them? here goes... Q1: Theoretically, If we could make a Harpoon long enough to shoot into a black hole from outside of the Event horizon and tether it to say a Planet, moon, or space station. could we use the gravity of a black hole to tow objects through space? . Q2: If we could have a satellite in a stationary position or indeed in a geostationary orbit around a black hole could we somehow harness the emitted Hawkins Radiation and use it to power stuff? Thx and excuse my ignorance

Surely the definition of "moon" will have to be examined. "Dwarf moons" for those which are not spherical?

@colinp2238

4 жыл бұрын

Is that small people dropping their pants?

@absalomdraconis

4 жыл бұрын

The definition of planet nedds such a rework as well. Mercury should not be in the same category as Venus, Earth, and Mars, abd Venus, Earth, and Mars don't belong in the same category as the gas giants.

@StarkRG

4 жыл бұрын

@@absalomdraconis Why do you say that? Mercury is solid, so are the other three.

@louiscypher4186

4 жыл бұрын

@@absalomdraconis Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are categorized as terrestrial worlds. Jupiter and Saturn are Categorized as gas giants and Uranus and Neptune are categorized as Ice Giants. That's three different categories and the definitions for them work just fine. How do you propose to "rework" these categories and why?

@yakarotsennin3115

4 жыл бұрын

Jared Maddox I think the definition of planet needs to be more precise, yet I don’t think the classification for Mercury, Venus, Earth or Mars isn’t accurate enough. I mean, terrestrial describes them pretty well, even if it’s super broad. Of course there are more specific names though they aren’t well defined. Terrestrial planets with more mass than Earth yet less massive than Neptune are considered Super Earths. Planets less massive than Earth and Venus are considered Sub-Earth. Planets with less mass than Neptune but substantially more mass than Super Earth’s are called Sub-Neptune. Now I do agree that they could work on giving a more defined mass limit to these categories, but that’s difficult because we don’t have enough data on Super Earths or Sub-Neptune’s considering they aren’t in our Solar System.