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NEW DISCOVERY About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!
Astrophysicists have discovered a black hole that for millions of years has been blasting vast particle beams in opposite directions across the sky. And has recently swiveled to point its one of these jets directly at us. Is this an...
PBS
How Black Holes Spin Space Time
If there’s one thing cooler than a black hole it’s a rotating black hole. Why? Because we can use them as futuristic power generators, galactic-scale bombs, and portals to other universes. Black holes are self-sustaining holes in the...
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How Black Holes Kill Galaxies
Black holes are really only dangerous if you get too close. Ha, who am I kidding. It turns out they may be responsible for ending star formation across the entire universe. When we first realized that black holes could have masses of...
PBS
First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole
How do you see the unseeable - how do you explore the inescapable? Our cleverest astronomers have figured out ways to catch light that skims the very edge of black holes. Let’s find out what they learned. A few weeks ago a story made the...
SciShow
How to Kill a Galaxy
Our Milky Way galaxy is alive and well, producing new stars all the time. But there’s another group of galaxies out there, populated only by venerable red dwarf stars - the young stars are nowhere to be seen. In effect, these galaxies...
SciShow
What If the Universe Isn't Uniform?
According to the cosmological principle, the universe is more or less the same in all directions. But what happens when we put this to the test?
PBS
Why Quasars are so Awesome
When Quasars were first discovered the amount of light pouring out of such a tiny dot in space seemed impossible. A hysterical flurry of hypothesizing followed: swarms of neutron stars, alien civilizations harnessing their entire...
SciShow
The Biggest Water Reservoir in Space
In the late 2000s, scientists looking deep into space discovered the largest known water reservoir in the universe inside a quasar, orbiting a supermassive black hole. Learn more about quasars and what this water can tell us about the...
SciShow
We Use Black Holes to Study Tectonic Plates
The ground under our feet is constantly moving, and to measure these movements, researchers have turned to an unlikely helper: quasars that are millions of light-years away.
TED Talks
Jedidah Isler: How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she's an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes. In a charming talk, she takes us trillions of kilometers from Earth to introduce us to...
SciShow
Dark Energy Could Rip the Universe Apart - SciShow News
There are a few ideas about how the universe will end, but a paper published last week suggests that dark energy might eventually rip everything apart!
SciShow
Blazars Are A Thing
Hank explains how quasars and blazars are both the same thing - just oriented differently in respect to us - and how that impacts the way we perceive them and how it also effects the ways we can study them.
SciShow
Why Scientists Tracked One Neutrino Across the Universe
Last week scientists announced that they’ve likely identified the very first astrophysical source of high-energy neutrinos.
SciShow
There’s a Birth Control for Stars
Black holes are already pretty extreme, but some stand out among their peers, driving cosmic engines that outshines the rest of the galaxy and even serving as birth control for stars!
SciShow
Hanny's Voorwerp: The Mystery Blue Blob
In 2007, Hanny van Arkel noticed a blue blob next to a galaxy. Eight years later, scientists are still trying to figure out how it got there.
SciShow
The Impossibly Huge Quasar Group
In 2013, astronomers reported that they'd found what was, at the time, the biggest thing in the known universe.
SciShow
The Invisible Gas That Gave Us Galaxies
More than half of all the matter in the universe is out in the dark, 'empty space.' Although it's basically invisible, the intergalactic medium has a lot to tell us about the stuff we can see.
Science Buddies
Classify Celestial Objects with Machine Learning: A Python Coding Tutorial
Create a boosted tree model to classify stars based on important characteristics.
Astrum
Quasar Spotted in the Milky Way!
Radio Astronomers discovered hundreds of Quasars hiding in our galaxy.
Astrum
Where Have All the Quasars Gone?
Supermassive black holes and their distribution in the universe.
Astrum
What Does an Exploding Black Hole Look Like?
Quasars, or extremely active black holes are the brightest objects in the universe. But aren't black holes meant to be invisible? Based on the Illustris Project simulation, we also look at radio-mode and quasar-mode feedback, seemingly...
Wonderscape
M to R: Navigating Planets, Stars, and Phenomena
This video details the exploration from M to R in the space alphabet adventure, highlighting Mars, Neptune, Orion, Pluto, quasars, and revolution. Alphabet in Outer Space part 4
Curated Video
Deducing Black Holes
Astrophysicist Scott Tremaine, Institute for Advanced Study, describes how our understanding of black holes has evolved from a time when Einstein didn't actually believe they existed to our present view that so-called "supermassive"...
TMW Media
Discovery with the ALMA Telescope: The front end and back end of the ALMA telescope
Does the light take a long time to reach earth? Does ALMA help scientists view objects close to the Earth like the sun? Do they need big computers to run the telescope? Discovery with the ALMA Telescope, Part 2