TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Could we harness the power of a black hole? | Fabio Pacucci
Imagine a distant future when humans reach beyond Earth, forge cities on planets thousands of light-years away, and maintain a galactic web of trade and transport. What would it take to make that leap? And where would we get enough...
PBS
How to Build a Blackhole
Black holes have mystified physicists for decades, but with the help of quantum mechanics, we are beginning to make serious progress in understanding these strange objects. This week on Space Time, Matt dives deeper into the physical...
MinutePhysics
How We Know Black Holes Exist
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video. This video is about the astronomical amount of astronomical evidence for black holes, ranging from x-ray binaries with...
SciShow
5 Baffling Mysteries About the Universe
At the beginning of the 20th century, many scientists thought that we had learned all there was to know about physics. The problem is, the better we get at measuring things and building models of our universe, the more we discover that...
SciShow
The Largest Electrical Current in the Universe
The information contained in this video may shock you!
PBS
The Black Hole Information Paradox
Black holes are the result of absolute gravitational collapse of a massive body: a point of hypothetical infinite density surrounded by an event horizon. At that horizon time is frozen and the fabric of space itself cascades inwards at...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Fabio Pacucci: Can a black hole be destroyed?
Black holes are among the most destructive objects in the universe. Anything that gets too close to a black hole, be it an asteroid, planet, or star, risks being torn apart by its extreme gravitational field. By some accounts, the...
SciShow
7 Mysteries Science Hasn't Solved
Even science can't yet explain these 7 extremely cool, weird phenomena in the universe, despite decades or even centuries of research. Chapters BALL LIGHTNING 1:09 3:07 SONIC BOOM SKYQUAKES 3:13 FAST RADIO BURSTS 4:21 Actinomycetes 6:42...
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How Much Information is in the Universe?
Billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, each with .... rather a lot of particles in them. And then there's dark matter, black holes, planets, and the particles and radiation in between the stars and galaxies. But.... is the...
PBS
How Will the Universe End?
We live in an unusual age - the age when the stars still shine. We should count ourselves lucky - nearly all of future history will be dark. But events will still unfold in that long, cooling darkness, and civilizations may endure. So...
SciShow
3 Ways to Slingshot a Star
The star-mapping satellite Gaia has found more than 20 stars speeding across the Milky Way toward intergalactic space. There are just a few things that can slingshot a star out of a galaxy and all of them take some extreme gravitational...
PBS
The Black Hole Entropy Enigma
Black Holes should have no entropy, but they in fact hold most of the entropy in the universe. Let's figure this out.
PBS
How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer
Quasars, X-ray Binaries and Supermassive voids at the center of our galaxies .... black holes take many forms. In this episode Matt tells us what these different types of black holes are and how scientists are using VLBI, Very Long...
SciShow
Nuclear Pasta May Be the Strongest Material Ever - SciShow News
There is some super weird, noodley stuff inside neutron stars and scientists have found evidence that black holes can have strange geometries.
SciShow
Extreme Hypothetical Stars
You might think we've already found every kind of star by now, but astronomers think there are more that should hypothetically exist!
SciShow
From Thunderstorms to Black Holes: 4 Natural Particle Accelerators
We've been making particle accelerators for more than a century and have accelerated particles to more than 99.9999% the speed of light. But our accelerators are nothing compared to some of the ones we've found in nature!
SciShow
What Saturn’s Rings Tell Us About Its Soupy Core
The insides of the our gas giant friend, Saturn, might be less of a mystery now that we’ve figured out how to use its rings to indicate its internal makeup. And the light emitted from some very old, very hungry black holes could be...
PBS
Do Events Inside Black Holes Happen?
Black holes! From Stephen Hawking to Interstellar, black holes are mammoths in the world of science AND sci-fi. But what exactly IS a black hole? Do events happen inside black holes? Are black holes really a hole? Are black holes really...
TED Talks
Erika Pinheiro: What's really happening at the US-Mexico border -- and how we can do better
At the US-Mexico border, policies of prolonged detention and family separation have made seeking asylum in the United States difficult and dangerous. In this raw and heartfelt talk, immigration attorney Erika Pinheiro offers a glimpse...
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White Holes
Lurking in the depths of the mathematics of Einstein's general relativity is an object even stranger than the mysterious black hole. In fact it's the black hole's mirror twin, the white hole. Some even think that these could be the...
SciShow
If the Sun Became a Black Hole Would Earth Fall In
If our sun turned into a black hole, you might think our solar system would be doomed, but in reality that's just not how black holes work.
SciShow
3 Ridiculously Extreme Black Holes
Black holes are some of the most extreme astronomical objects out there, but there are some that really standout. Let's look at black holes that grow larger, consume more, and spin faster than the rest.
SciShow
This Planet Used to Be the Core of a Gas Giant? | SciShow News
Scientists may have found the light from two merging black holes, and a gas giant, without the gas.
SciShow
This Planet Survived the Death of its Star
When stars die, they tend to take everything around them with them. But new evidence appears to show a planet orbiting a white dwarf, and we’re not sure how it survived! Plus, experiments designed to detect dark matter might be capable...