Instructional Video3:33
SciShow

Vantablack: The Darkest Material Ever Made

12th - Higher Ed
Today we're talking about the blackest material ever created!
Instructional Video17:39
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: Eons Edition!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank Green presides over this battle between the other two hosts of Eons. They know dinosaurs, but how much do they really know about industrial grease?
Instructional Video1:52
MinutePhysics

What are Years... and the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole!

12th - Higher Ed
It's leap year time... so what are years, anyway? And what do they have to do with the supermassive black hole in the core of the milky way?
Instructional Video4:19
TED Talks

Jedidah Isler: How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video4:34
SciShow

Has Stephen Hawking Solved a Black Hole Paradox?

12th - Higher Ed
Stephen Hawking recently announced that he'd come up with an answer to one of the biggest questions in physics. But it'll probably be a while before we know exactly what it is.
Instructional Video6:30
SciShow

Planets Could Form Around Black Holes! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week in space. Scientists have discovered a black hole that could possibly everything we know about black holes, and also, evidence that planets, yes planets, could form around super massive black holes.
Instructional Video6:11
SciShow

Planet 9 Could Be a Black Hole! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Two scientists have proposed that Planet Nine could actually be a black hole, and a handful of telescopes observed a distant black hole absolutely destroying a star!
Instructional Video11:29
TED Talks

Sheperd Doeleman: Inside the black hole image that made history

12th - Higher Ed
At the center of a galaxy more than 55 million light-years away, there's a supermassive black hole with the mass of several billion suns. And now, for the first time ever, we can see it. Astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, head of the Event...
Instructional Video12:51
TED Talks

TED: How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman

12th - Higher Ed
At the heart of the Milky Way, there's a supermassive black hole that feeds off a spinning disk of hot gas, sucking up anything that ventures too close -- even light. We can't see it, but its event horizon casts a shadow, and an image of...
Instructional Video2:40
MinutePhysics

Common Physics Misconceptions

12th - Higher Ed
What if you thought the earth was flat? And then you found out it isn't?
Instructional Video10:22
PBS

Singularities Explained

12th - Higher Ed
Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards explains exactly what singularities are and how they exist right under our noses.
Instructional Video4:22
SciShow

What Movies Get Wrong About Space

12th - Higher Ed
Hollywood can be pretty negligent about physics and astronomy, even in really good movies, but there are a few specific misconceptions that pop up again and again.
Instructional Video5:57
SciShow

The Deepest Sound in the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to X-ray telescopes, scientists in the 1970s found the first real evidence that black holes actually existed, and astronomer Andrew Fabian has used X-ray research to unlock incredible mysteries ever since, including a giant sound...
Instructional Video12:16
SciShow

How Long Can Humans Outrun Extinction?

12th - Higher Ed
In a few million years, we’re going to have to leave Earth if we want to survive. But how long can we actually outrun extinction before the universe becomes uninhabitable to us?
Instructional Video4:42
SciShow

How to Tilt a Black Hole

12th - Higher Ed
It seems the more we learn about black holes, the more there is to find out. In this case, what in the universe could have put one on its side?
Instructional Video5:23
SciShow

Could Wormholes Really Exist?

12th - Higher Ed
If wormholes aren't just convenient plot devices for science fiction writers, they're still much weirder than anything we could make up.
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow

An Impossible Black Hole, and Finally Meeting Ceres

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space takes you to a distant, ancient black hole that … really shouldn’t be, and psyches you up for the Dawn spacecraft’s final approach to Ceres!
Instructional Video5:57
SciShow

The Brightest, Biggest Space News of 2019!

12th - Higher Ed
This has been another really good year for exploring the universe. This is our annual superlatives episode, so let’s take a look at the some of the coolest breakthroughs of 2019.
Instructional Video5:54
SciShow

Could Naked Singularities Exist?

12th - Higher Ed
A naked singularity is something that should be a black hole, but it’s neither black nor a hole. If they exist, they’ll rewrite physics as we know it.
Instructional Video29:42
TED Talks

TED: 10 ways the world could end | Stephen Petranek

12th - Higher Ed
How might the human race end? Stephen Petranek lays out 10 terrible options and the science behind them. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle collider gone wild?
Instructional Video11:05
SciShow

Why Do People Say We've Reached the End of Physics?

12th - Higher Ed
Our fundamental picture of the universe seems pretty nearly complete these days, to the point that some people are suggesting that we’ve arrived at some version of “the end of physics.” And sure, physics is at a turning point, but it...
Instructional Video3:47
SciShow

Secret' Space Plane, and Curiosity's New Rock

12th - Higher Ed
Caitlin delivers the latest developments from around the universe, including Curiosity's latest drill, the low-down on that "secret" space plane, and the dimmest galaxy ever detected.
Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

Space Superlatives of 2015!

12th - Higher Ed
Let's talk about some of the awesome stuff that happened in 2015! Caitlin Hofmeister tells us all about some pretty nifty black holes and the biggest rocket created by NASA.
Instructional Video2:49
SciShow

Blazars Are A Thing

12th - Higher Ed
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.