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Instructional Video12:02
Curated Video

Black Holes

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve covered a lot of incredible stuff, but this week we’re talking about the weirdest objects in space: BLACK HOLES. Stellar mass black holes form when a very massive star dies, and its core collapses. The core has to be more than...
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Instructional Video11:10
Curated Video

The Real Science of the EHT Black Hole

12th - Higher Ed
So, how do you take a picture of a black hole? The beast in question is the supermassive black hole in the center of this – the M87 elliptical galaxy. It has an estimated mass of several billion times that of the Sun, which gives it an...
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Instructional Video2:42
MinutePhysics

Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarfs (Collab. w/ MinuteEarth)

12th - Higher Ed
This video is about the differences between the corpses or final degenerate dense star forms that dead stars take: black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs. The main distinguishing features between them are the mass cutoffs...
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Instructional Video6:30
Curated Video

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.
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Instructional Video31:47
Curated Video

Black Holes: The Hungriest Things in the Universe | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
If you thought a hot dog eating contest was impressive to complete, imagine if a black hole entered it! They eat up everything around them, including stars! But they’re not just gluttonous blobs of the universe. Like all things in space,...
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Instructional Video5:32
SciShow

Do Black Holes Have Quantum Hair?

12th - Higher Ed
We don’t know what happens to stuff when it gets sucked into a black hole, but in the same instance, we don’t know what happens to the black hole. There’s a possibility that sucked up stuff might actually give the black hole “quantum hair”.
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Instructional Video11:01
Curated Video

How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer

12th - Higher Ed
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...
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Instructional Video4:01
MinutePhysics

The Black Hole Tipping Point

12th - Higher Ed
This video is about the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole, (its "event horizon"), and how much mass and density is required to reach the point of no return where an object like a star, neutron star, red giant, etc will collapse into a...
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Instructional Video5:30
Curated Video

How We Learned Black Holes Actually Exist | 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

12th - Higher Ed
Did you know Einstein never thought we’d find actual black holes in space? It took decades of research to show black holes are physically possible, and some of the scientists behind that research were honored this year with the Nobel...
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Instructional Video6:55
Curated Video

How To See a Black Hole with a Planet-Sized Telescope | STELLAR

12th - Higher Ed
It took about a century for black holes to go from impossible, to theoretical, to real. And it was just this year, in 2019, when we finally saw the first picture of a black hole! But how to you take a photo of something so massively...
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Instructional Video6:25
SciShow

What Shape Are Black Holes? Yes.

12th - Higher Ed
What shape is the event horizon of a black hole? Well, the answer to that question changes if our universe is hiding an extra dimension (or more). Black holes could come in an infinite number of shapes — including a precisely spinning...
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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...
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Instructional Video6:11
Curated Video

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!
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Instructional Video16:19
TED Talks

TED: The hunt for a supermassive black hole | Andrea Ghez

12th - Higher Ed
With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe's most mysterious objects: black holes. She shares evidence that a supermassive black hole may...
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Instructional Video5:00
Curated Video

A Runaway Supermassive Black Hole

12th - Higher Ed
Black holes are a wondrous force of the universe! Hank explains how we found a supermassive rogue black hole & how DNA behaves in space!
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Instructional Video2:27
SciShow

If the Sun Became a Black Hole Would Earth Fall In

12th - Higher Ed
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.
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Instructional Video5:30
Curated Video

3 Ridiculously Extreme Black Holes

12th - Higher Ed
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.
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Instructional Video5:19
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Could we harness the power of a black hole? | Fabio Pacucci

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
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Instructional Video5:20
MinutePhysics

The Unreasonable Efficiency of Black Holes

12th - Higher Ed
This video is about how efficient various reactions are at converting mass to energy (as we know from the Einstein mass-energy equivalence of E=mc^2). Antimatter is very efficient but it is not naturally-occurring. Chemical reactions...
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Instructional Video5:15
Curated Video

How To X-Ray A Black Hole

12th - Higher Ed
Black holes are everywhere, including at the center of our galaxy. But because they’re invisible they’re quite difficult to study. Looking at the disks of material surrounding them, however, can give us tons of clues about how they...
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Instructional Video1:42
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?
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Instructional Video11:36
Curated Video

The Black Hole Information Paradox

12th - Higher Ed
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...
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Instructional Video4:04
SciShow

How Big Can Black Holes Grow?

12th - Higher Ed
Black Holes are known for consuming everything that falls into them, but is there a point where these galactic devourers can't stomach anymore?
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Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

A Strangely Cool Supermassive Black Hole!

12th - Higher Ed
In this week's news we discover that Tatooine has got nothing on HD 131399Ab's wide orbit, and there's a some really cool jets coming out of a supermassive black hole.

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