Video ID: PbMCqh36K1U
YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbMCqh36K1U
Added At: 13-06-25 21:18:11
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Sentiment: Positive
Categories: Science
Tags: black hole, quasar, astronomy, space, science discovery
Summary
Scientists discovered the fastest growing black hole, which eats the equivalent of our sun daily. It's bright due to an accretion disc emitting energy as light. This quasar is 500 trillion times brighter than our sun and the brightest in the universe.
Transcript
scientists just discovered the fastest growing black hole ever. this thing eats the equivalent of our sun every single day but if it's a black hole... an object so massive that even light can't escape its pull... why is it so bright? here's how this works: this black hole is so massive that there's literally a backlog of stuff waiting to fall into it that backlog swirling around is called an accretion disc and inside that accretion disc all of that stuff is smashing into each other and it's emitting energy that we see as light. this whole swirling energy emitting situation is called a quasar and this particular quasar is emitting so much energy that it's not only the fastest growing black hole we've ever found it is the brightest thing we've found in the known universe. it's 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. it's so crazy. the universe is amazing and we're learning new things all the time. if you like optimistic science and text stories follow for more...