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2022-12-14: How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas?

  • 19:30: The limit for the Milky Way’s black hole is around 100-billion times brighter than the Sun.

2022-05-25: The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy

  • 00:00: ... laughed out loud - this wasn’t water vapour  - this was lunch - the Milky Way’s lunch.   Find a dark night in the southern hemisphere  ...
  • 01:41: ... what about our home galaxy? It would be nice  if we could learn the Milky Way’s true history   and final fate. And, in fact, we can. ...
  • 02:19: ... also suffuses the disk and halo   and constitutes 80% of the Milky Way’s mass.The entire galaxy is beautiful and intricately   ...
  • 04:41: ... Milky Way disk or through the halo by now. Teasing  out the Milky Way’s history is sometimes called   stellar archaeology. Perhaps ...
  • 06:57: ... event by identifying star from this devoured   galaxy in the Milky Way’s halo. The “Enceladus”  part is for the Greek titan of that name, ...
  • 09:11: ... other  kicked up the orbits of many of the stars in   the Milky Way’s original thin disk to create  the thick disk. Meanwhile, the fresh ...
  • 09:42: ... the galaxy multiple times. In the end  it disperses into the Milky Way’s ...
  • 10:34: ... every  billion years or so when it punches through the   Milky Way’s disk its gravity hits like a  hammer. Actually, more like a drum ...
  • 12:11: ... prepares to have its lunch and second biggest   meal yet. The Milky Way’s two brightest satellite  galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic ...
  • 13:17: ... of the Milky Way’s past mergers have been  ‘minor’, meaning that the Milky Way was ...
  • 13:54: ... as we gobble up any galaxies foolish enough to stray into the Milky Way’s little patch of space ...
  • 10:34: ... every  billion years or so when it punches through the   Milky Way’s disk its gravity hits like a  hammer. Actually, more like a drum ...
  • 06:57: ... event by identifying star from this devoured   galaxy in the Milky Way’s halo. The “Enceladus”  part is for the Greek titan of that name, ...
  • 09:42: ... the galaxy multiple times. In the end  it disperses into the Milky Way’s halo. ...
  • 04:41: ... Milky Way disk or through the halo by now. Teasing  out the Milky Way’s history is sometimes called   stellar archaeology. Perhaps galactic ...
  • 00:00: ... laughed out loud - this wasn’t water vapour  - this was lunch - the Milky Way’s lunch.   Find a dark night in the southern hemisphere  and you’ll see too: ...
  • 02:19: ... also suffuses the disk and halo   and constitutes 80% of the Milky Way’s mass.The entire galaxy is beautiful and intricately   structured. Weird ...
  • 09:11: ... other  kicked up the orbits of many of the stars in   the Milky Way’s original thin disk to create  the thick disk. Meanwhile, the fresh ...
  • 01:41: ... what about our home galaxy? It would be nice  if we could learn the Milky Way’s true history   and final fate. And, in fact, we can. Since  ...

2022-05-18: What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?

  • 03:40: ... larger nebula, probably in one of  the great spiral arms of the Milky Way’s disk.   While most of the cloud ended up in the ...
  • 08:01: ... pond, forming a growing cluster that would become  the Milky Way’s bulge. As the galactic bulge grew,   it was wracked by further ...
  • 11:12: ... on the Milky Way’s formation history, our  starting intuition seems right: the Sun and ...
  • 08:01: ... pond, forming a growing cluster that would become  the Milky Way’s bulge. As the galactic bulge grew,   it was wracked by further waves ...
  • 03:40: ... larger nebula, probably in one of  the great spiral arms of the Milky Way’s disk.   While most of the cloud ended up in the shrinking  spheroid that ...
  • 11:12: ... on the Milky Way’s formation history, our  starting intuition seems right: the Sun and ...

2021-04-13: What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?

  • 01:39: ... in our galaxy it forms a vast halo around twice the diameter of the Milky Way’s spiral disk, where most of the stars are ...

2020-10-27: How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time

  • 00:00: ... it was shared by the astronomers who revealed  to us the Milky Way’s central black hole and by Roger Penrose, who proved that in ...
  • 12:11: ... and Reinhard Genzel,   who proved to us the existence of the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole by monitoring the   crazy orbits of ...

2020-05-04: How We Know The Universe is Ancient

  • 01:35: ... blobs of gas in the Milky Way, or vast, distant groups of stars - other “Milky Ways”, or as Immanuel Kant called them, island universes. We now call them ...

2020-04-14: Was the Milky Way a Quasar?

  • 11:41: ... explanations in both cases — some combination of accretion onto the Milky Way’s central black hole and a flurry of star formation egging each other ...

2020-01-13: How To Capture Black Holes

  • 02:50: ... prediction for some time, but we’ve recently found evidence of the Milky Way’s black hole swarm - and yeah, we covered that in a previous ...

2019-07-25: Deciphering The Vast Scale of the Universe

  • 02:05: ... were zipping away from us so quickly that they would surely escape the Milky Way’s gravitational ...

2018-10-25: Will We Ever Find Alien Life?

  • 09:17: ... bottleneck, or colloquially, a great filter that seriously limits the Milky Way's production of highly visible galactic ...

2018-09-12: How Much Information is in the Universe?

  • 08:04: So the Milky Way's black hole has as much entropy and hidden information as all of the matter and radiation in the entire rest of the universe.

2018-04-25: Black Hole Swarms

  • 04:34: ... tens of thousands of black holes in the central few light years of the Milky Way's ...

2017-12-20: Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst

  • 01:01: ... what about the Milky Way's inevitable collision with Andromeda, or the final burning out of the ...

2017-01-04: How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer

  • 02:49: The Event Horizon Telescope is right now in the process of mapping space around the Milky Way's Sag A star black hole.
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