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	2022-12-14: How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas? 19:09: Quasars or “active galactic nuclei” glow from the heat energy of matter being ripped to shreds as it spirals towards a supermassive black hole.
	2022-11-23: How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos 08:08: It’s a beautiful spiral galaxy 47 million light years away.
	2022-06-01: What If Physics IS NOT Describing Reality? 13:41: ... higher orbits while its own orbit decays. In this   way it’ll spiral towards the center and eventually  merge with our own supermassive ... 14:22: ... regions as it orbits the galaxy. It’ll be born in  a spiral arm probably, and then move in and out of spiral   arms every ...
	2022-05-25: The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy 00:00: ... of the large and small magellanic clouds in  their slow death spiral towards the Milky Way.   My colleague needn’t have worried - ... 02:19: ... Milky Way is a pretty typical barred  spiral galaxy. Our sun is in the disk,   on a minor outcropping of ... 03:22: ... violent convulsions settled into  the density waves that we see as spiral arms. The   new spiral galaxies continued to gobble up  ... 08:29: ... above and below its more slender counterpart.   Not all spiral galaxies have a thick disk, which  suggests something special ... 13:17: ... This is a major merger,   because Andromeda is a full-blown spiral galaxy  in its own right. In fact it’s around twice as   ... 03:22: ... violent convulsions settled into  the density waves that we see as spiral arms. The   new spiral galaxies continued to gobble up  wispy ... 08:29: ... above and below its more slender counterpart.   Not all spiral galaxies have a thick disk, which  suggests something special happened to ... 03:22: ... the density waves that we see as spiral arms. The   new spiral galaxies continued to gobble up  wispy irregular galaxies to grow that ... 02:19: ... Milky Way is a pretty typical barred  spiral galaxy. Our sun is in the disk,   on a minor outcropping of one of the ... 13:17: ... This is a major merger,   because Andromeda is a full-blown spiral galaxy  in its own right. In fact it’s around twice as   massive as ... 02:19: ... Our sun is in the disk,   on a minor outcropping of one of the spiral  arms. It orbits in the same direction as all the   disk stars ... 07:58: ... is the main star   factory of the Milky way. It’s home to the spiral  arms and the big, bright star forming clouds   and our sun. We ... 02:19: ... Our sun is in the disk,   on a minor outcropping of one of the spiral  arms. It orbits in the same direction as all the   disk stars once ... 07:58: ... is the main star   factory of the Milky way. It’s home to the spiral  arms and the big, bright star forming clouds   and our sun. We did ...
	2022-05-18: What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life? 03:40: ... inside a much larger nebula, probably in one of  the great spiral arms of the Milky Way’s disk.   While most of the cloud ended ... 10:04: ... into a disk of stars.   It took some time for the emerging spiral disk  to seed itself with enough heavy elements to   form ... 03:40: ... inside a much larger nebula, probably in one of  the great spiral arms of the Milky Way’s disk.   While most of the cloud ended up in ... 10:04: ... into a disk of stars.   It took some time for the emerging spiral disk  to seed itself with enough heavy elements to   form planetary ...
	2022-01-19: How To Build The Universe in a Computer 00:10: On a first grazing pass, the delicate spiral arms will be yanked almost out of their sockets. 00:30: ... a series of whirling collisions, all spiral structure will be obliterated, gas will be compacted to produce waves of ... 01:40: He arrayed 37 light bulbs on a plane, each one representing billions of stars in a spiral galaxy disk. 10:02: ... to produce waves of star formation and supernovae, settling into spiral structures - just like we see in the real ... 00:10: On a first grazing pass, the delicate spiral arms will be yanked almost out of their sockets. 01:40: He arrayed 37 light bulbs on a plane, each one representing billions of stars in a spiral galaxy disk. 00:30: ... a series of whirling collisions, all spiral structure will be obliterated, gas will be compacted to produce waves of ... 10:02: ... to produce waves of star formation and supernovae, settling into spiral structures - just like we see in the real ...
	2021-12-20: What Happens If A Black Hole Hits Earth? 15:30: ... lack it entirely. He asks whether the new MOND explains these, or only spiral galaxies? Given that the new MOND has trouble explaining the Bullet ...
	2021-11-10: What If Our Understanding of Gravity Is Wrong? 00:24: ... the early 60s, Vera Rubin proved that the spiral galaxies are rotating so fast that they should fling themselves apart - ... 04:08: If you tune the modification right you recover  the observed rotation curves for spiral galaxies very nicely without the need for extra mass. 06:35: ... Spiral galaxies all follow this tight relationship  between their speed of ... 07:05: ... the other hand, if you tune MOND to get the flat rotation curves of spiral galaxies, you automatically get the correct relationship  between ... 00:24: ... the early 60s, Vera Rubin proved that the spiral galaxies are rotating so fast that they should fling themselves apart - ... 04:08: If you tune the modification right you recover  the observed rotation curves for spiral galaxies very nicely without the need for extra mass. 06:35: ... Spiral galaxies all follow this tight relationship  between their speed of rotation ... 07:05: ... the other hand, if you tune MOND to get the flat rotation curves of spiral galaxies, you automatically get the correct relationship  between rotation ...
	2021-08-10: How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse 16:58: ... in many ways, including by watching the radio light emitted by electrons spiraling in that magnetic field - what we call synchrotron radiation. Galactic ...
	2021-08-03: How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology 09:18: ... If two white dwarfs are orbiting each other, we expect them to slowly spiral together because they emit gravitational radiation that saps away their ... 13:41: ... magnetized white dwarf probably formed when two low mass white dwarfs spiralled into each other. It teeters on the edge of explosion, and may force us ...
	2021-07-21: How Magnetism Shapes The Universe 02:30: ... lines - and the net result of that is that charged particles tend to spiral around magnetic field ... 04:21: We can see those tangled field lines in ultraviolet light as charged particles spiral along them, up and down from the Sun’s surface. 04:43: Follow one of these magnetic blasts and you’ll spiral through the solar system on a giangantic magnetic tornado. 08:21: We even have clear views of magnetic fields in many distant spiral galaxies. 08:26: We see that the field tends to be threaded along the spiral arms. 12:23: ... and we see them through the radio light emitted by electrons that spiral slowly in these vast ... 08:26: We see that the field tends to be threaded along the spiral arms. 08:21: We even have clear views of magnetic fields in many distant spiral galaxies. 12:23: ... and we see them through the radio light emitted by electrons that spiral slowly in these vast ...
	2021-04-13: What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes? 01:39: ... galaxy it forms a vast halo around twice the diameter of the Milky Way’s spiral disk, where most of the stars are ...
	2021-03-23: Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect 15:21: ... black holes spiral towards each other, the frequency of the last phase of the inspiral is ...
	2021-03-16: The NEW Crisis in Cosmology 10:40: ... beasts - the maelstrom of gas fluctuates in brightness as it spirals into   the black hole. And so we see lensed quasar images ...
	2021-02-17: Gravitational Wave Background Discovered? 00:00: ... merger of the most massive black holes in the universe or by the slow in spiral of smaller compact objects in our galaxy for that we're building our ...
	2021-01-19: Can We Break the Universe? 06:50: Again, we tilt the line, but on a cylinder that leads to a line of simultaneous events that spirals up and down the cylinder as a helix.
	2020-09-21: Could Life Evolve Inside Stars? 02:09: You could also get a topological defect if you tried to brush the rug into a spiral. 02:19: But at the eye of the spiral you’d have a non-smooth transition.
	2020-08-24: Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model? 01:32: ... by electric fields, but now a constant magnetic field causes the beam to spiral outwards from its central ...
	2020-08-17: How Stars Destroy Each Other 00:57: As the zombified stellar core and still-living companion spiraled closer together. 02:07: ... inevitable that many stellar remnants will end up in these parasitic spirals with their ... 04:38: ... charged particles spiral along the magnetic field lines they emit synchrotron radiation, and ... 13:22: The waves get generated when extreme masses spiral together at very small distances. 00:57: As the zombified stellar core and still-living companion spiraled closer together. 02:07: ... inevitable that many stellar remnants will end up in these parasitic spirals with their ...
	2020-07-28: What is a Theory of Everything: Livestream 00:00: ... einstein's theory also predicts gravitational waves and black hole in spirals and math just seems to be more and more useful and even all the ...
	2020-07-20: The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars 00:58: It seemed innocuous enough at first glance - two compact bodies spiraling together. 08:16: ... lot about the structure of these objects by the way they warped as they spiraled together, and by the stuff they spewed out after ... 00:58: It seemed innocuous enough at first glance - two compact bodies spiraling together.
	2020-06-30: Dissolving an Event Horizon 07:15: Stuff doesn’t normally fall straight into a black hole - it spirals in as its orbit decays. 07:31: ... of gas surrounding the black hole like in a quasar, then the gas only spirals inwards because angular momentum is carried outwards by ... 07:15: Stuff doesn’t normally fall straight into a black hole - it spirals in as its orbit decays. 07:31: ... of gas surrounding the black hole like in a quasar, then the gas only spirals inwards because angular momentum is carried outwards by ...
	2020-05-04: How We Know The Universe is Ancient 01:35: ... the nature of these faint, fuzzy patches of light on the sky known as spiral nebulae. Were they blobs of gas in the Milky Way, or vast, distant ...
	2020-03-24: How Black Holes Spin Space Time 04:26: ... dragged around in a circle - so less waterfall and more whirlpool. Water spiraling down a drain in a flat sink doesn’t know about the hole - it only knows ... 05:49: ... orbits exist - unless you’re firing your rockets like crazy, you must spiral either inwards or outwards. But for a rotating black hole, frame ... 04:26: ... dragged around in a circle - so less waterfall and more whirlpool. Water spiraling down a drain in a flat sink doesn’t know about the hole - it only knows ...
	2020-01-13: How To Capture Black Holes 00:59: ... waves - which saps orbital energy from the system. The black holes spiral closer and closer together. In the last instant they coalesce into a ... 03:34: ... other stars or black holes can tear binary pairs apart before they can spiral ... 05:58: ... more quickly than by gravitational radiation alone. This means they can spiral together before being ripped apart by a glancing blow with another ... 00:59: ... waves - which saps orbital energy from the system. The black holes spiral closer and closer together. In the last instant they coalesce into a single ...
	2019-10-07: Black Hole Harmonics 01:38: They spiral together and touch – instantly becoming a single surface. 08:09: ... – a pair of black holes, each 30 or so times the mass of the sun, spiraling into each other one and a half billion light years ...
	2019-09-03: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Reversing? 00:38: Magnetic fields exert a force on moving charged particles, causing them to spiral around those force lines.
	2019-07-25: Deciphering The Vast Scale of the Universe 02:24: But to prove that these spiral nebulae were really island universes, we needed to find their distances. 04:12: That means if you spot a Cepheid variable in a distant spiral nebulae you can find the distance to both. 04:36: ... galaxy and with more distance measurements it became clear that all spiral nebulae were island universes of their ... 02:24: But to prove that these spiral nebulae were really island universes, we needed to find their distances. 04:12: That means if you spot a Cepheid variable in a distant spiral nebulae you can find the distance to both. 04:36: ... galaxy and with more distance measurements it became clear that all spiral nebulae were island universes of their ...
	2019-07-01: Thorium and the Future of Nuclear Energy 16:45: ... elliptical galaxies. So orientation isn't as meaningful as in a spiral ... 16:59: ... active galactic nuclei tend to live in spiral galaxies for example Seyfert galaxies and they can have their Jets ... 16:45: ... elliptical galaxies. So orientation isn't as meaningful as in a spiral galaxy. ...
	2019-06-17: How Black Holes Kill Galaxies 00:08: ... of the star in the galactic bulge that's the central bowl like part of a spiral galaxy or the entirety of an Elliptical galaxy and every bulge contains ... 05:24: ... had any for long time The short-lived hot massive stars that give Spiral galaxies, like the Milky way, their blue-white sheen have long since ... 00:08: ... of the star in the galactic bulge that's the central bowl like part of a spiral galaxy or the entirety of an Elliptical galaxy and every bulge contains a ...
	2019-06-06: The Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions 02:47: ... perhaps twin remnants of a once binary pair of massive stars they slowly spiral towards each other as a gravitational radiation saps their orbital ...
	2019-05-01: The Real Science of the EHT Black Hole 07:19: Any closer and anything besides light will quickly spiral into the black hole. 07:59: Synchrotron results from electrons spiraling in magnetic fields.
	2019-04-24: No Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter? 00:03: ... the early 70s when Vera Rubin discovered that the rotation rates of spiral galaxies were too fast given the mass of their visible stars alone they ...
	2019-01-24: The Crisis in Cosmology 00:39: ...by measuring the distances to the spiral nebulae They were many millions of light years from us,...
	2019-01-16: Our Antimatter, Mirrored, Time-Reversed Universe 00:42: ... get painted backwards every screw with right-handed thread or right spiraling coil is replaced with a left-handed version our intuition tells us that ...
	2018-12-12: Quantum Physics in a Mirror Universe 00:02: ... object is called its helicity a spot on its surface draws a helix that spirals either one way or the other but the general term for handedness is ...
	2018-10-03: How to Detect Extra Dimensions 01:07: A pair of neutron stars spiralled together and merged. 01:11: These superdense remnants of dead stars churned the fabric of space and time in their death spiral. 01:07: A pair of neutron stars spiralled together and merged.
	2018-07-04: Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model? 13:24: One minute I'm learning the constellations or Einstein quotes to impress my friends, and next, well, it's a long, sad down spiral to where I am today.
	2018-05-09: How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever 05:16: On the large scale, we see the distribution of stellar velocities through the spiral structure of our part of the Milky Way.
	2018-03-28: The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision 00:38: ... has a beautiful spiral structure, spanning its gently rotating disk 220,000 light years in ... 05:30: The giant spiral galaxies fall together, and the little Triangulum Galaxy joins the party. 05:35: The first impact in around four billion years completely disrupts the spiral structure of both galaxies, creating these amazing tidal tails. 06:26: Then they spiral towards each other and merge. 08:37: ... a neighbor whose visible stars revealed its great distance, and whose spiral structure helped us guess the shape of our own ... 05:30: The giant spiral galaxies fall together, and the little Triangulum Galaxy joins the party. 00:38: ... has a beautiful spiral structure, spanning its gently rotating disk 220,000 light years in diameter, and a ... 05:35: The first impact in around four billion years completely disrupts the spiral structure of both galaxies, creating these amazing tidal tails. 08:37: ... a neighbor whose visible stars revealed its great distance, and whose spiral structure helped us guess the shape of our own ... 00:38: ... has a beautiful spiral structure, spanning its gently rotating disk 220,000 light years in diameter, and a central ...
	2018-02-14: What is Energy? 13:45: That could have sent a new generation of planets spiraling into the sun.
	2018-01-10: What Do Stars Sound Like? 12:56: The charged particles spiral around the axial magnetic fields and emit photons as they do.
	2017-12-20: Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst 07:34: This star is part of a binary system, and it's this binary orbit that produces the spiraling nebula. 07:40: The fact that the spiral appears to be face on suggests that the axis of the entire system is pointed directly at the Earth. 07:34: This star is part of a binary system, and it's this binary orbit that produces the spiraling nebula.
	2017-12-06: Understanding the Uncertainty Principle with Quantum Fourier Series 13:53: Hanny's Voorweep is a wee blob of light right next to a spiral galaxy. 13:58: ... burp of energy from an active supermassive black hole in the middle of a spiral galaxy just before it ran out of ... 13:53: Hanny's Voorweep is a wee blob of light right next to a spiral galaxy. 13:58: ... burp of energy from an active supermassive black hole in the middle of a spiral galaxy just before it ran out of ...
	2017-10-11: Absolute Cold 08:38: ... going to have to wait billions of years for this black hole binary to spiral together from losing angular momentum to gravitational ...
	2017-10-04: When Quasars Collide STJC 05:15: The radio light seen here is from electrons spiraling in those magnetic fields, so-called synchrotron radiation. 06:14: Spiraling electrons produce radio waves a lots of frequencies all the way down to very low energies. 05:15: The radio light seen here is from electrons spiraling in those magnetic fields, so-called synchrotron radiation. 06:14: Spiraling electrons produce radio waves a lots of frequencies all the way down to very low energies.
	2017-09-13: Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal? 03:17: And that gravitational radiation sucks energy from the orbiting system, causing the neutron stars to spiral inwards.
	2017-05-31: The Fate of the First Stars 01:54: Pop one stars formed the most recently, and are still forming today, typically in the disks of spiral galaxies.
	2017-02-22: The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System! 05:43: Having lost energy, that dust spirals closer towards the star. 07:48: ... with another massive planet in the system, sending that planet spiraling closer to Fomalhaut to become a so-called hot Jupiter, while Dagon was ... 05:43: Having lost energy, that dust spirals closer towards the star.
	2017-02-02: The Geometry of Causality 11:41: It's a beautiful barred spiral galaxy in the Fornax cluster. 13:17: Below that, accreting material spirals into the black hole very quickly, and yeah, time dilation would be significant there. 11:41: It's a beautiful barred spiral galaxy in the Fornax cluster. 13:17: Below that, accreting material spirals into the black hole very quickly, and yeah, time dilation would be significant there.
	2016-07-20: The Future of Gravitational Waves 00:43: These oscillations echoed the final 1/10 of a second of the end spiral and merger of a pair of black holes, each around 30 times the mass of the Sun.
	2016-07-06: Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past 06:56: ... early rampage into the inner solar system would have sent such planets spiraling into the sun, leaving only a limited amount of material to then build ...
	2016-06-15: The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing 05:07: You can see the nearby spiral galaxy, whose gravitational field bends spacetime to create these paths. 08:41: So photons will inevitably spiral inwards or outwards. 05:07: You can see the nearby spiral galaxy, whose gravitational field bends spacetime to create these paths. 08:41: So photons will inevitably spiral inwards or outwards.
	2016-04-13: Will the Universe Expand Forever? 11:58: Orbits aren't perfectly circular, and stars drift apart as they move in and out of the spiral arms and above and below the galactic disc.
	2016-04-06: We Are Star Stuff 09:27: ... orbit leave behind neutron star corpses, those remnants will eventually spiral in as they radiate away their orbital energy in gravitational ...
	2016-03-23: How Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe 11:14: The reason spiral galaxies are discy is that those discs formed before the stars actually formed, back when the material was mostly gas.
	2016-03-16: Why is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat? 00:23: It loves building spheres like stars, planets, and moons, and disks like spiral galaxies, solar systems, and some crazy stuff like quasars. 08:20: This is not true of things like spiral galaxies, solar systems, and the whirlpools of gas around quasars. 09:50: Pretty much the same thing happens with spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, except on a much, much larger scale. 10:20: They don't just give us our beautiful globe of the Earth, our spiral Milky Way Galaxy. 00:23: It loves building spheres like stars, planets, and moons, and disks like spiral galaxies, solar systems, and some crazy stuff like quasars. 08:20: This is not true of things like spiral galaxies, solar systems, and the whirlpools of gas around quasars. 09:50: Pretty much the same thing happens with spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, except on a much, much larger scale. 00:23: It loves building spheres like stars, planets, and moons, and disks like spiral galaxies, solar systems, and some crazy stuff like quasars. 08:20: This is not true of things like spiral galaxies, solar systems, and the whirlpools of gas around quasars. 10:20: They don't just give us our beautiful globe of the Earth, our spiral Milky Way Galaxy.
	2016-02-11: LIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves! 02:35: As a result, the stellar remnants will gradually spiral in towards each other. 03:13: The in spiral speeds up exponentially.
	2015-10-22: Have Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!? 04:22: ... radiation, their obits will lose energy and decay, causing them to spiral in towards each ...

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