The CRISIS IN COSMOLOGY solved with black holes as dark energy?! Night Sky News November 2024

00:00 Introduction00:56 Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars visible
01:17 Venus in Teapot of Sagittarius
02:36 Jupiter at Opposition 7th Dec
04:27 Geminids Meteor Shower Peak (on nearly Full Moon sadly)
06:47 Ground News AD
09:12 JWST Proposal Cycle 4
15:50 Using the Solar System as a primordial black hole detector
22:35 Black holes are dark energy?!
32:28 Outro
33:10 Bloopers

Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
Video edited by Jonny Hyman

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👩🏽‍💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.

[essaboselin]

The ancient CRT monitors had one major advantage - they were big enough and warm enough that the cats would curl up to sleep on top of them, and they couldn't knock them over.

[lordmuntague]

@24:13 "Pressure pushing down on you..."

Wasn't that part of research released by Bowie, Mercury and collaborators c. 1981? 🎶

[scarletkinkajou]

As much as I hang on your every word during these, when Pippin is in the background anything you are saying becomes white noise 😄

[Bcchnte]

I propose a new paper, "Cats And Their Effect On The Success Of Science Communicators"!

[RebeccaGorham-cu]

oooh a night sky news, i love- CAT. THERES A CAT. OH MY GOD CAT

[nickjohnson]

Primordial black holes are the cause of missing socks in the dryer.

[seerofallthatisobvious]

I love when your cat makes cameo appearances in your videos, such a pretty kitty.

[gilmartinez]

I'm so tired of people saying: "don't bring politics into..."... if you haven't already realized it, Govt controls every aspect of your life. Whether you like it or not. Who's in Govt matters because your life matters

[lizv]

I love the sass of counting "if"s

[katywalczak]

"interesting" ... such an optimistic word for such circumstances

[cranieldaig]

Thankyou for your content Doc, you’ve revitalised a love of the cosmos in me that’s been dormant for decades, keep that passion coming!

[Sinnistering]

Hubble, imo, should be indefinitely maintained until we can (1) fund a true replacement and (2) bring it back to Earth. It is just too important of an observatory—and too accessible—to let it decay like another piece of space junk. Hubble not only unlocked countless scientific breakthroughs; it brough the public back into space in a way we haven't seen since the Apollo program.

It truly belongs in a museum.

[spookydonkey]

Spider cat, spider cat. Doing things that a spider cat can.

[petepanteraman]

Ok so a paper was recently released describing black holes inner workings. It postulates that matter is broken down to dissolution, which then creates dark energy. If you can imagine how the forces inside the atom work, now pop those "bubbles" and what are you left with. This destruction of forces down to the quark level or beyond, will release a massive amount of energy. It's a fascinating dive into what happens to matter inside black holes and possibly might explain dark energy.

[rickseiden]

Congratulations on 750, 000! 3/4 of a million!

You are one of my favorite science communicators and my favorite astrophysics communicator! Absolutely deserve all the subscriptions!

[Jkesler]

24:10 Pressure? Pushing down on me? Pushing down on you? No man asked for...

[keiraferrari]

Sorry Dr. Becky, I didn’t get what you said. I was watching the cat.

[BlinkinFirefly]

Omigosh your kitty in the background is being too cuuuute! ^^ Perseids is my favorite meteor shower too, but I'm still so sad the moon is gonna outshine the Geminids shower :( Not like I can see it well regardless since I live in the city. Thank you Dr. Becky as always for putting in the time and energy and knowledge into these videos! I always look forward to your posts! This one about dark energy being coupled with black holes was a bit dizzying but still fascinating. I need to rewatch though I think to fully absorb lol <3

[Zurpanik]

My heart is broken about what could happen to curtail the research over the next years, and I know those who will do all we can to help. There needs to be an international effort that the US will return to as soon as we can - 🖖 Thank you Dr. Becky for the videos! They will be so valuable over the next couple years!

[robertspence]

I agree with your NASA budgeting concerns. Politics does matter sadly.