What Was The First Black Hole?

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Researched and Written by Leila Battison
Narrated and Edited by David Kelly

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REFERENCES:

Huge thanks to the IllustrisTNG collaboration for footage of their simulation.

Thanks to NASA and ESO for space footage.

Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid.

Soundtrack from Silver Maple, Artlist and Epidemic Sound.

Image Credits:

Keiper Belt NASA/GSFC/Marc Kuchner and Christopher Stark

Black Hole Eats Star Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR)

Universe Simulation NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing

00:00 Introduction
06:14 The First Black Hole
15:13 Supermassive
26:11 Before Atoms
34:22 Finding The Needle

[AvaByNight]

As an german I find it imennsly entertaining, that an guy called Schwarzschild calculated the no return area and it's named after him, because "Schwarzschild" in german means "black shield". Untill I learned the no return border was named after an person I thought it was an term coined by an scientist because it's just fitting, just like the term "black hole"

[sebastianrogel]

Yesss!
Nice...
I'm chronically ill and don't have much to look forward to in life.
Your wonderful series helps me get my mind off of the gruelling pain and be at ease for a while.

Thank you

[chadsheldon]

Karl Schwarzschild has always fascinated me. He’s on the front lines of the war and when he’s not fighting, he chooses to derive field equations for Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. He survives the war only to die of a skin disease. Dude was fascinating to me.

[universemaps]

Wow! This video is awesome and it's an honor that you used my images. Thanks for taking the time to mention my full name in the description. Keep it up!

[johnodanahue]

Your team have really improved, the flow, content and overall depth is really really good!
It makes for really great viewing, I look forward to more uploads to the history of the earth channel as well!

Please keep up the uploads, if there is a way to support you guys directly like patreon to get more uploads on this channel and history of the earth channel make available to the subscribers.

You narration skills have really really improved David! Well done and I continue to look forward to more uploads’

[tdbla]

Hey David, just want to thank you guys for these videos. I could genuinely see this series on Netflix but I'm happy it's here on YouTube. I deal with anxiety and trouble sleeping without something to fall asleep to some times, so I have watched all these videos multiple times. There's something really soothing about hearing you talk about history and cover topics in these videos and falling asleep to have crazy dreams of outer space and other planets/stars. Keep up the good work you guys :)

[gravitationalredshift]

Holy crap!! I've seen a hefty amount of black hole documentaries, but this one takes my #1 spot! The narration, visuals, and music all come together so well, this is amazing!

[jondavey]

That was the best and most terrifying description of falling into a black hole I’ve ever head and I’ve heard many.

[hmburdock]

It’s so nicely narrated that I often just listen to it when I go to sleep. My thoughts are then somewhere between the stars. But the first time I always watch it in full :) thanks for that great content and quality!

[Dope_FiveO]

In the past month or two, I've had quite the challenge of finding a video on astronomy that's not only put together really well but also informative and captivating. I found this for the first time today and watched it. It's unequivocally nothing short of amazing! I wholeheartedly appreciate the amount of time and effort that was put into this. THANK YOU for delivering such quality content.

[darknight]

One small correction; at 13:00 you describe the formation of a black hole, you state that ‘if the mass of the dying star is greater than about 3 solar masses, …[it will become a black hole]’ - it’s the core that has to be >3, not the star. The original star may have had 20-30x more mass than the star itself.

[MrLittletube]

Always a surprise when they drop. Absolutely makes my week when you guys post a new video. Best thing on YouTube. Amazing work.

[MarsJenkar]

Eight days after John Wheeler's fateful lecture, the Star Trek episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday" aired, where the concept showed the starship traveling backward in time upon escaping an encounter with a superdense "black star". Star Trek came very close to naming the phenomenon we know as a black hole!

[Wajiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

"Isaac Newton rarely went to sleep before 3:00am. It worked for him but it won't work for you."

I felt that.

[artdonovandesign]

Your description of Karl Schwarzschild in those terrible trenches, receiving an envelope from his friend was a wonderful and evocative passage!

Elegantly written and narrated and, blessedly, without political observations. Pure science and science history. Thank you so much, History of the Universe and Leila Battison.

[Samm_b]

this channel deserves more recognition! every single video is worthy of praise for the detailed explanation and history behind it.

[owencraft]

i've gotta say i love how your videos can transition from cosmic physics to down to earth history in such a flawless way, quite excellent

[roeva]

'Incomprehensible Horror' -- Without a doubt, my favorite description of a black hole.

[leebuckley]

The content and quality of your work is absolutely amazing 👏. Always looking forward to your next posting 🥰

[edmundbasham]

8 mins in and bloody loving it. Great work as always - for me its about the perfect ratio of accessibility and detail.