Seeing The Unseeable - Brian Cox on Black Hole Physics

Professor of particle physics Brian Cox explains the science behind the mysterious cosmic objects known as black holes.
Brian Cox gives a detailed description of black holes based on the latest observations and theoretical understanding of these objects.

The James Webb Space Telescope is also helping scientists peer into the dark side of the universe. Webb has given scientists an unprecedented view. With its powerful, infrared vision and extremely high spatial resolution, Webb can pierce through the shroud of dust surrounding the nucleus to reveal hot gas near the active black holes and measure the velocity of bright outflows.

Black holes are some of the most fascinating and mind-bending objects in the cosmos. Though detecting black holes is a complex job, estimates from NASA suggest there could be as many as 10 million to a billion stellar black holes in the Milky Way alone.

In principle, any object - even a rock - can be made into a black hole, by squeezing it into a tiny enough volume. Under these conditions, the object continues to collapse under its own weight, crushing itself down to zero size. However, according to Einstein's theory, the object's mass and gravity remain behind, in the form of an extreme distortion of the space and time around it. This distortion of space and time is the black hole.

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[stellarwind]

I’m a simple man. When I see Brian Cox and black holes I click the video.

[hrvojegrgic]

I like that Brian says three times "we don`t know" about what is in the center of black hole.
It is important to distinguish different theories from what we actually know.

[sugarsyrup]

Brian is just such a pleasant person to listen to.

[jestermoon]

Where does the energy go? Is spacetime shrinking and can we measure that?
Thx

[The.Renovator]

I think the same way Einstein showed that matter and energy are two sides of the same coin, I think there could be a link that shows space and matter could potentially be two sides of the same coin as well. Matter always obeys the curvature of space and space always warps accordingly to the amount of matter present, you can't have one without the other. This proves that they are connected in some fundamental way that we have just yet to understand.

[davidrobertson]

Gravity is, we're told, the weakest of the forces, and yet look at that black hole. Gravity is scary as shit.

[floki]

If matter cannot be created or destroyed, the matter that goes into a blackhole cannot simply disappear (can it?). Where does the matter go?

[jamesruscheinski]

What does it say that gravity waves leave black hole, while light is not able to leave black hole?

[DonnieG]

Could the black holes contain the missing Engery of the missing mas of universe?

[bobipaunov]

I can't believe, that we have came so far on this theory, pog.

[Junior-lqsf]

Knowing knowledge of science and biology Gets me kind of embarrassed of my humankind talking about God-made everything

[brucethegoose]

If a black hole annihilates matter how does it have a mass, also if matter is gone, how does the gravity
remain, nonsensical in my book, please explain.

[Hararetarumaki]

What goes into a black hole explodes out the other side and creates a new universe. Everything That gets absorbed by the black hole becomes the building blocks of another Big Bang

[DSGxTennessee]

So theoretically you could literally watch the end of the world and our solar system just by going to a black hole and orbiting extremely close to it for a few weeks or months??

[RonnieBomaye]

The radius of a black hole could be bigger than the circumference. My brain just exploded on that one...

[stepheningermany]

The big mystery is where Brian Cox is in this video

[billbaker]

Really enjoy your content. It is a shame than mankind will never solve the mysteries of black holes or other advanced phenomena because we are rendering our planet uninhabitable for humans at a rate quicker than our ability to understand what we are trying study.

[Greenhead]

We need to send a probe on a long cable that will send back information, if we cant send back data then we can do it with a cable

[theheartofbrunswickisyourc]

Are black holes tunnels to another dimension

[rogerharley]

It could be that Before the universes existence was one big spinning whirlpool of nothing but cold then that created the first black hole,
It’s a matter compressed for opinion.