A Runaway Supermassive Black Hole

Black holes are a wondrous force of the universe! Hank explains how we found a supermassive rogue black hole & how DNA behaves in space!

Hosted by: Hank Green
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[SBroproductions]

"Runaway" and "Supermassive Black Hole" are not words I like to see in the same sentence.

[TheObsidianX]

Runaway as in what you should do when it's near by

[spooksy]

If you get kicked out of multiple galaxies then maybe you're the problem.

[Strype]

Pretty darn terrifying knowing that there could potentially be invisible objects with the mass of a million suns just casually whizzing through space with the capacity to completely obliterate anything that happens to be in its path.

[TheRogueWolf]

"Because, like, what else do you do when you find something this weird?!"

Usually, poke it with a stick.

We're gonna need a really long stick.

[fromscratchauntybindy]

I listen to Dear Hank n John, and HFS, and Ear Biscuits personally. Thanks for the awesome content everyone!

[ganaraminukshuk]

You forgot the biggest question on everyone's mind: is that runaway supermassive black hole headed towards us?!

(Even though it doesn't matter in the long run; space is big.)

[Belzughast]

It's interesting how Hank talks. He rushes words out, yet accents the important ones strongly.

[carlwitt]

I thought telomeres determined how many times a cell could divide, which would mean that if you found a way to elongate them, you would live longer.

[ShadyPossum]

TIL going to space causes immortality. Theres no doubt about it

[TheOmegaDMM]

Well the changes have some promise. Definitely worth keeping an eye on that development.

[MasterTheSwag]

I just took a shot of jameson to scishow. LONG LIVE JOHN AND HANK GREEN!!

[Arcsecant]

Those are one of the reasons why it takes precise calculations to make the jump into hyperspace.

[aqgpandemic]

Lyrics
Oh baby, don't you know I suffer?
Oh baby, can you hear me moan?
You caught me under false pretenses
How long before you let me go?

Ooh
You set my soul alight
You set my soul alight

You set my soul alight
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the super massive

You set my soul alight
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the super massive

I thought I was a fool for no one
Oh baby, I'm a fool for you
You're the queen of the superficial
And how long before you tell the truth?

You set my soul alight
You set my soul alight

You set my soul alight
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the super massive

You set my soul alight
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the super massive

Super massive black hole
Super massive black hole
Super massive black hole

Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the super massive

Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the super massive

You set my soul alight
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the super massive

You set my soul alight
Glaciers melting in the dead of night

[KaoticWhisper]

Phil plait is on Audible? I'm sold, thanks!

[weirdyoda]

Thank you for putting the title story first for once.

[squiddler]

This reminds me of a game where you could play as any object ranging from an astroid to a black hole, and as a black hole you could just fly through the galaxy at rediculous speeds. It was really fun.

Well, it was as the black hole anyway. It didn't seem as fun for everything else around the black hole...

[Swanke]

Scishow: it's a decompression mechanism. The measurements involving telomere length should be measured in a space, otherwise I'd imagine it'd be difficult to measure the true extent to which this effect occurs. Also, don't forget about what behaviors we already know our bodies exhibit in space.

[aperson]

If two galaxies came together one or two billion years ago to form 3C186, and it's eight billion light years away, we wouldn't know anything about it yet.

[grimwatcher]

You guys meant 35 THOUSAND lights years from the center not millions.
I'm surprised that got past your editing guys.
Awesome show overall as always.