What Is The Biggest Thing In The Universe?

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Written by @PaulMSutter

Narrated by David Kelly
Edited by @ArtandContext (Manuel Rubio) and David Kelly
Sound Editing by Craig Stevenson
3D Visualizations by Xinyu Gao
Big thanks to Dr Miguel Aragon and Dr Mark Neyrink for their model of Bootes
Laniakea animation by Alperaym

Music from Epidemic Sound, Artlist, Silver Maple and Yehezkel Raz.
Stock footage from Videoblocks, Artgrid and Shutterstock.

00:00 Introduction
04:50 Mapping The Universe
13:34 Into The Great Unknown
26:34 Supervoids
44:46 Eating The Universe

[rikivlogs]

I’m so high


Edit: still high - the strain was “Pablo’s Revenge”

[turkicnomad]

The scales of the universe are so immense that it’s too inconceivable for me to even grasp what’s being shown, but there is one thing that always knocks the wind out of me. This is just the _observable_ universe.

[quinbatcheller]

Its wild to think that there could be a Civilization so distant from us across the universe that their observable universe would be completely different than ours.

[yourbuddyunit]

King Ghidorah supercluster is probably the coolest astrophysical name I've ever had.

[NikHem]

It‘s absolutely insane to me that we are even remotely able to map the universe on this scale, given how incomprehensibly large the scales we are talking about are.

[johnbender]

I'm 100% sober on my lunch break, and halfway through this video I have just endured my most profound existential terror to date.

[Cubix]

the biggest thing in the universe is hands down caseoh

[ROCHAKU]

anyone play this to fall asleep
i do it everyday religiously i can’t sleep without this chanel’s video

[GordonBrevity]

20:40 A nice flip from feeling "Wow, there's so much out there" to "Wow, the universe is so scarily quiet and empty".

[that_one_helljumper]

The fact a supercluster was named after King Ghidorah is freaking awesome

[matthewcharles]

This is the first space documentary I’ve seen where I can say I feel like I actually learned something. Analogizing cosmic voids with earth geography is such a brilliant way to simplify the concept. Thank you for making this!

[chaerodactyl]

the similarities in structure between the cosmic web, nervous systems, and mycorrhizal networks strike me as one of the fundamental fractals of existence & information

[BLAZENYCBLACKOPS]

Space is incredible, when we recently had a Earthquake here in NYC I told my oldest son that it was just a reminder that we live on a active rock that’s hurtling through space, something I personally believe many people tend to forget because they’re so wrapped up in their everyday lives and what they observe in front of them and around them, failing to look up a realize the bigger picture, the biggest picture the Universe!

[davstoops]

15:14 "here be dragons ." This quote stuck with me since I heard it in the Entire History of the Maya. Which is another absolute gem from these brothers.

[cbtveeo]

Boy how to cheer me up after a rough day : new video of my favourite channel

[mikenative]

Legendary, I love it when a new episode comes out. HOTU is my absolute favourite thing on YouTube

[Buttheab]

Mr. lahey “The shit abyss.”
Randy “Not another day of the shit abyss.”

[matthewcharles]

If you think about it, it’s no small irony that voids are the byproduct of matter collecting and the byproduct of that byproduct is the eventual separation of all matter.

[ptimal]

The scale of the universe is beyond words. Spending just a moment considering it is enough to dramatically tune your perspective. Seems the universes size is indicative of its depth, what we think we know about life, ourselves, is just an inconceivablly tiny speck of what there is to know.

[Benson_aka_devils_advocate_]

The emptiness of atoms is another example.