Scientists Were Observing a Galaxy Far Away When It Did Something Absolutely Strange

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Astronomers for years thought the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 was about as remarkable as its serial code name.

Then it did something scientists had never seen a galaxy do: Suddenly, this frankly forgettable space neighborhood 300 million light-years away threw the lights on. That happened nearly five years ago, and it's only gotten brighter since.

Astronomers believe they just bore witness to a supermassive black hole, the sleeping giant at its galactic center, awakening. Previously, no one had seen a black hole rousing as it was happening.

[johnrains]

Nothing we see is in real time. Even the light from our own sun is 8 minutes old. The light you see as your reflection in your bathroom mirror is not real time. In fact, I submit that the phrase "real time" is an oxymoron since everything we see is light that is reflected off something or incident from a light generator at some distance from our eyes. Hence, everything we see has a delay inherent in the process.

[cindydavis]

I am 73 years old and any “Space Science” I learned in school is a distance memory. But I enjoy watching these type of videos on YouTube. I admit, no matter how they try to simplify their information, most of it is still beyond me. But, I am a believer in God and Jesus. And I can’t wait till I get to heaven and “know” all about this plus see it all in real time. It’s not important to me that you share my beliefs or that I share yours. To be able to look out over space, when I die, and understand it all will be amazing to me. However, till then, I am just amazed over what I see in these videos I watch. Thank you

[MuwaUWU]

I never understood why the concept of mass skipping the star stage and going straight to Black hole was deemed implausible after all there's so much mass so densely packed together in the early universe that will only make sense for it to do that in any denser regions that would form galaxies would be capable of creating their own black holes

[jjaffee]

Technology reveals how primitive we still are; as we play with sticks and stones and argue about whose magical origin is correct, science reveals more questions. Hopefully one day we’ll unite and focus our energies to locate new questions and maybe even a few answers; answers that bare some simple truths.

[gordiebrooks]

“This is the first time we have seen this happen in real time” !! Well it’s not really “real time” because it happened millions of years ago.

[JKDVIPER]

3:02 ok guys here’s the deal, you need to think about what happens to matter when TOO MUCH of it is gathered into one place. At first, weight, mass, pressure, equals fusion. So we see stars. But add too much mass, too much pressure; imagine your cooking a pot of water on the stove, and your water turns into GELL, then something harder, the elements that break down into subatomic particles inside a black hole core have been through a supernova or hyper nova, that added squish effect where temperature cannot release itself goes boom. But the remnant is a condensed liquid core of nuclear material much smaller than a star core. The singularity does exist, but not how you might think. It acts as a core just as our earth has a dense core. But heat, entropy, the BTU, the calorie, and everything we associate with TIME and MOTION are gone. That’s why you see those lazers shoot out of both sides, heat has no space to move matter around. Thus, entropy and ENTHALPY are outside in a convective zone where dead time meets a heated working mass of plasma. And when it builds up quickly, because the hole brought in matter, heat and movement will STAY OUTSIDE. So at the end of the day these black holes are what happens when matters weakest force, gravity, builds up like static, and crushes masses beyond recognition. If we were to be able to look at one? You’d see a heated plasma atmosphere, a ring, where heat chases cold acting like glue. And you wouldn’t see the inside part. You’d stop in time the sound you got near the edge. You’d freeze. Think about it? When you freeze a steak, it slows time and keeps it from rotting. So a black hole is the ultimate in freezing. Absolute zero. No molecular motion. Nothing REAL to point at. Matter crushed so bad, that the nucleus, and fermions start to say HEY, stop crushing me, with an outward defensive force. If you squish matter far enough, it begins to resist you.

[carllawler]

We can't even see the sun in real time....

[darianleyer]

My personal best guess as to PEARLSDG is that it simply had less gas to work with in the first place.

[alexsie]

A single solitary quiescent dwarf galaxy located at the outer observational limit of our telescopes. That’s so tantalisingly close to the beginning of our expanding universe. I guess we’re lucky to have found it, given everything that far out is zipping away from us at an ever increasing rate. At some stage the distance will be too great for its light to reach us. It will then just disappear. 😊

[kengrow]

I wish they would start these videos “once upon a time or a land far far away “so it was more clear that most of what they’re saying is guesses because we don’t know any of that stuff. We have educated guesses backed up by other educated guesses in a loop of scientist that are patting each other on the back. Scientific theory has been stated as fact for so long we just buy it.

[scottmcadam]

When you see something far away in space you are not observing it in real time !
If it is 140 light years away then what you are observing happened 140 years ago
Saying it is in real time will just confuse people

[rschiwal]

Technically, aren't ALL galexies far, far away?

[wmden]

I think the size of black holes that close to "the Big Bang", in time, means the universe is much older and larger than we think. Maybe it is even infinite. Now wouldn't that be something?

[minerr]

In my Opinion...
In my observation, I have still not heard/seen why the Gravity in Galaxies whirlpools around the center like a record on a turntable, where it shows the Relative speeds of the Arms. (How many times the Speed of light is the outer parts of the Arms going in relation to the stars near the Center?) Wouldn't this show that the Speed of Light is fluid?
Let's see the Math, and a simplified explanation. Or do I have to do the Math myself to quell my own curiosity?
Is the Central Black Hole the throat of the multi-Dimensional whirlpool? Does it take Infinite 3-D Galaxies to twist Space around the Center of the 4-D, (or higher) Galaxy?
Is Dark Energy and Dark Matter just a bleed-over from other 3-D Galaxies that share our XYZ[+ or - 1W]?
Do Globular Clusters imply that there aren't as many other Galaxies [W] in the same XYZ area to tidal lock them together?

Doesn't finding Galaxies 'older then the Big Bang' imply that the estimate on the age of the Universe is short?
So many Questions, so few answers...

[jdalton]

Many stars at the centre of a galaxy reach their age limit at roughly the same time. Multiple type II novae build up pressure in the centre of a galaxy which is resisted by the gravitational force of the existing equilibrium. Eventually huge chunks of the galaxy break away forming a quasar. This process is what we are seeing in this case. This is also the prediction given by Dewey Larson's Reciprocal System.

[cydonical]

I like how we are trying to figure out things on the edge of the observable universe and yet we still can't seem to figure out if there's a Planet X or exactly how many things are orbiting our sun. Just stymies me.

[thekingofmojacar]

When galaxies stop producing stars (via their nebulae), it means that they have reached or are close to their last cycle, or they are merging with other galaxies (as mentioned in this report). In other words, they are preparing for the end of their existence.
Of course, it would be completely absurd to produce stars when the end of the galaxy is near or a merged galaxy takes over this task...
Even if our cosmos isn´t perfect at all, it is subject to logical, long-tested processes (over many universe generations), and this applies equally to all cosmic structures...

[randallbutler]

I hope this doesn’t sound too stupid. But since there’s a super massive black hole at the center of most and maybe all galaxies, could it be that galaxies are formed by the existence of the black hole itself?

[choopoopoo]

Hello Territory, your microphone sounds like its over compressed or is in some conference setting. There is that underwater sound to your voice that comes with noise suppression and the room sound being interfered with (especially at the end of sentences) Are you recording the ambient room sound and then suppressing? The sound is of similar quality of a zoom call, which isn't really what you want for productions. I'm not sure what is causing it but I feel like your videos will improve somewhat in quality by changing what ever is causing this.
love the videos by the way and I really hope I didn't cause any offense by suggesting this

[fortyfukinseven]

No, we cannot observe this in "real-time". They don't actually mean literal real-time. What they mean, is we are observing it, rather than inferring that it happened from evidence. Calm down guys.