It’s Alive! Black Hole Awakens and Goes on a Cosmic Binge.mp4

What does the birth of a black hole look like? Well, back in 2019 astronomers just so happened to catch that very thing in action.

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00:00what does the birth of a black hole look like well back in 2019 astronomers just so happened

00:09to catch that very thing in action the galaxy where it all started is called sdss 1335 plus

00:150728 and it resides some 300 million light years away and while observing it the astronomers say

00:21it's suddenly lit up and in the years since it has begun glowing even brighter that means the

00:26black hole is devouring everything around it as a black hole that is not consuming material is

00:31pretty much invisible that's because when a black hole eats it creates great gravitational forces

00:36and heat all of which can be detected by our instrumentation the supermassive black hole in

00:41this scenario is around 1.5 million times the mass of our sun so what caused this black hole

00:46to suddenly wake up well astronomers aren't exactly sure what they believed happened was that its

00:50surroundings finally reached a critical mass essentially flipping a switch and awakening the

00:55supermassive black hole with the researchers saying about their investigation in the case of sdss 1335

01:01plus 0728 we were able to observe the awakening of the massive black hole which suddenly started

01:07to feast on gas available in its surroundings becoming very bright