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