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What Happens When Two Black Holes Collide?! | How the Universe Works | Science Channel
What Happens When Two Black Holes Collide?! | How the Universe Works | Science Channel
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We're taking our seats for the most
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violent event in the universe, the
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collision of two super massive black
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holes. We've never witnessed this cosmic
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heavyweight championship, but we can
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build up a picture of this epic fight by
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studying other weight classes with
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lighter fighters.
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2020, the Earthbound Gravitational Wave
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Detector, LIGO, picks up the distinctive
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signal of a stellar mass black hole
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merger.
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What we saw was a black hole of 85 times
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the mass of our sun and another black
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hole of 66 times the mass of our sun
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smashing together to create a combined
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black hole.
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As someone who studies black hole
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mergers, this was a really exciting
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event.
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>> We're talking about the largest, the
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heaviest, the most massive black holes
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we have seen collide to date.
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It may be the largest detection, but on
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a universal scale, it's still a small
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fry. Like lightweight boxers, the two
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black holes circle each other and emit
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low energy gravitational waves.
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This energy loss causes the black holes
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to spiral in together.
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Finally, they collide in a cosmos
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shattering event,
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forming a single black hole and
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releasing a huge blast of gravitational
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waves. But when astronomers examine the
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single merged black hole, something
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doesn't add up.
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>> If you take the combined mass of the two
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black holes, you get to 150 times the
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mass of our sun. But actually, the black
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hole that's left only has a mass of 142
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times the mass of our sun. So, the mass
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you have before the event does not equal
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the mass you have after the event. What
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happened to that missing eight solar
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masses? The way these black hole mergers
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work is very roughly 5% of the total
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mass of the system gets converted into
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energy.
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It all comes down to E= MC^2.
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>> This is that beautiful equation that
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Einstein told us. E= MC². E is the
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energy and M is the mass.
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>> Einstein taught us that mass and energy
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are related. In fact, much of what we
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call mass is actually energy. In this
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case, the violence of the collision
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transforms 18,000
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trillion trillion tons of matter into an
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explosion of gravitational waves.
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>> In just a fraction of a second, 8 suns
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worth of matter is converted into pure
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unadulterated energy. The amount of
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energy released was so great that if you
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add up all the energy of all the stars
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burning in the universe,
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it was bigger than that.
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>> This event was a collision between
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relative lightweights,
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two stellar mass black holes.
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To understand heavyweight bouts, we need
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to scale up to super massive black
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holes.
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In the universe of sports, super massive
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black holes are the heavyweight
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contenders.
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>> With these big black holes, size
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matters. The bigger the better.
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>> More mass means more energy, which means
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more destructive power.
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>> We don't need to look too far to find
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this devastating muscle. This is M87
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star, one of the largest super massive
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black holes in our cosmic zip code.
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M87 star is huge. It weighs about 6
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billion solar masses, about 6 billion
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suns, and it's the size of our solar
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system.
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>> A collision between two 6 billion solar
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mass super massive black holes would
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release around 5 * 10 to the power of 56
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jewels.
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So, what's that mean in real world
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terms?
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>> It's hard to use words to express how
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much energy this is. And the numbers are
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so huge they're almost meaningless. The
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only way I can really explain this is
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in physics we have these comparisons so
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we can get a mental picture. But for
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something like this there is no mental
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picture that is so freaking big.
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>> So where does this destructive mass and
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energy come from?
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It starts with the simplest ingredient,
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hydrogen.
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Hydrogen is the basic building block of
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the universe.
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Each atom is tiny, but it contains a lot
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of energy.
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>> Hydrogen atoms contain a huge amount of
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energy, just like all matter does. And
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if it's unlocked in a certain way, there
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can be huge explosions.
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I mean, you take the mass contained
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simply in my hand and you could blow up
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pretty much the entire Earth.
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>> Matter has energy because it formed from
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energy in the early moments of the
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universe.
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>> In many ways, atoms are reservoirs of
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stored energy from the Big Bang.
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>> 13.8 8 billion years ago, the universe
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ignites at a super hot ball of intense
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energy.
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Right after the Big Bang, there's a
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tremendous amount of energy. So much
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energy, in fact, that normal atoms can't
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exist.
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>> As that early energy starts to cool, it
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can start to form primitive matter.
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The universe takes that first matter and
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energy in the form of hydrogen atoms and
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starts the process of creating a super
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massive black hole. Step one, build
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giant stars.
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>> So, gravity brings together gas, dust,
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hydrogen, all of that stuff. And as the
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clouds become more dense, they attract
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even more material.
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>> As they spin, they get hotter and
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hotter. And as that temperature and
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pressure increase, finally it ignites
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nuclear fusion within the core and
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creates an actual star.
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These huge stars are like cosmic rock
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stars. They live fast and die young.
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When they die, they flame out in a huge
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explosion,
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a supernova.
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The entire star turns itself inside out
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and releases a shock wave going a good
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fraction of the speed of light and
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releases enough energy to just
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obliterate you.
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If the dying star is more than 15
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stellar masses, its core collapses into
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a black hole.
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>> It's kind of astounding what the
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universe is doing. It's taking
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incredibly simple things like hydrogen
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atoms and using gravity to ultimately
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bring all this stuff together and make
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things like black holes.
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>> I find it quite beautiful how our whole
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cosmic history is the story of little
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things coming together into bigger
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things.
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>> But these stellar mass black holes are
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tiny flyweights. To step up to the
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heavyweight division, they have to grow
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billions of times more massive. But how?
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>> How do black holes become super massive?
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This is the age-old question. We're not
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really sure.
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>> The current state-of-the-art
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understanding of how black holes become
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super massive is like uh we're confused.
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Really don't know.
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>> We still don't know exactly how they
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become so big.
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But we do know that the process involves
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ultraviolence, death, and destruction.
