Chandra Discovers "Baby" Black Hole Neighbor

[9999ssjvegeta]

In the early times the astronomers thought that a supernova was a new star. That's why they called it nova. Nova means New in Greek but the name stuck. So pretty much every time we say supernova, we say supernew.

[thegreeensky]

awesome.. but a bit worried... is it good or something.. :l

[xXUfOHUNTERSWEDENxX]

like RIHANNA - BLACK HOLE

[IdolbiOK]

Freakin' awesome!

[xen423]

Just call me when the nearest star going supernova is going to happen, I want to get a good tan for the summer.

[aliengoth]

Definitely got a bad feeling about this.

[QuestionTheSystem]

did he say 30 years old?

[Tekjammin]

@QuestionTheSystem

30 years old from our perspective, it's 50 million light years away so it's actually 50 million+30 years old.

[chica2030]

do we have to be worried....nope, or... not yet...but what wonderful they discovered this hahahahahahaha

[LTmarmoset3000]

Why was my comment removed? o.O

[LokoMn]

we are comming from this black hole-Green Alien :)

[IgorGetmann]

You can Smile, you can roar with laughter - BUT this Object as Black-hole is Reality!

If You don't trying to understand - its Your Problem.

The life is NOT of cake and ale (... and wine, sex-babes, smoking, drinking ..)

[healthhavencom]

The largest Black Hole ever discovered is NASA.

[rdecaserio]

Well I guest even bacteria has his end!!!!!

[strongbowblade]

but if its in another galaxy it wont be 30 years old

[DeadJiana]

@strongbowblade They probably mean relative to the distance... as in, we are seeing it at 30 years old.

[ugs18]

Awesome space sounds at the end

[frohman101]

Oh, the commentary ends so abruptly. Please tell us more next time.

[perrin6]

MANY HAPPY RETURNS, Mr Black hole - 30 years old today, I remember when I was 30, people told me to stop eating stars as 'you'll get fat', don't listen to them, it's not true, and anyway it's not as if you need a girlfriend or anything, So just let your hair down, the universe is your oyster.

[valixxx]

what i don`t understand is why nasa before the black hole anouncement says that they will anounce us about an important "object" they found..

black hole is NOT an object.. and they knew about it 30 yers ago!

[Tounushi]

@valixxx

The singularity IS an object. The event horizon (which we understand as the "surface" of a black hole) is an associated structure.

[Helge129]

@valixxx If a Black Hole isn't an object, what is it then? *facepalm*

[moonasha]

@valixxx actually it is... it's a singularity. Sooo many dumb comments on this vid :|

[maksphoto78]

LOL at his voice!

[MikeFromCA]

hahahahahah I'm laying in bed and I keep laughing at this guys voice....hahahahahaha oh man.

[MikeFromCA]

why does this narrator have to have such a nerdy voice? We need to make science cool again...have Morgan Freeman narrat these or something...and if I misspelled any words it's because I'm tried and probably just made a typo

[oopsidunitagain76]

Who's a little black hole? Who's a little black hole? -- You're a little black hole... oooh, you're soo cute.

[jblev2]

Check out my vid, I did a full coverage of Nasa's press conference on SN1979C and the back info on the "baby" black hole.

[logolou]

Ummm, are we gonna get sucked into this black hole?

[SteveSparx]

@logolou only if you buy it dinner

[ceridan01]

@logolou of course not its in another galaxy

[fallbread]

cool 

[BADBOYCH]

Did the announcer get to close to the event horizon?

[ufoolable]

Cat got his tongue at 34 secs

[1113stve]

Well let's do a barrel roll and that should get us everything we need

[BlueGlowingLight4]

did my sound cut out or did they just run out of stuff to say at the end?

[CaNaDiiAnBaCoN]

@BlueGlowingLight4 na they just ran out.

[enlightendbel]

Ehm, if the galaxy is 50 Million Light Years away, the Black Hole is about the same distance.

Wouldn't that then kinda push a person to think the black hole was at least 50 Million years old? Or did we descover a detection method faster then the speed of light while I was playing WoW just now :p

[xxSilverPhinxx]

@enlightendbel

I'm not sure, but I think they meant 50 million (to use your example) plus 30 years, as in seeing the black hole when it was around 30 years old and not 30 years ago.

[enlightendbel]

@xxSilverPhinxx Yeah, I know, but I expect a bit clearer and accurate relaying of information from something like Nasa TV :p

If a lay person sees this, who hasn't a clue about the relation between light years and age, they'd think the black hole would really be 30 years old. While its well over 50 Million years old by now.

And yeah, I might have said it a bit feisty, am sick, makes me an ass :p

[xxSilverPhinxx]

@enlightendbel

Yeah you have a point there - I guess the experts at NASA sometimes forget that others don't know what they do.

Though for the topic, it's actually irrelevant. He said that it was a chance to observe a young black hole, as as long as the image of a young black hole reaches Earth for them to study, it doesn't really matter how old it is now truly.

[gjozefi]

@enlightendbel Well to us the black hole is 50 million years old plus 30 because of the distance between us and the black hole. So basically were looking at a 30 year old black hole as it was 50 million years ago.