Infinite Minute #7: M104, The Sombrero Galaxy Contains the Largest, Closest Black Hole

[luisr12491]

Sombrrero galaxy huh?.....Is that where Mexican aliens came from?

[Durni96]

@vibol03 It's the unit in witch astronomers messure brightness, the scale is reversed and logarithmic. The brighter the object, the smaller the magnitude. 0 is the magnitude of vega (one of the brightest stars in the sky), objects with a magnitude up to 6 you can see with the naked eye.

[vibol03]

can someone explain to me what magnitude is?

[yeahfree]

I can get there... In my dreams ;-/)))

[shadows987987]

@puff420x

Black Holes also twist time itself.

[MyMIXmedia]

I love the sombrero galaxy, its the best looking galaxy ever. Its ball, rim shape.

[mufasaisbeastt]

1000km/second.. we'll never get there :( stupid dark matter

[paroutdiok]

Thumbs up if you were somehow brought here by 9gag!

[topdr1960]

Thank you!

[2MorrowsFuture]

jk just an imaginary what if!?

[2MorrowsFuture]

I live in the Milky Way , MY brother lives in the Andromeda Galaxy my Sister lives in Sombrero Galaxy and My GOD lives in IC1011

[chestypants78]

It's all in the voice. 

[KevinsHope]

Love it. Keep doing the infinite minute, Sir.



[arvidmr]

Very nice video but you should raise the middle frequency of the voice of the speak so if it don't sound like a disco music. BTW where do you got that sombrero?

[infinitenight2093]

...takes my breath away...

[timejiff]

Where does all the material go that is sucked into a black hole, anyone?

[RSKullcrusha]

@timejiff It  is crushed infinitely inside the singularity that lies inside the event horizon.

[yatter1]

@timejiff Walmart

[bigpoppaike6]

@timejiff im not fully qualified to answer you exactly but ive seen with quasars the black hole burns out massive radiation flares out of each side of the black hole, but i dont know if every black hole does this my guess is it just crushes everything into nothing

[PSNDaSingh]

At times don't you feel like listening to prog music and float through the cosmos free of physical sense and stress.

[branson2301]

@PSNDaSingh matter does not exist as such thing, it is energy condensed into a slow vibration gaining mass while it's bosons travel through higgs field and homogenity through still unknown force/glue/field/whatever. That is why we percieve this energy as matter. Falling into a black hole means that "matter" looses it's dimensional properties from this universe and creates another one within a black hole. but don't try to understand that. God knows i don't.

[elbabun]

What a great tribute to M104! I would have loved to see mini-intros to many other wonderful galaxies out there!

[Peggenhetti]

Thank you, Tdarnell!

[bygota]

Great post, as always ;)

[toulouse666]

This really puts the "Super" into "Super Massive Black Hole"! ;)

Awesome video as usual BTW.

[par0z]

Are all of the individual stars in this image in the Milky Way?

[danielbluesmoke]

So what's the closest large galaxy to us? Other then Andromeda.

[jaybow1982]

@danielbluesmoke Other than Andromeda, I think it's the Triangulum galaxy

[TrillianAlice]

Just breathtaking and beautiful. The size of the Universe never ceases to amaze me. I am just in awe and loved the music, also.

[nickharvey7]

Beautiful!

[questionsleadtotruth]

Are blackholes gateways to other universes?

[smartzazi]

@questionsleadtotruth Are our souls going there to be transferred to other worlds?

[asuka33221109]

That is absolutely mesmerizing.

[stefaandk]

Seen it all before, heard it all before and yes I love hearing it again!! Talking cosmology just never gets old!

[jzmanconnect]

Youtube sucks.. cant even play the video.

[dopehousex3]

Brilliant

[mercop14]

Love what you do Tony...next best thing to Sagan!

[MMOLegend]

Not sure if this is a stupid question but how is there a black hole there with so much light? sorry im an amateur at this stuff but find it very fascinating

[JackyRBKwan]

@MMOLegend you cannot see a black hole with visible light as light cannot escape black holes. The bright light in the center of the galaxy are millions if not billions of stars tightly packed together

[Holgmeister]

If all galaxies are traveling away from each other, how come we are on a collision course with the andromeda galaxy?

[fukkuutube]

@Holgmeister some are rushing away some are moving closer. in infared i believe blue means its moving close and red means its moving away

[RenderedTV]

WOOOOW! You're such a great teacher of science. It's amazing how I'm subscribed to you for the enjoyment and factor of interest in watching this video and at the same time, I'm learning so much <3

[wsmkthtksh]

amazing

[ashkibala1]

does this channel work with SpaceRip or is it an independent channel? great videos, thanks

[IudiciumInfernalum]

@ashkibala1 Independant.

[alfonzie]

all the numbers made me dizzy 

[evoGage]

Just amazing! Thanks Tony.

[kurtilein3]

one (maybe) last note on the metric vs. imperial-discussion: Light-years are totally fine, i like them. Distances in spacetime can be given in space or time, as these two are essentially the same, lightyears are a good unit for very long distances and at the same time drive home a little lesson about general relativity. And even if the lightyear is not a metric unit, the second is one, and the speed of light is a very important natural constant.

[robertghouston]

I now know what your narration voice sounds like, Tony: a white Morgan Freeman!

[leydemurphy]

Grande Tony Darnell!!! Eres nuestro referente...

[foudaization]

oh amazing video!!! hope to visit this part of universe!!!

[Neueregel]

@foudaization Forget it. A trip there requires at least 30 million human lifetimes

[bicnarok]

Excellent video, you certainly show your love for the subject which I also share.

The "Black hole" in the middle of the galaxy doesn´t look very black to me:)

[WatchmenDrManhattan]

its interesting to think that it could be teaming white life that is looking up & asking its self if there is any out there.

[Hopefulfilment]

Is it dust and gas surrounding it that gives it that luminescent glow, or is it actually stars to? Thanks for these videos!

[metalfiend82]

@Hopefulfilment

the dust and gas does not illuminate its self so yes :)

[Hopefulfilment]

@metalfiend82 Hey are you trolling me? :) I thought it was quite obvious from my questioning that I didn't think it illuminated itself (especially not with 800 billion stars nearby), but you have to know that gas and dust can reflect light sent out by stars, right? If it in fact is stars I would say it should be classified as a elliptical galaxy and not spiral as stated here. Maybe it's a bit of both (type S0). I thought in my stupidity that it was a legitimate question...

[kittysparkleeyes]

I love your videos, and you have the perfect voice for narration. So inspirational!

[NorthernStarLights]

Love your videos man! Thank you very much :)

[sugarcanegray]

inspiring stuff! thanks for constantly showing us how amazing our universe is.

[valeriek7b]

Tony, hats off to you for continuing your 'Infinite Minute' series & the effort you put in for our viewing pleasure! As always, I can't get enough of YOU. You are indeed an enigmatic storyteller of the stars & heavens! Beautiful graphics (so sharp),the music, your voice, the mind boggling distances & scale, well these combined, put me in a weekly daze that I now crave! A big THANK YOU for sharing with us the 'Sombrero Galaxy',makes me want to buy a Hubble calendar & view it on my wall daily LOLV

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

Nice work Tony.

Thanks for this.

[Puchicas9]

Thank you, Tony. When I need a way to escape the folly of our lives "crawling between heaven and earth" (Hamlet, Act III, scene 1), revelations like these of the wonders of the heavens are among my favorites.

[Dzaal17]

Love the vid, and the channel! Thanks so much! Happy large bird day!

[XXXPopeBenedictXVI]

I wonder what the view from one of those globular clusters must be like.

[peyo001]

As ever fantastic!!

I downloaded that Album (Zero Project) after the last video you made using it. it is fantastic!

[bappo456]

TY!!

[spiralcore]

I love your choice of music whenever you make these kinds of videos.

[ReeseMac]

If you stare at the image long enough.....you'll see George Jetson wizzing by in his flying car.

[ReeseMac]

I'm not surprised that you'd dedicate a whole video to this image. The image is rather sharp and you can see depth & contrast. Its one of the best images captured by Hubble. Its a fantastic picture with terrific detail. You feel as if you can reach out and touch it.

[david25luvit]

I understand the concept of red shifting....but is it possible we're the ones traveling away from those distant galaxies? Also I understand The Andromeda galaxy is coming towards us......can we tell whether or not we're moving toward it? I've read we're racing towards each other at high velocities....if that's true won't we meet somewhere in the middle somewhere round a million years from now?

[EraiGhaell]

@david25luvit True, relative to them, our own galaxy is the one that is travelling away: distances between all (distant) objects are constantly increasing.

The Andromeda Galaxy, however, is indeed racing towards us, and will collide with ours (within several billions of years).

By the way, as it happens, Recently, Tony posted a blog that may be relevant to your question :)

blog[dot]deepastronomy[dot]com­/2011/11/in-expanding-universe­-why-do-galaxies.html

[Squagnut]

@david25luvit The problem with your question is that it assumes there's a static point of reference. The universe is expanding, but massive objects are attracted by gravity. M104 is going away from us from our POV, and we're going away from it from its POV. We say that it's going away from us because we are here and it is there - it's just an understandable way of putting it, but really there is no standard point of reference.

[Kariakas]

Nice video, thanks for the upload. The black hole at the center of this galaxy seems to be very bright, I'm guessing it's actively feeding a lot. Is it projected that eventually the super massive black holes at the centers of galaxies will end up consuming the rest of the matter that makes up the galaxy and end up being just a rogue black hole? I know the time frame would be huge but do the arms or rings of a galaxy maintain a steady orbit or are they being drawn into the middle?

[Lukeschedel]

=D

[PalmTrall]

My soul mate lives in the Sombrero Galaxy.

[sentrygunner]

@PalmTrall nice how long does it take to talk to him 3,000 years?

[piranha031091]

You kept "M107" in the title at the beginning of the video instead of M104!

Nevertheless, still breathtaking, as usual. Keep up the good work

[ricois3]

Keep them coming, well keep looking up.

[gbu111]

Another great video. Is that really the closest black hole though?

[menthol5]

Shouldn't a big black-hole have an accretion disk with the jets coming off it? Maybe it needs to be close to a food source?

[WILDLEGHORN]

My good man, keep up this good work : )

[006JoeS]

:) Good man. What a quick fix! 

[smartzazi]

@ 0:32 our whole earth with everything on it would make a very verry small particle dust in that perfect creation. oh the creator of all of that, the most beautiful and brilliant all is yours, show us the path..

[Xellith]

@smartzazi dont start.

[finalfrontier001]

@smartzazi

are you saying tdarnell is god ....? how stupid of you

[smartzazi]

@finalfrontier001 ...how's starcraft going with you?

[finalfrontier001]

@smartzazi

GREAT .... oh yeah i go college and i do A levels and im a genius especially quantum physics :) too EZ and Wave lengths ...... SC2 is going awesome im in master league xD YEAH !

[finalfrontier001]

@smartzazi

you're muslim so am i i got pissed i miss read you're comment xD LOL

[idealdistribution]

Beautiful..poetic...sublime..

[Adamas97]

So this galaxy is about half the size of our galaxy?

BTW, beautiful video.

[tdarnell]

@Adamas97 Yes, and it's more massive.

[AgrivatedKillah]

I watched the original video ;)

I heard 28 million miles and was like woah that has to be off.. lol but we all make mistakes... you're awesome regardless

[tdarnell]

@AgrivatedKillah Yes, I couldn't leave that up. What an error. Ugh. In my defense though, the script did say light-years, I just can't read.

[AgrivatedKillah]

@tdarnell Don't sweat it lol, it's a simple mistake...

loved the video.