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How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an ...
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How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide?
We've never seen them directly...
yet we know they are there...
Lurking within dense star clusters...
Or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy....
Where they prey on stars...
Or swallow planets whole.
Our Milky Way may harbor millions of these black holes...
the ultra dense remnants of dead stars.
But now, in the universe far beyond our galaxy, there's evidence of something even more ominous...
A breed of black holes that have reached incomprehensible size and destructive power.
It has taken a new era in astronomy to find them...
High-tech instruments in space tuned to sense high-energy forms of light -- x-rays and gamma rays -- that are invisible to our eyes.
New precision telescopes equipped with technologies that allow them to cancel out the blurring effects of the atmosphere...
and see to the far reaches of the universe.
Peering into distant galaxies, astronomers are now finding evidence that space and time can be shattered by eruptions so vast they boggle the mind.
We are just beginning to understand the impact these outbursts have had on the universe around us.
That understanding recently took a leap forward.
A team operating at the Subaru Observatory atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano looked out to one of the deepest reaches of the universe...
And captured a beam of light that had taken nearly 13 billion years to reach us.
It was a messenger from a time not long after the universe was born.
They focused on an object known as a quasar... short for "quasi-stellar radio source."
It offered a stunning surprise...
A tiny region in its center is so bright that astronomers believe it's light is coming from a single object at least a billion times the mass of our sun...
Inside this brilliant beacon, space suddenly turns dark...
as it's literally swallowed by a giant black hole.
As strange as they may seem, even huge black holes like these are thought to be products of the familiar universe of stars and gravity.
They get their start in rare types of large stars... at least ten times the mass of our sun.
These giants burn hot and fast... and die young.
The star is a cosmic pressure-cooker. In its core, the crush of gravity produces such intense heat that atoms are stripped and rearranged.
Lighter elements like hydrogen and helium fuse together to form heavier ones like calcium, oxygen, silicon, and finally iron.
When enough iron accumulates in the core of the star, it begins to collapse under its own weight.
That can send a shock wave racing outward...
Literally blowing the star apart:...
a supernova.
At the moment the star dies, if enough matter falls into its core, it collapses to a point, forming a black hole.
Intense gravitational forces surround that point with a dark sphere... the event horizon... beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.
That's how an average-size black hole forms.
What about a monster the size of the Subaru quasar?
Recent discoveries about the rapid rise of these giant black holes have led theorists to rethink their view of cosmic history.
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Footage from The Downfall (2004), Copyright © 2004 Constantin Film AG, portions published under Fair Use, Title 17, U.S.C., Section 107.
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We've received a takedown notice on YouTube.
They've pulled your covers of
Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.
Universal claims that YouTube removals
aren't covered by any law.
They have an agreement with Google allowing
them to remove any video without a reason.
That's fine, they're still up on my Lady GaGa fan site.
My Führer...
SOPA...
SOPA will likely pass and become law.
Universal could take down the site as well.
Everyone from
China, Syria, Iran... get out.
How could this even be up for a vote!?
Why isn't this on every front page of a newspaper!?
First the U.S. Supreme Court
says corporations are people.
Now corporations can censor people...
George Orwell is rolling over in his grave!
It's been almost two decades.
The MPAA/RIAA still haven't figured out the Internet.
Piracy is a service problem.
The way to defeat piracy is to
provide a better service than the pirates.
Not take a shit on the First Amendment!
My Führer, content creators have been
losing billions to piracy ever since the VCR.
You don't get to destroy the Internet
because it doesn't fit your business model!
My Führer, they're only going
after rogue offshore sites.
Then why is the language so vague
that anything could be copyright infringement?
Even Wikipedia would be infringing.
All that it takes is a link in the user comments
of your blog to something Viacom thinks they own
...and the whole site can get taken down
without anyone even checking if it's actually infringing.
How am I supposed to whine about a PSN outage
when Sony claims that mentioning their trademark is illegal!?
The only way you could contest one of these gangster seizures
is by going to court after you've already been shut down.
Is that what the Internet has come to?
I refuse to be shaken down for protection money
just to keep my domain safe from the copyright cartel.
The economy is in the toilet...
Congress wants to cripple the only medium
that's consistently creating jobs and growth.
It all comes down to money.
You need a thousand people pissed off
just to balance out one dollar that a politician raises.
How are a bunch of old people,
most of whom don't even use the Internet, regulating it!?
You could get five years in jail
just for linking to a clip of Colbert.
I don't see congressmen going to jail
for voting on something they haven't read.
For accepting money to let
companies dictate legislation!
Don't cry,
Disney owns the rights to that emotion.
Imagine this happened 15 years ago.
There'd be no Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter.
No memes....
The Internet is lost.
It was supposed to be a vast network of
infinite human knowledge, expression, and creativity.
Now it's censored to catch pirates,
who will get around it anyway.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
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