NEW VIDEO! Spinning Black Holes! (Patreon)

Published:

2019-01-12 05:00:19

Imported:

2026-06

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What you don't see in the video is me interviewing the study's author (he was in a hotel room and the sound quality wasn't great) but I was delighted he took the time to talk to me. I also interviewed my General Relativity prof from the University of Sydney. He provided some much-needed perspective so I could make this video. It started out as a video about a discovery but I thought it was more valuable to express the state of the field. I hope I've captured that in this video. I spent a few sleep-deprived nights trying to get this out around the launch of the study but I still missed it by a couple of days.

Also important to note: a couple of the animations here are from NASA (and they're great) but most of them are custom animations by a new animator I've been working with. I think they're amazing. They are also time-consuming and expensive, so I wouldn't be able to make videos like this without your support. Thank you!

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Spinning Black Holes

A pulsing black hole in the centre of a distant galaxy sheds light on black hole and galaxy formation. How fast are black holes rotating and how does that rotation change over its life-span? Huge thanks to Prof. Geraint Lewis and study author Dr. Dheeraj Pasham. A loud quasi-periodic oscillation after a star is disrupted by a massive black hole https://ve42.co/pasham Special thanks to Patreon supporters: Donal Botkin, James M Nicholson, Michael Krugman, Nathan Hansen, Ron Neal, Stan Presolski, Terrance Shepherd Music from http://epidemicsound.com "Colorful animation 4" "serene story 2" "To the stars 01" "Black Vortex Animations by Alan Chamberlain and courtesy of NASA