Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole
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http://www.ted.com With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe's most mysterious objects: black holes. She shares evidence that a supermassive black hole may be lurking at the center of the Milky Way. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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Andrea Ghez my story that you and those scientist are lying about what that black hole is. That object is our Creator and you are making lite of it. oh light is being made from the center and thats bull about light not escaping
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I believe that black holes 'save'
information that led to the formation and development of each galaxy, to
'update' subsequent the universe, maybe in the same way the human genetic
information is transmitted from one generation to the next. They also seem to
control how much a galaxy can expand in space. I read that low
mass, high metal stars may provide the best chances for locating rocky planets.
So it seems that there is a ’pattern’ already identified out in space. Maybe
each galaxy has a 'DNA’ . -
what does she mean when she says the black hole is on a diet?
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how big is schwarzschild radius for our whole universe ?
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Funny then properties of a Black are in a sense like that of Subatomic particles like Electron or Quark. How big is electron? Is electron like a charged sphere or a infinite point? Black hole is the only macroscopic phenomenon that has remarkable semblance to a Microscopic world, A quark or electron is like a black-hole with mass, spin and charge, hence it needs some esoteric physics. What really happens when u compress a finite mass into infinite small volume?? No one knows exactly.
At big bang all the matter in this universe was in a single spot, how come it did not collapse into a black hole and rather blew up with a bang?? -
The Bible says that only a fool can look at the heavens and say there is no GOD!!
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Most YouTube comments wouldn't pass the Turing test... ;-)
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There are simply no black holes...like there was never a big bang (debunked by non-cosmological red shift) ... I could go on and on. Person with no face telling me I don't want to see what can't be seen...ahahaha what a ridiculous joke you are and your argument.
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Frankly I couldn't care less if you believe in black holes or not. People also believe the earth was flat a few centuries ago. Also nobody believed we would be able to fly let along travel to space. There is no bigger blind that the one who doesn't want to see.
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Closer star to the super massive Black hole just discovered, only 11 years orbit.
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I Agree.
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This amazes me...especially those stars orbiting around something....obviously not visable. I wish I could start over again and spend my life doing something like this. All of the people that talk at TED obviously look forward to going to work everyday.
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god was it a fight to watch this.. but it was interesting.. not sure if it was worth hearing that nails-on-chalkboard voice though
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@mahingun Does she also give her course by talking non-stop for 1hour+ without ever breathing?
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I was sure she was going to die from asphyxiation during her talk... but she survived!
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get blunted and then listen to this...that was fucking epic.
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If your graduate students are in hawaii and you're at a conference...let me assure you that even if they are looking at the stars...they aren't doing that through two lenses...
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@devourerofbabies that is just nasty >.> ugliest MILF ever
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Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black cock
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