The Biggest Water Reservoir in Space
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In the late 2000s, scientists looking deep into space discovered the largest known water reservoir in the universe inside a quasar, orbiting a supermassive black hole. Learn more about quasars and what this water can tell us about the early universe in this episode of SciShow Space! Hosted by: Reid Reimers ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Accalia Elementia, Kathy & Tim Philip, Kevin Bealer, Justin Lentz, Fatima Iqbal, Thomas J., Chris Peters, Tim Curwick, Lucy McGlasson, Andreas Heydeck, Will and Sonja Marple, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Charles George, Christopher Collins, and Patrick D. Ashmore. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/apm_082795255_largest_water_mass_universe_so_far-81124 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/741/2/L37/meta http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/apm08279/ http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/universe20110722.html http://www.space.com/17262-quasar-definition.html Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Eastern_Hemisphere.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vesta_rgb_20110724_0835.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet_67P_on_19_September_2014_NavCam_mosaic.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_Valles_Marineris.jpeg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NH-Pluto-color-NewHorizons-20150713.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_rendering_ULAS_J1120%2B0641.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_rendering_ULAS_J1120%2B0641.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BH_LMC.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PKS_1127-145_X-rays.jpg http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/universe20110722-image.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lynx_IAU.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyn.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_dust_formation_around_a_supernova_explosion.jpg
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Giant black hole sucking everything in around it surrounded by crap tons of water?
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I wonder how shocked people would be if the found a star that can fuse iron.
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imagine the star that left that behind.
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I'm not going to argue against elements being forged inside stars, but I WILL argue against hydrogen being the ONLY molecule to form immediately after the big bang. If all of the matter in the universe was still so hot that atoms couldn't stay together, only to cool later and form hydrogen, wouldn't that mean that everything should still be hot enough to vigorously form and reform into some of the other atoms as well? Obviously lead would need the universe to cool a lot first, but something that is only 8 times heavier that hydrogen should surely be able to form. After all, wouldn't the entire universe basically be like a giant, rapidly scattering star in its early days?
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Would we be able to transport some of that water on earth, and would humans be able to drink it?
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Are galaxies technically quasars
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wait wait wait, so Quasors are remnants of dead Galaxies that some how end up close to the center, inside living Galaxies??
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But scientists found a planet with nothing but liquid water with a tightly compacted ice core. How are we the only planet?
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This guys voice is so satisfying to listen to.
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Can We MAke Artificial Water?
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So... You're saying we need an intergalactic gravitational straw? Get on that Elon.
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Just a thought.. If these scientists were able to collect data from these objects that are 12 billion light years away, why can't they look further away for older things to see where the limit is? I assume this would say something about the age of the universe after the big bang?
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if oxygen hadn't been formed by that time then how did so much of water vapour exist 12 billion years ago?
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Where water comes from:It starts circling around the quasar, then gets fed through the black portal hole thingy and gets distributed around the universe.
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So it probably doesn't exist anymore...
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I am glad you did mention how we are looking into the past and we are seeing but an ancient image of a quasar which is most likely no longer there.
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If it's 12 billion light years away, how do they know it's water?
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So much water. It feels like a waste if it's all sucked into a black hole, even though it's so far away it's practically unreachable and useless...
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This video made me feel ridiculously insignificant...
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