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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about wandering or rogue super massive black holes traveling between galaxies
Previous videos:
youtube.com/watch?v=2imlUyTyJD4
youtube.com/watch?v=eRTw2am7TdI
Links:
"A Wandering 35,000-Solar-Mass Black Hole Fed by a Gravitational Wake, arxiv.org/abs/2608.10719"
"NASA's Swift Sees 'Wandering' Mega Black Hole Shredding Star, science.nasa.gov/missions/swift/nasas-swift-sees-wandering-mega-black-hole-shredding-star/"
"The Astrophysical Journal Letters paper describing TDE 2025abcr on the outskirts of a galaxy, iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae77f3"
"Progenitor of the Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole RBH-1 Identified Using HST and JWST Imaging, arxiv.org/abs/2601.18986"
"JWST Observations of the Double Nucleus in NGC 4486B: Possible Evidence for a Recent Binary SMBH Merger and Recoil, doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ae52ef"
"BlackTHUNDER: Evidence of three massive black holes in a z ∼ 5 galaxy, dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202557419"
#blackhole #astrophysics #galaxies
0:00 Wandering black hole phenomenon
1:50 Recent discovery of a triple black hole system
4:30 How did this form?
5:55 A black hole that ate a star
8:50 Stellar stream in the Milky Way
10:25 Wandering intermediate black hole that's forming a trail
13:45 Implications and conclusions
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads)
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about wandering or rogue super massive black holes traveling between galaxies
Previous videos:
youtube.com/watch?v=2imlUyTyJD4
youtube.com/watch?v=eRTw2am7TdI
Links:
"A Wandering 35,000-Solar-Mass Black Hole Fed by a Gravitational Wake, arxiv.org/abs/2608.10719"
"NASA's Swift Sees 'Wandering' Mega Black Hole Shredding Star, science.nasa.gov/missions/swift/nasas-swift-sees-wandering-mega-black-hole-shredding-star/"
"The Astrophysical Journal Letters paper describing TDE 2025abcr on the outskirts of a galaxy, iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae77f3"
"Progenitor of the Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole RBH-1 Identified Using HST and JWST Imaging, arxiv.org/abs/2601.18986"
"JWST Observations of the Double Nucleus in NGC 4486B: Possible Evidence for a Recent Binary SMBH Merger and Recoil, doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ae52ef"
"BlackTHUNDER: Evidence of three massive black holes in a z ∼ 5 galaxy, dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202557419"
#blackhole #astrophysics #galaxies
0:00 Wandering black hole phenomenon
1:50 Recent discovery of a triple black hole system
4:30 How did this form?
5:55 A black hole that ate a star
8:50 Stellar stream in the Milky Way
10:25 Wandering intermediate black hole that's forming a trail
13:45 Implications and conclusions
Enjoy and please subscribe
Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow!
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The hardware used to record these videos:
New Camera: amzn.to/4pCVINS
CPU: amzn.to/4qXIaxC
Video Card: amzn.to/2M1W26C
Motherboard: amzn.to/2JYGiQQ
RAM: amzn.to/2Mwy2t4
PSU: amzn.to/2LZcrIH
Case: amzn.to/2MwJZz4
Microphone: amzn.to/2t5jTv0
Mixer: amzn.to/2JOL0oF
Recording and Editing: amzn.to/2LX6uvU
Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid.
Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel
Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships
Credit:
Mark Garlick markgarlick.com
Licenses used:
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
and relevant Creative Commons licenses
