The Milky Way May Have a Disk of Black Holes

Computer models are helping scientists on the hunt for small black holes and new data is giving us a better understanding of the universe’s largest explosions. For special, curated artifacts of this universe, check out https://scishowfinds.com/ ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- 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: Black Holes: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.101101 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/04/599437677/new-study-shows-the-center-of-the-milky-way-has-thousands-of-black-holes https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25029 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aacb34 http://chandra.harvard.edu/learn_bh.html http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/770/2/148/ https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/giant-black-hole-pair-photobombs-andromeda-galaxy.html http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/317837 https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/milky-way-houses-up-to-100-million-black-holes-with-big-implications-for-ligo-2f691be6a876 https://www.iflscience.com/space/cosmic-collisions-have-created-rings-of-extreme-black-holes-in-galaxies/ Supernovas: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0563-4 https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05657 https://www.futurity.org/supernova-shock-breakout-amateur-astronomer-1688682-2/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01293 https://www.universetoday.com/24731/red-supergiant-star/ https://www.newsweek.com/astronomers-catch-glimpse-what-happens-just-violent-death-star-1110957 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/Kepler/caught-for-the-first-time-the-early-flash-of-an-exploding-star https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/basic-space/supernova-turns-inside-out-and-kicks-neutron-star/ https://www.space.com/6638-supernova.html https://www.nature.com/physics/looking-back/bahcall/index.html https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612072 -------- Images: https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA12348.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20228 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hoag%27s_object.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11447 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11447 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/Kepler/caught-for-the-first-time-the-early-flash-of-an-exploding-star https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA17838.html https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0515a/