What Saturn’s Rings Tell Us About Its Soupy Core

This episode is sponsored by Endel, an app that creates personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax and sleep.The first 100 people to sign up here get a one week free trial: https://app.adjust.com/b8wxub6?campaign=scishowspace_august&adgroup=youtube The insides of the our gas giant friend, Saturn, might be less of a mystery now that we’ve figured out how to use its rings to indicate its internal makeup. And the light emitted from some very old, very hungry black holes could be giving us a new way to measure some of the heaviest objects in space. Hosted By: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: GrowingViolet & Jason A Saslow! ---------- 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: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01448-3 https://authors.library.caltech.edu/109256/3/2104.13385.pdf] https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/saturn-makes-waves-in-its-own-rings https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/16/1031996/saturn-core-insides-sloshing-rings-cassini/ https://baas.aas.org/pub/2020n6i513p06/release/1 https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6702?context=astro-ph https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6556/789 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/924988 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/924845 Image Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_during_Equinox.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/structure-core-earth-structure-layers-of-the-earth-the-structure-of-the-earths-crust-gm962321406-262821721 https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/22118/insight-on-mars/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/gas-giants-form-quickly-artist-concept https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-juno-mission-prepares-for-december-11-jupiter-flyby https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia14944.html https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/17849/translucent-arcs/?category=planets_saturn https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/13904/saturns-outer-c-ring/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/17631/saturn-interior-cutaway-illustration/ https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/saturn-makes-waves-in-its-own-rings https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/found-most-distant-black-hole https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21086/galaxy-ngc-1448-with-active-galactic-nucleus https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13326 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/new-nasa-visualization-probes-the-light-bending-dance-of-binary-black-holes https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_468.html https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/black_hole_description.html