3 Ridiculously Extreme Black Holes

Black holes are some of the most extreme astronomical objects out there, but there are some that really standout. Let s look at black holes that grow larger, consume more, and spin faster than the rest. Get 10% off today —WITH FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING—by going to http://ridge.com/SCISHOW and use code “SCISHOW” at check out. Host: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, 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: https://www.universetoday.com/143135/a-monster-black-hole-has-been-found-with-40-billion-times-the-mass-of-the-sun/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.10608.pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/423607/pdf https://futurism.com/ic-1101-the-largest-galaxy-ever-found https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/471/2/2321/3906599 https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/05/the-hungriest-black-hole-ever-detected-gobbles-a-sun-sized-star-every-two-days/ https://astrobites.org/2018/06/11/the-biggest-baddest-quasar-of-them-all/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/6FB5687AE7326F09557AD625C2889A0F/S132335801800022Xa.pdf/div-class-title-discovery-of-the-most-ultra-luminous-qso-using-span-class-italic-gaia-span-skymapper-and-wise-div.pdf https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/04/20/ask-ethan-how-can-a-black-holes-singularity-spin/#7b3a56bb22d9 https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2019/01/black-hole-spinning.page https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aae53b/meta ------- Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12854 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11086 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11206 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12005 https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1825b/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11482 https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1122c/ https://www.videoblocks.com/video/skater-performs-an-exercise-on-the-ice-rkqri-jbjiskbilqi https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1733i/ https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1907d/ https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1515a/