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Ready to meet a black hole? Join Vincent on an adventure out into the universe to meet some of the most incredible & powerful black holes ever discovered! We’ll meet the closest black hole, the smallest and largest known black holes, a mis-match binary black hole, a rogue black hole and more! Black Holes Included: Phoenix A*, UHZ1, Gaia BH1, OGLE-2011-BLG-0462, H1743-322, IGR J17091, GW 190521 and GW190412
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In the deepest, darkest reaches of space, Where you can’t see
No matter, no light can ever escape from their gravity
They’re darkness itself, you cannot hide
When a star goes supernova, They’re what’s left behind
One star’s life ends and their life begins
They consume everything around them by pulling it in
CHORUS: Let’s go Meet a Black Hole
Once they have a hold on you, they never let go
Come and meet a black hole
What lies beyond them, nobody knows
I’m Gaia BH1 the closest known black hole to your solar system
About 1560 Light Years away in the Ophiucus constellation
I’m a stellar mass black hole, about 9 times the mass of your Sun
I’m practically invisible, except I give myself away by causing a wobble in my companion
One of the smallest black holes found IGR J17091 that’s me
In a binary system, Scientists call my unique x-ray pattern my “Heartbeat”
Less than 3 times the mass of your sun, But I’m still a fierce little beast
With some of the fastest winds observed in a stellar-mass black hole, up to 20 million mph at least
I’m a sharp-shooter black hole, I don’t just draw matter in, but I shoot it out too
A stellar mass black hole named H1743-322
I pull matter off my companion star, then spit some back like gigantic gas bullets
These bullets move at nearly a quarter the speed of light, but I’m far (28,000 Light years) away so they’re not a threat
I’m a rogue black hole, roaming free through the Milky Way
I’m called OGLE-2011-BLG-0462 and I’m looking for fresh prey
I’m completely isolated, and dark with no accretion disc because there is nothing around to feed me
I likely got a kick when my star went supernova, and sent me hurtling through the galaxy
I’m a rare intermediate black (having a mass between 100-100,000 suns) hole named GW190521
Formed when 2 smaller stellar mass black holes merged, I’m about 142 times the mass of your sun
The gravitational waves from my merge washed over Earth in 2019
I’m proof that black holes between stellar mass and supermassive exist, I’m the link that was missing
CHORUS
Only a few main parts make up a black hole’s anatomy
The point at the center where the star collapsed is called the Singularity
This point has infinite gravity and mass density
Where the laws of physics change and space-time curves infinitely
The event horizon is the point of no return
The edge where once crossed not even light can escape or burn
Its circumference is around the singularity
The gravity’s too strong here, nothing can reach escape velocity
The Ergosphere is the space outside the event horizon
Where the gravity pulls all objects in that region into motion
Objects here can no longer stay stationary or still,
But they could still escape, if they had the will
The disk around the black hole made up of stellar objects, gas and debris
Is called the accretion disk, and is the only way to see
Past the event horizon, the center is pure darkness
The disk disappears when there is nothing left to consume, all that’s left is blackness
The singularity’s gravity is so strong that It distorts time
It’s a very weird anomaly that will totally blow your mind
From an observer far away time appears to go slower
CHORUS
At the center of many galaxies, is where they will be
Supermassive black holes with their extreme gravity
Millions to billions times more massive than our Sun
Growing larger and larger with every consumption
Colossal and Powerful there’s no stopping them
They consume everything around them by pulling it in
I’m known as GW190412
Not a single black hole, I’m a binary or two
The first merge of two black holes of very different masses found
With my larger black hole likely being the product of another merge before no
One of the oldest, most distant supermassive black holes ever discovered I’m UHZ1
13.2 Billion light years away and at least 10 million times the mass of your Sun
The gas around me emits x-rays, a tell-tale sign of a growing supermassive black hole
I existed when the universe was very young, How I grew so big right after the Big Bang, No one knows
I’m known as Phoenix A*, a Supermassive Black Hole, one of the largest discovered yet
I have an Active Galactic Nucleus and a powerful ejection jet
Even Larger than TON 618, I’m Estimated to be over 100 Billion times the mass of your sun
I actually stimulate star formation around me, more for me to feed upon
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