Furious Boiling of Betelgeuse // Robot-Surgeon on the ISS // Biggest Black Holes Ever Seen 

So happy for Dr Kipping and his team. Hopefully they find what they're looking for.

I absolutely love red giant simulations. It’s so cool how they’re basically big puffy clouds that are almost blowing themselves apart. I wish we had similar simulations of other extreme kinds of stars.

One of the reasons why a lot of scientists DON'T think Betelgeuse is ready to blow soon is the fact that while the visible light went through a couple of really dramatic changes, the infrared light signature changed almost not at all. This is how they eventually determined that most of the light curve we all saw was due to dust blocking the star's light, and not anything catastrophic going on inside. =)

Great video and congrats to Dr. Kipping for well deserved JWST time!!!!

Years ago, I saw giant stars modeled as these boiling bubbly things, but every time I tried to look up more information on it, I came up empty handed. Stars are pretty much always represented as near-perfect spheres, even though we now know they aren't like that.

I love how you can see betelgeuse reflected in your eyes in the thumbnail. Nice touch.

Man we gotta get Kipping back on after his data gets sorted!!!

I am so happy for Cool Worlds too, exciting to hear when their results come in.....thanks Mr Cain. So good.

Life on Earth emerged without oxygen, and when cyanobacteria began to produce it, they caused a mass extinction. Low oxygen isn't necessarily a bad thing for primitive life on Europa, but it might make multicellular life difficult.

I'm really happy for David Kipping. I've been watching his RU-vid channel Cool Worlds for a couple years now and he's done an amazing job at explaining what a big deal it will be to finally detect exomoons. When the first exoplanets were discovered in the 90s it opened the door to an entire new branch of astronomy, and now we're in a golden age of exoplanet hunting, so exomoons could be that next big breakthrough. I really hope he is able to confirm at LEAST one exomoon with JWST and gets a Nobel prize fore doing so. He's earned it.

I binged watched a dozen older episodes and have to give you an ATTA boy! Your content gets better and be

Thank you for all you do , Fraser! I appreciate you very much.

The LIFE telescope derserves an award for that acronym.

I"m delighted to have found this channel!! Priceless.

Omg, that Space Telescope Live site rules. Reminds me of DSN Now, where you can see what the Deep Space Network is talking too.

Thank you Fraser your videos are so informative and interesting :)

Thank you Frasier for the update

another awesome video. thank you fraser.

I love your channel! Definitely one of my favorites! Going to check out your interview with Kipping (Cool Worlds is an awesome channel too!).

If blackholes have interacting electromagnetic fields, then you may have something that bridges that Final Parsec Problem area. Even them both emitting Hawking radition may have something to do with it, if the mechanism proposed with that for expanding spacetime could end up interacting in a weird way... 2 things emitting things that are trying to spread out...

cheers from Toronto thanks Fraser.

Saw your interview with Dr Kipping and so stoked to hear that the Cool Worlds team got the telescope time👍

Mind-blowing content. per usual

Christ that thing is boiling ANGRILY

nice work. first time here, nice to listen. thx.

Why am I just now finding this channel. I nerd pretty hard, glad I finally got here.

Yes, excited for Dr. Kipping too.

thanks very much fc and for the podcast too. Night night🌙

That real time tracking for webb and hubble is AMAZING. I'm absolutely going to observe the same thing at the same time whenever the opportunity strikes 😂 My 10" dob is no match lol

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

Fortunately, Betelgeuse's 650 light years away from our home planet Earth.

Back when gravitational waves from merging black holes were discovered, I read that huge amounts of mass are converted to energy in the making of those waves. Why wouldn't the weaker gravitational waves created by the black holes play a role during the final parsec in bleeding off orbital velocity?

Congratulations to Dr Kipping and team!

Amazing the possibility to follow live the great telescopes observations !!

Definitely looking forward to marcus and scott coming on after starship launch.

Yayyy one of my fav Space fellas Dr. Kipping !! I saw his vid on him feeling down about being denied earlier and his pursuit of exomoons so this is super cool.

Interesting theory about Betelgeuse. The pulsations observed, Betelgeuse... another sign that the star is entering the final stages before the supernova explosion and can no longer effectively counteract the force of gravity. Combining all these observations, we can deduce with reasonable certainty that Betelgeuse is now in a very advanced pre-supernova stage. The extreme surface turbulence, together with the pulsations are the preludes to the final gravitational collapse of the depleted core and the subsequent supernova explosion. It would be interesting--I say, interesting--to visualize on a graph the number of neutrinos released by Betelgeuse to have a greater comparison on internal conditions. Should I venture from the latest data? Ten years at most, but it could happen tomorrow for all we know. Anyway, fantastic these episodes, love to see.

I'm happy for Kipping and exomoon search too 🎉🎉

Thank you J.Wbb❤✨

wow..That Beetlejuice stuff is awesome.

I really liked you in breaking bad! Lol. In all seriousness I enjoy you content. Keep it coming.😁

Great job

Voting according to what excites Fraser is totally legit!

Go, Kipling, go! Tadadada.... Exomoons here we come!

4:45 really interesting seeing how much faster JWST missions are compared to HST; at least from a quick glance at the website. Explained by the size of the telescope.

Nice, you ain't Patrick Moore, but I didn't realize there was a astronomy/cosmology news channel on youtube. Will be sure to check back soon.

It make sense. If a star is unstable, such as when its in such a critically giant stage of its life, i dont think you can expect it to fuse evenly. Or to inflate and deflate evenly. It makes sense that that instability would show itself in the form of such uneven misshapings like that. Like a boiling pot of water.

That website looks very useful

I sometimes find a poll while scrolling, but how can I find them specifically? Unless I vote on a poll immediately, I'll never find it later. They're never in my notifications, even though I've subscribed etc.

When gathering your space friends, it would be great to see Stage-Zero Zack (CSI Starbase) in conversation with you on the channel....

Yeah it's fantastic that David Kipping got the viewing time. Work that he's doing is fantastic

Ridiculously cool!

Oh neat! I totally missed your collab with Scott last time. Hope you two work together again

cool vid thanks :) my profile is Betelgeuse from my phone, not great lol but i love it

How does one use time on JWST? For example: you have a day to look at exoplanets, are you just given the keys and controller or is it pre calculated by someone who works with JWST? Sounds silly but can you explain? Thank you

Just before you mentioned David Kipping, I had been thinking of the video he threw off, almost immediately on hearing they had not secured observing time. Just absolute devastation. Congrats. Moons are increasingly sexy objects.

Thanks a bunch for all the news, Fraser! 😊 About finding life out there... People talk too much about it, specially in the UFO community... Hypothesis of collapsing civilization, etc... But, honestly? Yeah, it's going to be fun to watch when it happens, but most people are going to be like... "Oh, really? Anyway..." Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Me watching black hole pair section: "Final parsec incoming!" Fraser: "Right you are, good sir!"

This robot surgeon will be the great great great great grandfather of the EMH The Doctor. I saw Dr. Kipping interview and then his video giving the fantastic news. Now Fraser Cain again telling about it. I love this "crossovers"

So excited for Dr. Kipping; they got THREE DAYS!!!

Hey Frasier. I'm a fan of the site. In your Biggest Black Hole segment you answered your own question "How do you get a super massive black hole?," with "Only through the merger of less massive black holes." And you said it with conviction. It's your word "only" that raises suspicion. I have two words in response, "Direct Collapse." And perhaps five more given the speed of the refinement of our knowledge in this renaissance of cosmology..., "as far as we know." The Eddington limit has been shown to not be a universal truth or wholly capable of explaining whether supermassive black holes were formed in an instant at expulsion, or began forming or formed fully invitro causing the spew of the expulsion of this expanding universe, or whether Super massive black holes collapsed at speeds exceeding the limiter of the Eddington equation - the speed with which accretion of matter forms enough radiant energy necessary to repel known incoming material. Your coverage of the most massive black holes discovered so far and that they are repelling all material around them, and are still merging, despite our math, is a great segment. It raises for consideration the very interesting question of whether the big bang was a black whole maturing - casting it's black hole seeds out with a bunch of food so that all the little black holes can grow, consuming matter to the point of maturity, which, when mature, gives rise to those bursting and expelling all it has consumed, like it's mother/father before it. What would trigger a black hole to reverse it's physics and spew forth a glob of universe seeds, to make more seeds, to make more? A flashpoint amount of matter? Time? Processes? Are universes a recurring resonance of energy perpetuating like life on Earth does? Could this rare merger of black holes cause their result to reach the critical maturation point so that they explode in a creating a universe kind of way? Or is this just a little black hole heavy petting with some more "merging" still to come? The growing rate of universal expansion would be a very useful element for a black hole universal seed scenario to work. Separate the seeds so there is space between them for the other universes to come. Not all seeds would mature. Would their remnants be detectible between the universes? Hard to get a signal back in time. Many thanks for all the effort. It's a very exciting time to be alive. I am grateful for you and your contribution.

Very interesting. Would be fun to apply to look at things to make prints on canvases. Pretty stuff?

I love Dr. David Kipping and his "Cool Worlds" ❤

Very unusually I had Peritonitis at aged 2 years old. To save you from looking this up it's when your appendix explodes, and causes massive blood poisoning. I was very lucky to survive this incident. The good news is that if I ever become an astronaut I'll never get appendicitis, mine has been removed..

The Europa thing may be good news for life, considering the only instance of abiogenesis known to have happened likely did so without oxygen (on very early Earth). Compare Nick Lane's sentiment that oxygen is so reactive that it likely prevents the chemical mechanisms of abiogenesis, binding to hydrogen and carbon before they can form hydrocarbons (in the absence of highly evolved protein machinery).

13:26 Mind BLOWN!

Thanks.

Re the final parsec problem, Becky Smethurst has a piece on gravitational waves in response to a query about whether these waves interfere like other waves.

Question: Is there plans to make a new golden disk or any physical message like on voyagers? Love your work!

Greetings from the BIG SKY.

Astronauts are most skilled people outside earth too

Every time I hear talk of extra terrestrial contact, I think of a short story "sentient meat" I forget who wrote it but it's well worth the read

I can't help but wonder how loud Betelgeuse would be if it had an atmosphere.

Hi Fraser, best wishes … I wanted to mention an sf book that blew me away … Dan Simmons’ “Hyperion” … have you read it ? I can highly recommend it ? Nigel

That is terrifying

I think surgeons are the most skilled and brave persons on Earth.

Betelgeuse is extra cool because we can see it, it seems more real than the stuff you can't see with the naked eye.

I have no idea how I do it but whenever you post a video my ADHD brainfor some weird reason says to me look on youtube for space stuff I bet there new ones and bomb jump on and here you are in all the glory just waiting ty dude keep up the fantastic work of reading my mind

Digital twinning could be useful for tele surgery. If there was a high fidelity mult-layer scan of the surgical area, one could have almost zero latency when operating remotely.

Hey Fraser, what are the different habitable zones for Earth if it was next to a red dwarf, white dwarf, etc.? Thanks, Jason

This is a fxxxxxg good site

What is the timescale of the boiling? If you were orbiting Betelgeuse, would its “atmosphere” not be a sphere? How common is this type of boiling star? Thanks and LOVE your work!

Perhaps a well timed interview on a well respected popular RU-vid channel assisted the Webb team to choose wisely.

Fraser you underestimate my power! 😡

IFT-3 on Pi day, nice! Wonder if they'll attempt a "rapid" turnaround for an IFT-4 on the anniversary of IFT-1 (4/20)

Cool Worlds Lab will be buzzing at that news. Loved the visual of Betelgeuse .

Do black hole binaries frame-drag?

Beetlejugo is just doin the truffle shuffle. Living his best life.

Run for the hills boys, it’s about to blow!

Hey Fraser will the diamond rain on Jupiter create "diamond-bows" ? (assuming enough sunshine can go through the clouds)

I strongly doubt that it's just a coreless, formless blob like that. That thing has tremendous gravity well capable of creating a monstrous core.

Ha, all 3, good call!

I just have to say how much I appreciate your channel, there's so much garbage out there with generated AI stuff right now youtube feels hollow at times. And I like AI, just when presented by a human, ironic ;)

It's crazy Hubble is still going. I just can't believe it.

My favourite 'astronomer's license' of a red giant's photosphere: "red-hot vacuum."

Great video. FYI, before the movie, the name of the star was pronounced BAY-TEL-GAYSE. The name of the star goes back to the ancient Egyptians, who I'm pretty sure didn't see the movie.

I believe that the pair of black holes would get closer because of the massive time dilation. It's frame dragging from the effect of the two massive gravitational fields in close proximity that pulls them closer

Would magnetic friction / magnetic damping account for orbital energy loss in the final parsec problem? PS GMTA above, it seems

"Bug Splat" You need to have NASA officially coin that term for a planet/asteroid that crashes into a White dwarf/Neutron Star. Also just wondering, have the Hubble and James-Webb telescopes ever looked at the same thing at the same time?

17:15 Surely gravitational waves have energy? Maybe creating the ripples in whatever gravity is acts like a kind of drag on the black holes and slows them down.