How Black Holes Could Turn Jupiter Into a Star 

Thanks for watching, Super Nerds! I'll see you in the next Footnotes with the answers to your nerdiest questions. -- kH

Memes in 2019: let's raid area 51. Memes in 3019: let's make jupiter a sun.

If we were able to pull off that kind of a trick, we would probably be advanced enough so that we wouldn't have to do that.

"Become a star with this one weird trick! other planets hate him..."

"Man the last book I read really drew me in." "Oh it was that entertaining?" "No you fool! It had a miniature black hole in it! Do you have any idea how hard it was to get back here?!"

"Blackhole sun won't you come and wash away the rain".

Jupiter: *Biggest boy in the solar system* Mom: You're a failed star...

I’m a massive superhero fan....a know nothing space geek.....this is by far my favourite episode yet! So interesting!

A couple of points come to mind watching this. 1) you talked about capturing a black hole and moving it. I think it would be simpler to just create one where we need it. 2) getting rid of Jupiter's magnetic field. Don't Black Holes also have strong magnetic fields of their own? Or would the field not reach far enough to matter because of how small the black hole we need is?

Kyle is getting out of control, now he wants to vaporize Jupiter just to read at night? Someone needs to stop this lunatic.

Everyone: 42%, coincidence? Kyle: Yes

Teacher: *Why didn't you do your homework?* Me: *I wanted to see if Jupiter could turn into a star?* Teacher: Why?...WTF?

Invader Zim: Why would you do all that? Martin: Because it's cool.

Missed the opportunity to use Black Hole Sun as the title. I'm disappointed Kyle.

But the red sun would weaken Superman, then we're all doomed, Kyle as supervillain Confirmed!

You seem like a modern day Bill Nye and I love it. Some of the questions that you ask on your channel are so out there but you approach it so scientifically. I find myself asking the same questions from time to time but never had the background or resources to do research into it. Glad to have someone who not only does the big legwork but is able to talk about it in approachable and understandable ways. Keep it coming!

Hey Kyle, loved the video as always, and I know it's a bit late to comment on it, but I think it would be super important for you to do a video about the rainforest being burned. It's possible effects on the world - our world- if it's totally destroyed, as well as tipping points for it's self destruction cycle.

Wow Kyle, destroying a planet just so you can have a summer home smh

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should" - Ian Malcolm

Turn Jupiter into a star, then built a Dyson Sphere

scientists with fat moustaches: Ernest Rutherford J J Thompson Lord Rayleigh Fritz Haber Albert Einstein Kyle Hill

Ah yes, the ridiculous fun of Kardashev II engineering

Black hole sun, won't you come, and melt Europa's ice?

It might not be bright enough to read by (yet), but the light coming off of Jupiter is already bright enough to cast shadows on Earth in the right conditions. I actually got to see my Jupiter-shadow once decades ago while walking down a gravel road at night at Scout camp. It was one of the most profound natural phenomena I've ever observed.

Wouldn`t a Black hole that small vaporize before it reaches Jupiter's core by Hawking radiation?

Don't worry, the Monolith makers have got this. But remember, "All these are yours, except Europa."

"How to Turn Jupiter Into a Star" ...or "What NOT to do with Jupiter"

I wonder what we'd call this new Jupiter sun. Maybe something like, I don't know, Lucifer???

Dat moon flex

Right. Who else saw the thumbnail and immediately had a certain Soundgarden tune in their head?

If a black hole was that size wouldn't it instantly evaporate do to hawking radiation before it could et to Jupiter?

Great and inspirational as per. Cheers big man

I freaking love this guy Love all your work, never stop plz!

An entire 12 minute video about making a BLACK HOLE SUN, and ZERO Soundgarden references?

Someone confirm this in Universe Sandbox. I *need* to see this in action. :D

@5:10 That was hilarious! haha Love this channel. Thanks for all you do!

If we were to transport a black hole massive enough to initiate fusion on Jupiter, it would not just punch through Jupiter, but rather Jupiter would impale itself on the black hole, because the the Black hole would be more massive than Jupiter.

Kyle, could we give Mars an magnetosphere by giving it a bigger moon to warm up its core through tidal forces?

Kyle: "black holes are cool" Us: didn't you just explain that they are really hot?

This is more of a thank you than anything but I’m someone with Aspergers and I really struggle day to day with interaction and talking with people but for years I had a common ground I could share with people being mythbusters “did you see that episode where they did blank?!” And now a days I have because science so I can say to my friends “have you seen the one where Kyle told us how to melt wolverine?!” So this is not a correction but a show of appreciation, keep the mad science alive Kyle

Hey kyle, loved the video. But if you added 80x the mass of Jupiter to jupiter wouldnt that be catastrophic for the orbits of the other planets? Especially mars, earth and saturn?

nah, you don't need a black hole...just some self-replicating Monoliths

You make science interesting. Thank you, well done.

This was great, and so educational. Could you do a follow up on how doing this would change Jupiter's effects on the asteroid belt?

Stargate SG1 was discussing this in the episode 2010 back in 97~.

A black hole that small would evaporate away in seconds due to Hawking Radiation.

This Is the greatest because science episode ever. It would be amazing if we could do this.

Im gonna use your vids for presentations from now on 😊

Correction...maybe? If Jupiter's moons warmed up enough to liquefy all that sweet ice, would they have the molten cores necessary to generate a magnetic field to protect all that liquid water from being ripped away by the waves of energy/particles (what-ev) coming from both the now-lit Jupiter and the Sun itself?

I always feel like I need to watch each video three times. First, to just enjoy the video. Second, to appreciate the jokes, thinking, editing, art, and all around hard work that went into it. And third, to enviously glare into the beauty that is Kyle's hair.

Hey Kyle, you said something quite interesting towards the end of the video, Jupiter would be 80 times brighter than the full moon at its brightest. What would that do to earth's ecosystem? Disrupting animal and human sleepcycles, maybe even change seasons? Contribute to global warming?

Shout out to that amazing black animation at the beginning of the episode. Kyle, he deserves a raise.

There's a mistake in the title of the video "How black hole could turn Jupijup* into a star"

Some questions: 1° What happens to the quantity of radiation that is received by earth (Jovian winds) 2° By transforming Jupiter into a star the Goldilocks zone of the sun will interfere with that of Jupiter? 3° The gravitational balance of the solar system will be disrupted and the planets will be slingshot-ed?

Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy reference on point!

Thanks Kyle you just gave scientific validity to a character I was working on.

So then the monoliths from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey novels are sentient black holes?

Heyyyy, look at that. With a bit of research, Kyle was able to answer one of my questions that I threw at him during a Because Science Live show. Awesome.

Awesome video as always. Please do another Game Knights.

Its funny how i rarely remember any of this but i always watch these kinds of videos

Black hole sun Won't you come And wash away the rain Black hole sun Won't you come Won't you come (won't you come)

LOL 42! And then the dolphins said thanks for the fish 😏. Absolutely love your channel.

Thank you for this video, I've been asking a lot of the science pages the scenario of igniting Jupiter and I love the black hole usage But leave it to a Kyle to destroy all other life in the universe, dam it Kyle!

Wait... forgot something. Moving a black hole is harder than creating a Kugelblitz Hole ( pointing extremely powerful LAZORS at a point so you create a singularity). And being able to create a Kugelblitz, as a civilization, is like having dominion over one of the most advanced concepts of power generation. The next thing being industrial antimatter production.

Bah!! All you need is an alien monolith that can replicate itself millions of times!! Arthur C. Clark already covered this!!!

*NITPICKING AGAIN!!* 4:54 Never in my lifetime did I imagine I'd ever have to correct *Kyle Hill* of all people when it comes to spelling 'Argan Oil'. Pretty sure that bottle says 'argon' which really makes no sense because Argan Oil is the plant oil you make from the kernels of the Argan tree which is endemic to Morocco. Argon is a noble gas and I'm pretty sure it's not what keeps Kyle's hair as awesome as it is. _Please_ prove me wrong because I honestly don't wanna believe Kyle actually screwed that up 😅 What you didn't screw up was the actual episode though keep it up man! Also loved the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference there 🙌 Edit : Gravity still seems to work the same as always and the earth is still spinning as usual, it's meant to be a really small 'a'. I just couldn't figure it out, Because Science!

Instead of trying to find a micro-blackhole for this, you could make one. Disassemble Mercury to construct a partial (about 10%) Dyson Swarm around the sun, and with that, concentrate the captured sunlight to manufacture kugelblitz black holes. Since this process allows you to make more than just one micro black hole, you can make a few extra, plop them into Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and get FOUR new mini-stars for the Solar System.

Very inorganic question that's probably been answered before. Does Kyle, Nate, or someone else do the animations?

Frankly, Jupiter is not a failed star. I is, however, a VERY successful planet

Also Kyle why turn Jupiter into a star? Wouldn't it be better to use Jupiter as fuel source?

I have a topic for a future super power video. Something regarding forcefields. It's properties, lethal and defensive capabilities. If so I'd greatly appreciate it. Subscribed as well.

Google can read my mind, a few moments ago I was thinking of the effects if Jupiter became a star, I never once said it or searched it, but this popped up in my recommendations.

Hey Kyle, love your Videos. but one Thing, wouldn`t a blackhole of this size vaporise (hawking Radiation) within no time?

Turning gas giants into a star? Science: Wait! That's illegal!

0:19 "All that we would need is a black hole." Oh, that's everything? Wait a second, I think I have one still lying around somewhere from last week's Terraforming session.

would it be red from earth? seeing as some people believe our sun is yellow

Hi Kyle, Big fan here. Wouldn't a Black Hole if it entered the space where Jupiter is it eventually cause a significant change in other planet's orbits, and likely kill everyone on earth before humans can settle on a moon of Jupiter. And if we really want to transfer a Black Hole, then why not bring a bigger one and settle on planets farther away, maybe several dwarfs planets in the Oort Cloud, where temperature changes due to increased energy release and a closer "Center" would eventually make them habitable, would love to hear your opinion as always. p.s loved the Hitchhiker's guide reference.

Awesome that was my question from that episode. Thank you for awswering.

Can you do a video about the science of portals? And if you’d even want to go through one?

5:11 While it’s a total coincidence the Idea that the Precent of Mass Energy you get from throwing something into a theoretical Black Hole Engine being the legendary 42 sounds like something Douglas Adams totally would’ve written. Like the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is that we’re actually just a battery whose future actions are powering some 82nd Dimensional Being’s Smoke Detector.

Wouldn't this affect earth's translation, therefore affecting seasons and maybe eradicating a ton of species?

I remember an episode of Stargate SG-1 where in an alternate timeline they did just this...

I LIKE!!! Reminds me of the finale of 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

I'm impressed Kyle; no add

How did you not say "Black Hole Sun". -1 Point for Kyle.

Kyle Hill = Nyarlathotep. P.s. My son and I love your work . Keep science alive!!

"Lets do it!" YES PLEASE It sounds so cool

I feel like you forgot about Eu-bro-pa and I-bro 😂

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS - EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.

The first hypothesis for the stellification of the sun that you proposed consisted in "squeezing" Jupiter to the point on initiating steady nuclear fusion. But wouldn't the mettalic hydrogen insise jupiter's core pose a risk to a longlasting energy source, being more stable than normal gaseous state hydrogen? Guess that the your starkiller needs a different power source

Man I love nerdy stuff it's so cool.

Hey Kyle! Amazing episode as always. I'm a big fan of the show, and since my degree is in Astrophysics, I thought this would be my best bet to try and achieve Super Nerd status. I noticed a few people wondering about what havoc a Black Hole of this mass would do on it's way to Jupiter, or if Hawking radiation would evaporate it before it got there, so I thought I'd have some fun and look into it, since your busy doing 'definitely not super-villainy' stuff. Using the equation for the radius of a Black Hole based on it's mass (R=2GM/(c^2)) and rearranging for mass, and a Black Hole of that size would have a mass of about 10^21 kg. Which is a lot, but it's about 100x less than Jupiter's largest Moon Ganymede (or Gainymede to use your excellent pun). [Wouldn't getting the gains on Ganymede be waaaay more difficult due to the lower gravity?] The black hole would be slightly more massive than Ceres; the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt. Whilst this is pretty big, I doubt it would 'wreak havoc' on the Solar System, assuming it didn't get too close to a planet, especially any the terrestrial ones. If it passed through the asteroid belt it could throw asteroids out, which could endanger us, but if so most of its effects on us would be indirect, at least until it reached Jupiter. As for the Hawking radiation evaporation problem; using some equations I found [see my reply to this] I plugged in the mass value calculated and got a time for the Black Hole to totally evaporate of 2.66*10^37 years. So, on that front, the plan is all good too. Having a red sun in the sky could help with neutralising any pesky superheroes that draw their powers from yellow sun light btw. Would an active Black Hole such as this one be releasing high energy radiation that could be potentially harmful to life here on Earth, or would our magnetosphere protect us? Thanks again for another amazing episode. It's always great fun not only to explore all these wonderfully nerdy ideas with you, but to see the passion and enthusiasm you do it with. Keep up the amazing work. And remember, not matter how unkind the internet can get, there are so many fellow nerds out here (beyond the void) that love, appreciate and enjoy the awesome work you're doing. One last thing: my cat is called Jupiter and I think he got a bit nervous after reading the title.

4:42 The answer to life, the universe and everything. Edit: I continued watching. Great minds think alike.

I thought this was going to be Kyle playing universe sandbox 2......I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed it isnt.

This is one of your greatest episodes! Thank you! Oh.. Wait! Where is Dr Moo?

lol. I love the “Com on” bit

Instead of finding and transporting a suitable black hole (5:27) it would make more sense to create a kugelblitz using whatever dyson sphere - esque tech future civilizations would have.

No Kyle. All these worlds are yours. Except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace. And yes, HAL dreams.

OK. Best. Yt video. I've ever seen. Ever. Ever. Damn, my mind. It's going so many places at once. So many stories to write, old tales to reinvent... Superman still alive in a futuristic society, living in the era of a red sun, finally getting to experience normality. And praying for death to finally take him before his friends die, knowing humanity will expand towards new horizons. His burial would happen 15 minutes into this movie. Superman, hope of the red sun.

Kyle Hill playing Marvel Puzzle quest with Odin is epic.