The DARKSABER Explained (Star Wars SCIENCE) 

Black hole blade sounds like an anime character's ultimate attack.

"If you wanted to leave the planet, and, I don't blame you..." -Kyle Hill, 2019 Best quote ever.

This video is going to get a whole lotta viewers soon.

He used a “black kyber crystal” to build the dark saber. Black kyber crystals in the Star Wars universe are EXTREMELY RARE hence why most light sabers used different color crystals. As the first Mandalorian Jedi many 1000’s of years ago Tarre Vizsla wanted to build a weapon that was distinctive to his people which is why it represents so much more to Mandalorians than just a lightsaber. Trying to help you out sir.

Physics teacher: today we learn about black holes Kid who watches Because Science: - fixes his glasses -

"How does the dark saber work?" dude just lower the brightness slider on the handle.

"Powered by... Something" Kyber crystals, sir, kyber crystals

Kyle Hill: * Brings up the possibility of dark sabers be black holes * Also Kyle Hill: * Refutates himself *

Kyle: Everything near a black hole blade would be incredibly attracted to it. Me: Lucky bastard.

"Infrared cameras are used to find humans like you. And me, maybe." Proof that Kyle is not Terran. Also proof that we can't call him a supervillain, as we do not know the values of his homeworld.

“It’s hot just like Han Solo” Ok go on “It’s a tight ring of plasma” Yep, just like Han Solo

You should do an episode on “Can Rogue from the X-Men touch herself”

"Hot and dangerous, just like Han Solo" best line of the episode!

I love how Kyle casually said “hot and dangerous like Han Solo”

My theory would be that the blackness comes from most of the radiation being outside the visible spectrum, with the 'corona' dipping into it. Still flawed, but more likely than a black hole lol.

Or... You know, make it so hot it radiates in the ultra-violent range and turns invisible for us

Kyle: If you wanted to leave the Earth-and I don't blame you... Me: Hahahahahaha... *sobs*

“Gravity shapes planet sized objects into spheres” Flat earth theorists:that’s not how the force works!!

Kyle: Dark Saber is super heavy and has black hole effect Real explanation: It's just a Mandalorian made Lightsaber powered by a black Kyber crystal

Me to my physics exam after watching Because science: *"My powers have doubled since the last time we met count."*

Gravity: "haha! yes! I win!" Person: *jumps* Gravity: "aww..."

“It would be so massive no one could ever swing it. No one could ever lift it.” Ok Thor

A grey Jedi type of effect on the khyber crystals similar to Sith red and Asoka's white crystals. Imagine what would happen if a person channeled _ALL_ of their emotions through a crystal. The good and bad alike. You _could_ end up with a pure black blade with a white barrier symbolizing the light side containing the chaos of the dark, or the light and the dark in balance.

Greetings to everyone watching this after Dec 27 2019.

Ok, so I did some research and I found out that what's much more viable than a 'black hole sword' is just a regular lightsaber that contains an invisible plasma (like the kind we see in the ITER plasma in the Korean tokamak KSTAR (you can read about it on their website)) the plasma here is a blistering 150 million °C, and it isn't even visible because it simply doesn't emit light in the visible spectrum. Maybe the Darksaber is some kind of hyper advanced form of this? Idk, just seems more practical to me 🤷‍♂️ I realize there are a lot of logistical hiccups with this idea too, but I'm just throwing it out there. Keep scienceing!

Kyle: This is how the Darksaber works Tarre Vizsla: **Nervous laughter**

I'm actually impressed of how this guy writes invertedly whenever he starts explaining equations

1:09 "The light saber is hot and dangerous, just like Han Solo" LMAO

Black Hole Blade sounds like a popular Mandalorian adult film star.

Kyle: if it was a dark sphere it wouldn't be a sword Me: no but it would be one helluva mace!!

I have a feeling this will get a lot of views soon

"On the other robot hand..." I lost it at that line.

Suprise spaghettifacation! Perhaps instead of having a black hole in the hilt, it instead creates a Einstein-Rosen bridge that has an exit near a black hole. So when the "blade" is powered, it just opens the door to the gravity, allowing it to come through. Also, in the past you conjectured that opposing magnetic fields is what allowed light sabers to interact with each other. How would a dark and light saber interact with each other? At any rate, if there exists an accretion disk, there exists an abundance of gamma and X rays being emitted from them. So, suprise cancer too, I guess.

"If you wanted to leave the earth - and I don't blame you" ROFL

Wow I literally loved the whole video. I learnt a lot of physical science, and not matter if we don't know exactly how a dark saber is made of, your explanation is way worth it.

Who watched this after watching Chapter 8 of the Mandalorian

Kyle, first I would like to say that I have watched your show for a long time and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I am currently in college as a physics major and have thought of a couple of ways to make the dark saber work though they aren't as cool as your hypothesis with the Black Hole Blade. The first way is that super black substances and objects, such as vanta black, can absorb massive amounts of radiation such a light and convert it to heat. Combined with a super strong magnetic field that is opposite to the traditional lightsaber, for the attraction effect (though not really useful unless you can change it instantly), it might be able to absorb enough radiation to turn the air around it's edge into a plasma, which allows for the unusual shape. The second way is more likely. The mandelorians may have been able to create a super bright plasma that makes the center of the saber appear black. This effect is observed when looking at bright lights, objects around the light appears black or dissapears entirely. That's just my two cents though.

"man, the fans really like the mandalorians. Maybe we should stop giving them all the cool stuff and save it for other groups?" "Nah"

1:22 “Powered by-“ Everyone: “A KYBER KRYSTAL, ITS CALLED A KYBER CRYSTAL!”

So we know now: the mandalorians were far ahead of the other species in star wars and could control a black hole. Or create a sword with similar properties

I have a hypothesis about how the darksabers work: they look cool, so it just works. Star Wars - lives and dies by the rule of cool.

Do something like "How to build a battle droid".

these deductions help science move forward the what if’s and the mind still going outside the box i like this video a lot bro don’t stop

"If you wanted to leave the earth and I don't blame you" lol good one Kyle.

Kyle: Or some other Star Wars words that start with S... Sabba the Hutt? No. Me: Stormtrooper. A Stormtrooper Kyle.

Star wars: Hey we love the channel and would love to sponsor a video Kyle : Ok..... Heres why star wars gets everything so wrong!

Hey Kyle, love the show! I think you might have fun with a couple ideas here: 1) you mentioned in the video about standard lightsabers that they're composed of a few grams of plasma; how long could you stretch a couple grams in a cylindrical black hole? 2) sometimes in physics, things can be "effectively infinite" without going to infinity; how long would you have to make a cylindrical black hole for it to have an "effectively infinite" length? Is there an ideal "length to width" ratio for black holes to manage effectively infinite lengths such that we might be able to relate size of black hole to mass, something akin to the schwarzschild radius but for cylinders? If those turn out to be questions that either can't be answered or can't be answered easily, that's fine, but I figure they're at least worth going through! Thanks for all you do, man; you're totally rad fam! (that's how the kids these days talk right)

This has to my favourite star wars because science episode yet! Honestly, I always just assumed that the darksaber give off only ultraviolet light, and that's why to a human at least, it appears completely black. It's a intresting though it the sdarksaber was actually a compressed balck hole, and what effects it could have on it's surrounding.

Kyle when will you do a Gundam themed episode? We need a video on Gundam's unique weapons.

"There's a lot of problems with everything" - Because fiction.

this is the funniest video I've seen from yall. The Porg joke made me laugh more and more. Gotta remember that unexpected stuff repeated with the right timing is hilarious

I'm so glad that you always use the metric system aswell, it makes everything easier.

Hey Kyle, great video as always. How about this as a way to make the darksaber work: Instead of the blade being made of extremely large amounts of mass a la a black hole, what if the blade is dark due to the absence of any radiation? Imagine a blade capable of reducing the gases in it to absolute zero (kinda the opposite to the way a regular light saber heats a set of gases to plasma). The heat removed from the gas would need to go somewhere. I propose this heat is channeled along the same magnetic fields as a regular light saber to create the heat needed for cutting, thus giving the glow to the dark saber. The absence of heat, in addition to some form of magnetic field shielding the gases inside, should create a black saber. Any photons entering the saber would lose all their energy and be absorbed, turning into the heat energy along the edge of the weapon. This also would mean that the air near the exposed, extremely cold gas would condense, creating a slight fog around the blade. The reflected photons from the helical bands of magnetic fields carrying the heat would light this condensed vapor in a glow around the dark portions of the blade. Obviously, this solution has the problem of what happens when the blade passes through something, but if the heat along the magnetic fields is sufficient to vaporize the material it touches, the blade itself should pull the heat from that vapor in a feedback loop. My math skills aren’t near strong enough to determine the feasibility of such a device, but it sounds like it might be more feasible than a black hole blade.

Kyle: *Says he's not a super villain* Also Kyle: *Creates multiple videos around super villainy acts and weapons* Kyle wanna share something with the class??

The theory I love is that the blade is flat rather than cylindrical, as it appears to be, and the electromagnetic field prevents it from cutting on the flat of the blade, meaning it only emits light along the cutting edge. This also comes with an explanation for the hilt design that aides in edge alignment, and perhaps even it’s purpose in construction, as the plasma energy concentrated along the edge may be far stronger than on a normal blade and able to cut through Mandalorian materials like beskar.

After using the "darksaber" almost exclusively in the force unleashed seeing the darksaber appear in TCW show was awesome. They aren't the same design, but the blade color is the same still my favorite lightsaber to date.

How would someone wield a black hole saber? It's those dang midichlorians, isn't it...

Kyle: "This is how the Darksaber works..." Kyle: "kinda..." Kyle: "okay, it actually doesn't work" Kyle: "nothing in Star Wars works..." Me: *ROFL*

Who's here after the mandalorian?

Maybe it's not a black hole, it just emits light in a spectrum we can't see.

Hi Kyle, love the show! One quick observation: if the light emitted by a lightsaber was simply due to the heat of its plasma as dictated by Wien’s law, then you could not have all the colours that we see in the movies. You could only add up the colours from the large wavelength end of the spectrum to the smaller wavelength end i.e. red, orange, yellow then white and eventually blue for the hottest plasma. In the same way there are no green stars, there could not be green lightsaber. Therefore lightsaber colour has to be due to some other mechanism such as the photons emitted from transitions in energy levels.

"What If": That Mandalorian Jedi just used the hyper-advanced magnetic field technology to create a slimmer, straight, and much stronger field to crush the plasma into an extremely fine line of extremely high density? The radius on the event horizon could then be explained by perhaps something to do with the combination of extreme magnetism and gravity and the way our visual centers adjust for contrast: Perhaps some light does make it through that area, but not enough to register.

It's actually because it uses what's known as an "inverted Kyber crystal" most lightsabers use a Kyber crystal to focus the blade, but under the gravitational force of a black hole, a Kyber crystal compresses into an inverted kyber crystal That focuses the blade in the opposite way, combine an inverted Kyber crystal with a fine cut Kyber crystal and you get the flat blade like design with the inverted properties (the reason there's no more darksabers is because there was only ever one inverted Kyber crystal found)

Firstly, the Darksaber is easily the coolest lightsaber in Star Wars. I think the Darksaber could be black because it's "Dark Matter plasma" a science fictional state of matter(you know, like the show lol). I love this channel for attempting to bring some science to science fiction. Great video! Second, I recently watched a pretty interesting video on a micro "cold plasma" jet that can be used to sterilize surfaces without being hot. I think it was the plasma channel or something like that.

I was waiting the for a “Surprise-Darksaber” joke...

Boze Einstein condensate shaped like a sword vibrating at fast speed it would be both a wave and a particle basically frozen light anyway.....it would be dark and very efficient at cutting How's that for a theory Also Kyle there are more than 4 phases of matter 😮🤭

“If you wanted to leave earth, and I don’t blame you.” That’s a honest bruh moment

Whos here after seeing it in the newest episode of the Mandolorian and was so excited that we could see a live action ahsoka tano and Sabine

I feel like kyle is just gonna keep "accidentally" losing body parts until he can fulfil his dream of being all robot

7:12 “slice through a sarlacc or another Star Wars word that starts with ‘s’. Sssssabba the hutt. No.” Sith Lord? Stormtrooper? Separatist? Solo, Han? Super battle droid? (Star Wars words that start with ‘s’ but you can’t slice through with a lightsaber) Star destroyer? Space station? Sand (Anakin’s greatest fear)? Speeder bike?

There is also another explanation. Previously you discussed the subject of "blackest substance" with paints. What if the "blade" is a reaction creating an elementary particle that once interacting within the confined field holding the blade shape begins to absorb light. This absorption generates heat and also would eventually generate light. Now if this force is sped up through the use of further technology (its star wars, they have it 😂), we could also theorize this could create a hot plasma around the edge of the blades field. As for the "pulling" effect on other lightsabers, this also would explain it as the matter would be absorbing immense amounts of light. As a lightsaber is essentially a blade of just, well, light, it would be drawn into this light absorbing material. So in theory, the blade isnt a light saber in the traditional sense, but a sword containing a field array to hold the release of generated matter that greatly absorbs light to a scale we havent recorded yet with a high efficiency. It might use a lightsaber crystal to generate the light to kick off the initial reaction so that it had a way to generate the extreme heat and cutting ability instantaneously, but would weigh more due to the added materials needed for the overall reaction. Best I got. Love the videos. ^.^

But why then is the Black Hole shaped like a single-edged sword?

12:28 "there's a lot of problems with everything" my new life motto.

“This is your father’s light saber, an elegant weapon, not as clumsy as a blaster.”

Great episode as always... But I felt the lack of "surprise light saber!" and spontaneously catching on fire (a problem the darksaber doesn't fix either)

In my opinion, I think the dark saber has some sort of antimatter crystal in it. Because we don't yet know what kind of light antimatter would emit or reflect, that it's possible instead of emitting light when energy is added it actually absorbs and even pulls light towards it. This could explain the white glow around it as well as why light sabers seem to get pulled towards it.

Kyle is trying to make his own pocket void. He is a villain. Love the videos

"Technically, everything in the universe is pulling on everything else at all times, no matter the mass and no matter the distance." But why doesn't my crush get attracted to me? "Most of the time, this pulling is so small that you don't even notice." Oh. Okay.

My headcanon is that Kyber crystals are stable amorphous solids, they stay as crystals until they're vibrated at a high speed, making the crystals expand. The vibrations makes them move so fast that friction is what grants them cutting power and its cauterizing and burning properties

7:58 funny enough the darksaber is confirmed to be heaver that normal lightsabers.

The mandalorian: *is released* The entirety of my youtube recommendations: *becomes mandalorian related* Ni cuyir briikase mando’ade dalyc

"Gravity works to make everything a sphere" A *sphere* I'll say it one more time for the flat earthers. *......A SPHERE!*

I have a few things to fix here: 1. The heaviest swords used in combat are Zweihanders which weighted closer to 4.5 KG, the 7KG you talk about is most likely a ceremonial sword aka a big fancy stick and not a weapon. 2. The source of a Lightsaber energy isn't "Plasma" or "Something" it's called a "Kyber Crystal". About the colour it depends if you go with cannon or Legends as it can be a changed based on the user wishes or get it from the special power the user is handling as in green for more of a force user, blue for a dueler and so on...

"If it had the properties of a black hole then it would return to a spherical shape" *Black Hole Flail Intensifies*

0:09 uncharacteristic void-canonical error of activating a lightsaber this close to yourself and not immediately bursting into flames. and screams.

Evil Kyle has a plan: he does not want to be human anymore

Hey Kyle another great episode! For a blackhole blade for the purposes of the blade being more real or capable of existing, coundn’t the blade be actually just a casing with a microscopic blackhole with matter being shoved inside being used to produce extra radiation like the matter of Jupiter does in the your one episode. This way it could be just do as it should minor amounts of attraction while the radiation produced heats up the casing to slice through anything. What would the casing be? Idk dark matter maybe still need to figure out what that exactly is.

hey, kyle great video as always. but I had a thought what if the Mandalorians thought of all of this and either made some Futuristic way to manipulate the gravity in either direction or force on specific objects (because come on if they do know how to shape black holes then maybe they can control the gravity as well) or maybe they have something in there armour that protects them from the tidal force that would spegettifiy them

Hey Kyle, love the show. However there are a few other problems with a black hole sword. Assuming it has a Mass of 1.5kg (a rough average for a European Longsword) and using a calculator I found online (because I'll admit I don't know the math) you wind up with a black hole with some... Exciting characteristics. Specifically the black hole would have a lifetime of approximately 2.837424e-16 seconds, reach a temperature of 8.181355e+22 Kelvin (not degrees, Kelvin is an absolute scale!) and achieve a peak luminosity of 1.583752e+26 megawatts. So, on the one hand, you'd go to activate the darksaber and wind up in the middle of a rapidly expanding shock front of problems. On the other hand, smuggling one in so someone could activate it would be a really quick way to cripple the Jedi Order.

If the dark Sabre were indeed a black hole, there is a mechanism that exists within the Star Wars universe that could potentially allow someone to use this weapon, and you even mentioned it in your Outro. In Star Wars, the ships that they use have full normal gravity. This isn’t achieved by rotation, but by some kind of technology that allows the manipulation of gravity directly. Presumably, they would have discovered the mechanism by which gravity works, such as the proposed Gravitons, and be able to manipulate them in a variety of ways. Which means they would very likely have the ability to increase or decrease the strength of gravitational fields, at least on a small scale. This likely explains how their ships of such odd shapes but obviously high masses aren’t crushed by the gravity on a planet, and also explains how they can lift off from the gravity wells of planets with such ease, and could perhaps explain their faster than light travel capabilities. Now, if the Dark Sabre were indeed composed of black holes, or more likely, a chain of black holes lined up and locked in place by magnetic fields such that their event horizons overlapped, then all someone would have to do in that situation is incorporate some form of anti-gravity shielding into their blade or perhaps their armour, to mitigate the effects of the gravity from the black holes. I do see another potential problem though if this is true. Such a blade would never be able to be turned off, like a normal light sabre, because the black holes would be released to cause damage. If they were particularly small kugelblitz black holes, then turning off the blade would cause the black holes to violently explode, destroying everything in the area.

Wookieepedia gave this as an explanation "The Darksaber was an ancient, black-bladed lightsaber. Unlike most other lightsabers, the Darksaber's blade was nearly flat, thin, and curved to a point more typical of a metallic sword. The black core of the blade appeared to draw in all surrounding light and color, leaving a faint white, electrical aura along its edges" for appearance and "The Darksaber had a crystal which served as a conduit for Force energy. The wielder's thoughts and actions guided the blade's current of power, with the blade often producing an electrical effect in response to a heightened emotional state" for function and obviously would have a BLACK KYBER CRYSTAL

Canonically, a number of hyper-dense spherical kyber crystals embedded in the center of the blade would be a pretty nice explanation. Since it’s connected to the force, that would explain its connection to force sensitive objects?

Ok, here’s my explanation: Obviously, there’s a lot of gravity Manipulation tech in Star Wars. They use artificial gravity on their ships, and there’s even one Poe Cameron comic where a satellite in-orbit amplifies the gravity on a planetoid. Poe and co. Have to wear special belts that reduce the gravity so they can still move normally. So, if we wanted, we could say that the gravity Manipulation allows the shape of gravitational interaction to be shaped like a long blade rather than a sphere (stronger attraction down the length of the blade, weaker otherwise). In addition, they could also use this sort of “Gravitic containment” to make sure people aren’t instantly killed as soon as the blade is turned on. And bingo. We have an ok explanation that allows for black hole sword. I just really want a black hole sword.

Me: thinks I'll be a warrior if I can get a lightsaber What I'll actually do 0:17

Our consciousness is so complex, that it's code of operating is written and stored somewhere near the source code of the Universe, particularly the part about forces and interactions and so we can alter it's variables a little. That explains the force. The character uses the force to cross the forces, created by the black hole saber with an equally big, but opposite ones and he also uses the force to keep it the saber form. That solves everything, except why he doesn't just close his dark saber and compress his enemies to instant death.

I was thinking it some how used "dark-energy/matter" to form the blade.

Silly science man! Dark Saber is just what happens when you put your Kyber Crystal in upside-down! Also: Love the show; keep science-ing!

Discount Thor: if you had a sword made out of a black hole no one could lift it, no one could swing it. Thor: am I a joke to you?!

Always fond lightsabers, energy sabers, and beam swords rather interesting. Though only few use a blade like the darksaber. Most similar to either star wars lightsaber or gundam beam sabers. Could you compare the types of energy, laser, and plasma swords and blades from different genres?

The Darksaber was *NOT* first featured in the Clone Wars TV show back in 2010. It was first available as a customization option in the video game 'Star Wars: The Force Unleashed' back in September 2008. You obtain it in the last zone on the Death Star, and it was referred to as the 'Black Lightsaber'. It used a Black Crystal to give it it's look.