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Black Holes are WAY Smaller than You Think

Black Holes are WAY Smaller than You Think In 2019, scientists published the first picture of a black hole! The picture is incredible, but do you know how big it is? How big is a black hole with the same mass as the earth, or the sun? How about other common black holes? If youโ€™re like me, you honestly had no idea, and this video is for you.

Black holes are amazing mathematical concepts, and the subject of many exotic physics hypotheses, but theyโ€™re also REAL, physical, things floating around out there in the universe! One of the things I love about #sciencecommunication, is when you can do something that has never been done before, and I think this is one of those times. In this video, I calculated the #SchwarzschildRadius of a bunch of black holes, and placed them in real places around the planet; some of these are so small you could hold them in your hand! That said, Iโ€™m neither a physicist of a #blackhole expert. As such, the math is approximate based on generally accepted averages of mass of selected objects. The animated sizes are estimates based on the locations. Iโ€™m not an animator or #VFX expert, but I definitely know my way around Final Cut Pro (even more so now). I hope you love the video! Please shoot me a comment and share the video with your space-loving friends!

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๐Ÿ˜˜ SPECIAL THANKS TOโ€ฆ
All my friends who I made watch clips of various (badly) animated #blackhole event horizons. Thanks to video editor heroes Woody Donahue and Alex Esteves who were both very patient with my questions as I pieced this together. And very special thanks to Wren from Corridor Crew whoโ€™s video about star sizes (in part) inspired this video, and who also was encouraging as I figured this out.

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P.S โ€” Black holes are actually infinitesimally small points, so this whole exercise is actually kind of silly, but I really enjoyed it!

P.P.S โ€” I made them purple because purple always invoked both mystery and importance to me. Plus itโ€™s my fianceeโ€™s favorite color so I hoped sheโ€™d be interested enough to let me show her all the iterations. Love you, Flav!

I just wanted to say one last thank you to YOU, lovely reader. Thank you for supporting me on this scicomm journey! ๐Ÿ’– I literally could not do this without you. - #tracedominguez

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