SciShow: How Big Can Black Holes Grow?

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Content of the Lesson: Black Holes are known for consuming everything that falls into them, but is there a point where these galactic devourers can't stomach anymore? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/black-hole-SagittariusA.html https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-biggest-myth-about-black-holes-35bd689a01f3 https://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/faq/black_hole/bhole-51.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/blackhole/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/star-swallowing-black-holes-reveal-secrets-in-exotic-light-shows-20180808/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.08502.pdf https://www.coursera.org/lecture/black-holes-astro-101/05-08-innermost-stable-circular-orbit-Jjxoh https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2015/december/black-holes-could-grow-as-large-as-50-billion-suns-before-their-food-crumbles-into-stars-research-shows https://www.kavlifoundation.org/science-spotlights/black-holes-revisited Images: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/multimedia/imagegallery/if_poetry_7.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/shredded-star.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_88S8DWbcU


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