SciShow Space: The Milky Way's Black Hole Burped 3.5 Million Years Ago

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this video. Go to Squarespace.com for a free trial and when you’re ready to launch, go to http://squarespace.com/scishowspace and add code “SCISHOWSPACE" at checkout to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is quiet now, but new evidence suggests that it woke up around 3.5 million years ago. And Enceladus may have the the building blocks of the building blocks of life. Host: Caitlin Hofmeister 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 ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- 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.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2019-10/acoe-nla100319.php https://www.scienceinpublic.com.au/wp-content/uploads/ASTRO-3D-Ionisation-cones-full-paper.pdf https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2019-197 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/489/4/5231/5573821/ ------- Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:X-RayFlare-BlackHole-MilkyWay-20140105.jpg https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1511a/ https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA12348 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/213073.php https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/walton-lighthouse-at-the-santa-cruz-harbor-in-monterey-bay-gm1039589904-278298076 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA17202_-_Approaching_Enceladus.jpg https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1404 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/amino-acids-main-structural-chemical-formulas-gm474667562-65007551 https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20013/enceladus https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21887/last-enceladus-plume-observation https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA23173 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/underwater-background-gm514419706-88089315


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