Let's jump through the wormhole and check out
some of the weirdest discoveries made throughout the cosmos [Music]
Cooper's Sonic shocks traveling through the cosmos Have you ever seen a jet go supersonic
and create a shockwave in the air? Shockwaves can cause some serious damage and astronomers
have recently detected shock waves traveling faster than the speed of sound through plasma
waves as well as the electric and magnetic fields permeating all of space. These supersonic shocks
can be created from a number of events such as massive supernovas or ejections from black holes
and can cause massive damage if an object gets in their way. The shots that are generating can
travel incredible distances and can have much more far-reaching effects than the events themselves.
Will we be able to know if one is making its way towards us? Fast-moving Planet Killers Lurking
out in nearly every corner of the cosmos there seems to be something powerful enough to destroy
our entire world. These objects include gargantuan asteroids, that for the most part, are extremely
hard to detect, but that didn't stop astronomers from looking and locating several of these massive
space rocks within our own solar system. In fact some of these Planet Killers have been found in
the inner solar system silently orbiting in close proximity to the Earth since they were captured in
the formation of the solar system. Earth's Black Hole Neighbor Astronomers have detected a certain
gravitational monster that could lead to the end of our world hiding in our own neighborhood. At
a distance over three times closer than the Milky Way's central black hole, astronomers
have detected the nearest black hole ever found to Earth. Sitting at just 1500 light years from us,
this is by far the closest black hole that scientists have been able to find. This particular
black hole may have evaded detection for so long because of how light weight it is, coming
in at just around three solar masses. Finding a black hole of this size is no SMALL task either.
The rarity of the find along with its location within the constellation
Monoceros prompted its discoverers to choose its name The Unicorn. An Electric
Current that is Supermassive Astronomers have just found an interesting electrical
anomaly sitting around two billion light years from our solar system.
Like many others, within the galaxy known as 3C303, lives a supermassive black hole,
but unlike others, this one is producing an electric current with an INSANE strength.
Measuring in at one thousand and eighteen amps, this current is the STRONGEST current EVER seen.
Stretching out for one hundred and fifty thousand light years, larger than the diameter
of the Milky Way, this electric current is as strong as a TRILLION bolts of lighting.
If scientists can unlock this process of seemingly endless renewable electricity,
could it reveal hints that can help our own journey towards that for Earth?
Stars Moving at Blinding Speeds sitting 5,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way
our solar system is in a pretty calm area but that's not the case for everywhere As
you move closer to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy the gravitational
forces present get exponentially stronger this increase in force means that the Stars
nearest to Sagittarius A star are moving at Breakneck speeds over one thousand of these
stars have been found to date and they can reach speeds of between 30 and 100
000 kilometers per second that's eighteen thousand to sixty two thousand miles per second at these
speeds creeper velocity is the needed velocity to escape their orbit and begin a journey out of the
Galaxy how many stars has our galaxy lost over lifetime will the jwst find Strange Matter look
around you everything you can see is made up of matter which is composed of atoms with nuclei in
their centers these nuclei are themselves composed of fundamental particles called quartz bound
together by gluons the carriers of the strong force but astronomers believe that in special
places in the universe another kind of matter might be hidden Strange Matter this theoretical
substance is missing a key part of ordinary matter the gluons holding their protons and
neutrons together in Strange Matter the nucleus is composed of free moving quarks giving it some
unique properties for one if Strange Matter were to come into contact with ordinary atoms models
say it would transfer its properties starting a chain reaction that would eventually lead to
the entire universe becoming Strange Matter no one really knows what would happen in this case
but with the power of the James Webb Space Telescope astronomers will be looking in
the Deep corners of the cosmos to see what is hiding there draining glass on
hd189773b exoplanet hunting has been all the rage for a number of years now
this has led to the number of exoplanets we know of exploding in number to over 5
000. No Doubt among these are some peculiar Planet take for example [Music] hd189773b
known as a hot Jupiter it appears as a Blue Marble floating through space but this calm
appearance is misleading the planet's 1300 degrees Celsius temperatures along with its silicate-rich
atmosphere leads to Glass forming in the high clouds before falling down and pelting the surface
with shards of glass traveling significantly faster than the speed of sound real life tattoo
the James Webb Space Telescope has joined the hunt for exoplanets and is just found a bizarre one
that appears to be completely shrouded in massive clouds of swirling sand this special Planet sits
72 light years from Earth in the constellation of crovis India's extra special as its orbiting
two small red dwarf stars with a double sunrise and sunset along with clouds of sand constantly
blowing you may notice a resemblance to an important planet from a galaxy far far away
but unfortunately the atmosphere of the planet known as vhs1256b is composed of a very skewed
ratio of methane and carbon and with a 70 000 year orbit a single year on this exoplanet would seem
to never end a bizarre red Quasar spotted by jwst the James Webb Space Telescope has been
on the hunt for new discoveries since is launch in 2022 and it's detected new exoplanets galaxies and
anomalies at a rate never before experienced just a few months after its launch it made a surprising
discovery a bright red Quasar red quasars are a special type of active Galactic nucleus housing
a supermassive black hole that has massive amounts of dust and gas flowing into it thanks to jwst's
infrared capabilities it was able to examine this Quasar that has been active for 11 and a half
billion years and found three galaxies orbiting each other at high speeds in a galactic merger
these galaxies along with two theoretical Halos of Dark Matter make this the densest area of the
known universe and may help astronomers unlock some of the mysteries of Galactic evolution
the early Universe was different the universe is old nearly 13.8 billion years old what the
cosmos was like all that time ago has been a mystery for a long time Hubble was able to
look back in time to get a glimpse of what it may have been like but now that the James Webb is up
and running astronomers have been able to look back even further in what they've found there
is forcing them to rethink parts of their story of the universe it turns out that galaxies may
have formed much earlier than originally thought around just 300 million years after the big bang
this level of maturity along with the diversity found surprised scientists and is leading them
to analyze their current models and adjust them to fit what Webb is showing them if you enjoyed
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