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What's The Brightest Thing In the Universe?

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Follow Michael Stevens for neat stuff:   / tweetsauce   SOURCES BELOW music by    / jakechudnow   and http://www.audionetwork.com SixtySymbols video on new black hole theory:    • Event Horizons and Black Holes - Sixt...   "How Hot Can it Get?" Vsauce video:    • How Hot Can It Get?   "What Will We Miss?" Vsauce video:    • What Will We Miss?   Taijitu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu Yin Yang blackhole art (made by   / guylar   ): http://imgur.com/IpD5L4l Roman 'Yin Yang': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notitia_... Magnitude: http://www.1728.org/magntudj.htm http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Light/... http://evildrganymede.net/rpg/world/m... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitud...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extincti...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity http://space.about.com/od/astronomydi... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent...\ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute... Sun and lightbulb: http://bit.ly/1lxottV http:// …...more
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What's The Brightest Thing In the Universe?
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Follow Michael Stevens for neat stuff:   / tweetsauce   SOURCES BELOW music by    / jakechudnow   and http://www.audionetwork.com SixtySymbols video on new black hole theory:    • Event Horizons and Black Holes - Sixt...   "How Hot Can it Get?" Vsauce video:    • How Hot Can It Get?   "What Will We Miss?" Vsauce video:    • What Will We Miss?   Taijitu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu Yin Yang blackhole art (made by   / guylar   ): http://imgur.com/IpD5L4l Roman 'Yin Yang': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notitia_... Magnitude: http://www.1728.org/magntudj.htm http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Light/... http://evildrganymede.net/rpg/world/m... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitud...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extincti...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity http://space.about.com/od/astronomydi... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent...\ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute... Sun and lightbulb: http://bit.ly/1lxottV http://lumennow.org/lumens-vs-watts/ R136a1:    • R136a1 - The most massive known star ...   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R136a1 most luminous stars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_... gamma ray bursts: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/f... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ra... Dark Matter: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter Accretion Disk: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/... http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/... http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/... http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/... http://imgur.com/XyvTD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretio... http://www.superbwallpapers.com/fanta... Jets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativi... Quasars: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arch... http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/... http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/1... http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arch... http://www.space.com/17262-quasar-def... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3C_273 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazar Most luminous BLAZAR: http://www.caha.es/the-most-luminous-... ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_g... Neil Degrasse Tyson book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Black-H... Thierry Cohen art: http://www.danzigergallery.com/artist... light pollution: http://physics.fau.edu/observatory/li... http://www.lightpollution.it/dmsp/art... http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ve/1438... LA blackout: http://www.pbs.org/seeinginthedark/as...

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