What If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun? | Hawking Stars

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I always assumed that a black hole sun would just wash away the rain.

half the comments are people actually talking about science and the other half is just soundgarden jokes and i love it

Sound Garden appreciates this video.

Interesting fact: during proton-proton fusion, one of the protons turns into a neutron by emitting a neutrino and a positron. A positron is an anti-electron. If some of these positrons find electrons, they would annihilate and produce gamma radiation. So, some of the sun's energy comes from matter-antimatter reactions.

I JUST watched Anton’s video on this last night and was wondering if SpaceTime would cover it. Get out of my head, PBS Spacetime!

"There's a little black hole in the sun today. It's the same old thing as yesterday... that's my soul up there."

This made me realize that a lot of teaching of science doesn't really go back and tell us historical route we got to our current understanding of how things work as much as it could. This in turn makes me think there might be room in the classroom (virtual or otherwise) for more science history. We talk about the things we figured out and how we confirmed those things, but we talk less about the competing theories of the time and why they don't work and the process of generating actual hard evidence towards one of the competing explanations. For people new to science, it's useful to know the path we walked and the paths we already eliminated as a 'catch up'.

Matt Caplan's been behind a number of interesting papers already: Iron Dwarf supernova, the Caplan thruster, and now this (and those are just the one's I'm aware of, I'm sure there's plenty more). Any time he's involved I know I'm in for a fun video.

Really feel spoiled to have PBS SpaceTime have some of the best content on YouTube. Always fun to try to understand the newest crazy thing comes up. Fascinating to see how physicists leave quite a legacy. Thanks Matt and the entire team for the content.

I just want to say this new Space time logo looks amazing. Great work guys

I would watch you guys every single day. The quality is just SO good. Thank you for being awesome

soundgarden are huge proponents of this theory

Soundgarden would like to confirm we've got a black hole sun

You know it’s a good study when Anton and PBS cover it!! Awesome stuff

Re "Anton did it": W'duh, his method allows for such whereas Space Time is a much more concerted product. I mean, Anton's a machine, I won't deny it (dude uploads 6-7 times a week for 95% of the year) but, you see Matt (the dishy dork centerscreen)?. yeah, he's an actual astrophysist, he writes these episodes (sometimes solo).. perchance you noticed the copacetic graphics (those aren't tracers following Matt around since freshman year), they're there to avail understanding & contribute to much more in depth analysis.. all wizards considered, PBS Space Time is a much superior product.

Listen, if this could even PARTIALLY be true, do you know how happy Soundgarden would be?

I can't believe how quickly you all are responding to this topic!

this is such a great episode, thank you! very inspiring that this journey starts with a "fun but kind of obviously wrong" idea - and that it then leads to actual gain in human knowledge in the end. thanks for taking us along for the ride!

Really good quality science communiction like this is a gift to humanity. Thanks for doing this. I know people will say, "but they get paid," and, "it's a business," but there are plenty of other ways you can be making a living, yet you chose to make a living helping people to understand physics. Also, there are plenty of ways of being a physicist that don't entail putting yourself out there like this, so again, this isn't something you 'have' to do, it's something you chose to do, and it's great, so again, thanks.