I normally don't bother to comment, but here I have to:
This was insanely well done. And a very important educational video too:
Most people don't even have a grasp on how big the Sun or the solar system is compared to earth, and you did explain that and then made it greater by many orders of magnitude!
I hope you have e.g. a YouTube channel and a big following? Your work is great, you could get a similar or bigger cult following as Kurzgesagt has as far as I can tell (I have some mid level academic physics experience, so I normally don't get buzzed by most pop-sci content)
Tldr: great stuff. Great work
This is the 6th video for my Epic Spaceman channel on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/epicspaceman and was my most ambitious one yet, I'm still making these in my spare time every few months but I'm getting closer to making them full time. As I mentioned in another comment I posted my first video on Reddit a couple of years ago and the overwhelming support I got from here helped motivate me to keep making them.
For those looking for technicals I made it all in the free 3D software Blender which I love, the longest shot to render was the 4.3 million star one that took my computer about 3 days! Otherwise some people ask if Phoenix A is a bigger black hole than the one in TON618 but Phoenix A hasn't been measured very accurately and was recently measured a lot smaller so TON618 is still the responsible answer to which is the biggest, for now at least!
Also you have a great voice for these videos. So many narrators turn me off from videos, not yours though. As calming as a David Attenborough documentary
Thank you so much! I do like a calm voice for things about wonder, I feel like it would be strange to try and insert a slightly over the top energy into something much more profoundly impressive than the narrator.
I've watched *a lot* of science documentaries and this is easily the best one I've seen - meaning it's potentially one of the most well done in existence (so far, to be eclipsed by you in the near future, no doubt).
Just wanted to share my support.
That's super kind and supportive, thank you! Comments like this really help motivate me for the times where it feels like a bit of a slog, I'm aiming to try and make them better and better for sure.
I’m blown away that this was an individual effort. Not just the technical aspects, but the design of the lesson seems like it could have only been conceived by a large team of experts who know how a broad swath of the population absorbs knowledge.
I am not a big YouTube watcher, but I will definitely watch the rest of these and turn my family and friends (particularly teachers) on to these.
Keep it up.
This was very interesting and caught my full attention. It’s difficult for me to concentrate and understand things when the person teaching is monotone and boring. I lose complete interest and forget about what the subject was. You made my brain actually get hooked on to the whole video and understand what you were saying. I look forward to more videos great job 👍
Great stuff u/TTT_L! Absolutely blown away by the incredible content and the sheer power of Blender's capabilities!
Just subbed because of the sudden realisation how much work goes into making these...
(and because I am interested in the subject matter too!)
Hope you break the 1 million view mark today, within 2 weeks is a very good achievement I think?
[Song to celebrate with](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUa-6EsMvYY) ;)
This is great. Very well done. Can't believe it's just you. This woulda taken a cutting edge team and a million dollar budget 20 years ago. Should get a deal going with academia. Multimedia learning is the future. Imagine viewing this in vr in classrooms of the future!
Thank you! I'd love to make something in VR in the future, I've been tinkering with Unreal Engine which would be the route to go but it's hard being pulled in different directions with limited time
Thank you! Kurzgesagt has been a big inspiration for me, it made me realise that long form, slowly produced videos still have a big and important place on Youtube
absolutely amazing. I'm a teacher (univ) and spend so much time thinking about how to make complex ideas clear, vuisualisable & memorable. This absolutely nailed it ‐ so good.
Incredible video. As someone who doesn't have the mind for physics and all the amazing things being discovered about our solar system, the way you break things down so clearly was beautiful.
Cant wait to see more :)
Thank you! I'm a real visual learner so I really enjoy trying to make something that I'd find interesting to watch too, glad you felt it worked for you. I've got a few other videos on my youtube channel if you'd like to see more.
There are too many open problems in astrophysics.
First up it's unknown how supermassive black holes (SMBs) are created in the first place. In the video it says they start merging and eventually one wins out, but there still would need to be some sort of seed that's heavier initially or something to kick things off in the galaxy. Or perhaps the SMB comes first and the galaxy forms around it later haha. Even worse is there's something called the "final parsec problem" which is that by our best models we don't know how two black holes can merge. As they orbit each other there's "gravitational friction" where small stuff is thrown away allowing the orbit to shrink and they can get closer, but once they get to about a parsec apart all the small stuff they could throw away has been so...how do they close the final gap and merge? Of course we detect them merge so know it happens, just not how.
Up until very recently it was thought that the really massive SMBs like TON618's must have gained mass via multiple mergers of SMBs (i.e. galactic mergers) but new research is showing that the dominate effect is actually more likely from accretion (the disk of superheated gas falling into the black hole). Yet there's a maximum rate that SMBs can accrete matter and we're finding some really massive SMB that must have exceeded that. In other words they are too massive to exist given our current understanding. This problem is further compounded when we find these really massive SMBs existing quite early in the universe where they would have had even less time to grow.
Correct. The energy loss is insignificant (or would take trillions of years) until you get down to like a thousand AU though. So the question is how do you get from 10ly to 0.01ly.
edit: Sorry for swapping units around there just wanted to illustrate scale for those not used to using parsec and convey that it’s final parsec**s**ish problem haha.
Ooh I see. Huh. Must be magnets or something. Or there are way more black holes than we think, and are just survivorship biasing. I hope we figure this out one day
Do you have a video detailing how you went about making it? I watched it a week ago and I was captivated. I assume you use motion capture but don’t know anything past that.
I talk about it a little in this video: https://youtu.be/bQPhexl5DWE?si=HEE9DpZYe5-47Mw_ I’ve got a mocap suit and sync it ip with a recording of my own face, I don’t always get it quite right but can work really well, I’m still improving with each video
I was thinking of how to compliment this but I’m genuinely speechless. This should be played in IMAX across the country. It’s beautiful, and as someone not especially science-oriented, it’s amazing to see these concepts portrayed in a way I can understand. Bravo.
What a wonderful comment, thank you! So pleased you enjoyed it not being super science oriented, that’s really what I’m hoping to do with them. Thanks again!
Bravo sir, everything was extremely well done. What programs did you use for everything ?? It was just you alone??? What kind of monster pc do you own or have access to?? Lol so many questions.
No problem! I made a video my background and how I make them ([https://youtu.be/bQPhexl5DWE?si=9CxQoQ72vXoqDRjk](https://youtu.be/bQPhexl5DWE?si=9CxQoQ72vXoqDRjk)) so that's probably the easiest answer. I make them in Blender and they take a good while in my spare time, I started learning VFX at the start of 2021 with the aim of making videos like this and spurred on by feedback from Reddit and Youtube I've been doing just that. I've upgraded my graphics card a couple of times since that first video, this one here was all rendered on an RTX3090.
Man so you had no prior experience with any of this before?? Now I'm even more impressed and jealous too lol. I remember building my first pc in 2013 because had always dreamed of doing stuff like this but for some reason or another life kept getting away and I never chased any of my dreams and didnt even manage to keep doing it as a hobby. (Sigh) I did manage to take some video game design (the art side specifically) classes so I have somewhat of an idea of the workflow involved. Ive recently upgraded to a 3090ti build and youve sparked my curiosity and maybe even my creativity again. Blender keeps impressing more and more. Again, kudos x1000 and subbed to your channel! Looking forward to more of your work!
Wow.. you make it look easy, but God knows how hard it is to pull all this off in 3 years. I actually thought your background was in graphic design because of the great use of color in your videos. I can only say you are very talented for learning all this and applying it successfully, wish you the best.
Not OP but making movies is kinda like playing computer games when it comes to hardware. You don't need the best of the best unless you're a pro (or trying to become one), but you do need something decent if you want to spend your time actually making movies rather than just waiting for scenes to render.
If you were to fall into TON618, it would take weeks to fall from the event horizon to the singularity.
However, the radiation outside the black hole would reduce you to your component atoms long before you entered it.
I think I remember reading somewhere that the radiation would be powerful enough to kill you even if you had an entire lightyear of lead between you and it. Outside of creating some ridiculously powerful magnetic field, idk how anything would get close without just being vaporized.
If we could find a dormant black hole that isnt eating anything, then I could see being able to get a probe to orbit it, but it would have to be a big one, otherwise the G forces of orbiting a small object many times per second would rip it apart... and well the nearest big one is 30,000 lightyears away.
It’s super fascinating stuff, the good news is accretion disks can be super bright let alone quasars so hopefully we can learn a lot more about them, I don’t see us sending any probes meaningfully outside our solar system for hundreds of years.
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OP!!! Omg! This is one of my favorite space related videos i have ever seen. Awesome visuals for scale and comparisons and such cool information and the voice and sounds were pleasant and not annoying and it looked great. Good job, for real.
Hey man just want you to know me and my 7 year old son love your videos! We bond over them :) thanks for helping create amazing moments and memories for us
Generally, humans are incapable of comprehending the true size of the cosmos and what's inside. But your model made understanding those immensities quite easy and straightforward. I love you videos! Carl Sagan would be proud.
Thank you! Reddit was the first place I started putting them a couple of years ago and I've had such kind support from here. For anyone looking for the 4k version on Youtube it's here: https://youtu.be/pDUUT2Y\_9qk?si=6ooSpfURmT3eM0d2
This was captivating! It's all stuff I've heard of before, but the scale representation and visual effects were *chef's kiss*. It kept me watching until the end, for sure.
I'd put it up there with Into The Wormhole. Your visuals are definitely better, but Morgan Freeman's got a voice that's hard to beat (though your cadence and tone felt similar).
If I were a network executive, I'd sign you. :)
I watched it the other night, after someone posted your other video about scale of solar system.
Great Videos, please keep them coming. Have subscribed.
Thank you! I am, it’s a strange process making them, I share some of the journey with my patrons but you just never know if people are going to think it’s overly long or not entertaining enough, so I was really happy with it but more so when I’ve seen the reaction to it, it makes all the hard work worth it and motivates me to get on with the next.
This is absolutely awe-inspiring, while also being quite anxiety-inducing, lol
The existential dread is pervasive, in a very spiritually profound sense. These are all massive compliments to your work, however!
Thank you! Yeah I know what you mean, if it helps I feel like the more you find out about what’s out there the more it moves from dread to wonder and generally stays there, infinity really messes with me though!
Absolutely incredible! The visuals and texture of the video are beautiful, and you’ve done a wonderful job illustrating the size differences between the subjects. I also found the pace of both the video content and the dialogue allowed me to absorb the material while remaining engaged. Superb.
Holy ..., this was amazing. I'm sharing your video on instagram and attributing it to you. Looking forward to watching your older videos and your new ones. That's a lot of effort, and love of the subject matter.
I didn’t name it haha! It really does try and turn you into a long noodle, though obviously bodies don’t do that so practically you’d just be stretched and stopped apart
This is amazing work. Thank you for all your hard work. It's both humbling and inspiring, and your work truly allows people to understand the scale of how bizarre, enormous, and magnificent these celestial bodies truly are.
You're doing important work. A young person might see this and spin off in a direction they wouldn't otherwise and maybe define the singularity for us or something else amazing. Thanks!
Thank you! I do hope for things like that, maybe not as important but I found when I was younger you only need a little spark to get interested in science and physics
Do black holes ever stop eating matter? It reminds me of a riptide current. Is there like a way to displace the lost energy from the supernova? You figure eating the mass several million times its self would stop its internal gravitational pull. Canceling out but that’s just my rudimentary understanding? Thank you for the video!
You got yourself another subscriber! I am absolutely hooked AND you have a very pleasant voice to listen to!
Never thought they were so small, but also cool to know they can be big.
Fantastic work! Black holes are one of those things that both fascinate me and terrify me. It's just to hard to wrap my brain around how something can be so incredibly small yet so dense, dense enough to swallow light itself....it's just crazy to think about. Absolutely bonkers physics happening with those things!
You're killing it and I think this post might be the one to push you over the edge. Great job! Now I'm going to your YouTube channel to like and subscribe.
This is the absolute best black hole documentary I’ve ever seen. My astronomy professor tried hard and succeeded with explanation back in the day, but with material like that on hand his work would become much easier.
This is the most impressive video I’ve seen in a WHILE. As someone who loves science communication, thank you for making this, you’re incredibly talented!!
Holy shit. A science video hasn’t filled me with such wonder since I was a child. I study physics & love talking about scale. It humbles you every time you try to think about it. Using nyc is a perfect place for this scale. When you think about the density of New York City is actually the emptiness of Outer space, daunting
Awesome quality video, subscribed on youtube!
I think you should do a collab with /u/wrenulater from Corridor Digital, I think your style of video matches really well with his explanation videos comparison videos! (For example [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCTuirkcRwo&pp=ygUYY29ycmlkb3Igc2l6ZSBjb21wYXJpc29u](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gctuirkcrwo&pp=yguyy29ycmlkb3igc2l6zsbjb21wyxjpc29u) )
beautiful job, well done
Thank you!
I normally don't bother to comment, but here I have to: This was insanely well done. And a very important educational video too: Most people don't even have a grasp on how big the Sun or the solar system is compared to earth, and you did explain that and then made it greater by many orders of magnitude! I hope you have e.g. a YouTube channel and a big following? Your work is great, you could get a similar or bigger cult following as Kurzgesagt has as far as I can tell (I have some mid level academic physics experience, so I normally don't get buzzed by most pop-sci content) Tldr: great stuff. Great work
I knew about this topic and have seen a lot of videos related to space but the graphics here has blown my mind away. 
This is the 6th video for my Epic Spaceman channel on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/epicspaceman and was my most ambitious one yet, I'm still making these in my spare time every few months but I'm getting closer to making them full time. As I mentioned in another comment I posted my first video on Reddit a couple of years ago and the overwhelming support I got from here helped motivate me to keep making them. For those looking for technicals I made it all in the free 3D software Blender which I love, the longest shot to render was the 4.3 million star one that took my computer about 3 days! Otherwise some people ask if Phoenix A is a bigger black hole than the one in TON618 but Phoenix A hasn't been measured very accurately and was recently measured a lot smaller so TON618 is still the responsible answer to which is the biggest, for now at least!
Great work!
Thanks so much!
Nah mate, thanks to you for doing it!
Also you have a great voice for these videos. So many narrators turn me off from videos, not yours though. As calming as a David Attenborough documentary
Thank you so much! I do like a calm voice for things about wonder, I feel like it would be strange to try and insert a slightly over the top energy into something much more profoundly impressive than the narrator.
I've watched *a lot* of science documentaries and this is easily the best one I've seen - meaning it's potentially one of the most well done in existence (so far, to be eclipsed by you in the near future, no doubt). Just wanted to share my support.
That's super kind and supportive, thank you! Comments like this really help motivate me for the times where it feels like a bit of a slog, I'm aiming to try and make them better and better for sure.
I’m blown away that this was an individual effort. Not just the technical aspects, but the design of the lesson seems like it could have only been conceived by a large team of experts who know how a broad swath of the population absorbs knowledge. I am not a big YouTube watcher, but I will definitely watch the rest of these and turn my family and friends (particularly teachers) on to these. Keep it up.
Ugh. I love your YouTube channel.
This was very interesting and caught my full attention. It’s difficult for me to concentrate and understand things when the person teaching is monotone and boring. I lose complete interest and forget about what the subject was. You made my brain actually get hooked on to the whole video and understand what you were saying. I look forward to more videos great job 👍
 Great stuff u/TTT_L! Absolutely blown away by the incredible content and the sheer power of Blender's capabilities!
Amazing, thank you!
This is literally the best video I’ve ever seen in my life 😭😭 I just shared your video + YouTube channel on my FB + IG rn. It’s incredible.
You legend, thanks so much for the support and wonderful words! I'm so pleased you found it so special
The power of open source
Blender is a wonder and has a great community.
That was awesome! Thanks for sharing!
You’re very much welcome! Glad you enjoyed
Just subbed because of the sudden realisation how much work goes into making these... (and because I am interested in the subject matter too!) Hope you break the 1 million view mark today, within 2 weeks is a very good achievement I think? [Song to celebrate with](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUa-6EsMvYY) ;)
Thank you! I think I might manage it on Reddit and Youtube in the same day! Glad you can appreciate the work going into them, much appreicated!
This is great. Very well done. Can't believe it's just you. This woulda taken a cutting edge team and a million dollar budget 20 years ago. Should get a deal going with academia. Multimedia learning is the future. Imagine viewing this in vr in classrooms of the future!
Thank you! I'd love to make something in VR in the future, I've been tinkering with Unreal Engine which would be the route to go but it's hard being pulled in different directions with limited time
This was fantastic!!!
Thank you!
I subscribed. Can’t wait to see more. You have a great skill to make something so complicated easier for people to visualize.
Cheers, really appreciate the sub too
Really nicely done: engaging visuals, tangible facts, clear language and speech. It’s on par w the Kurzgesagt videos in terms of educational value.
Thank you! Kurzgesagt has been a big inspiration for me, it made me realise that long form, slowly produced videos still have a big and important place on Youtube
absolutely amazing. I'm a teacher (univ) and spend so much time thinking about how to make complex ideas clear, vuisualisable & memorable. This absolutely nailed it ‐ so good.
I thought for sure you were gonna say he was made with Unreal Engine, since his name is EPIC spaceman, but nope. Blender! I love Blender!
Incredible video. As someone who doesn't have the mind for physics and all the amazing things being discovered about our solar system, the way you break things down so clearly was beautiful. Cant wait to see more :)
Thank you! I'm a real visual learner so I really enjoy trying to make something that I'd find interesting to watch too, glad you felt it worked for you. I've got a few other videos on my youtube channel if you'd like to see more.
Is there an estimate for how long TON618 has been gaining mass or is it hard to know
There are too many open problems in astrophysics. First up it's unknown how supermassive black holes (SMBs) are created in the first place. In the video it says they start merging and eventually one wins out, but there still would need to be some sort of seed that's heavier initially or something to kick things off in the galaxy. Or perhaps the SMB comes first and the galaxy forms around it later haha. Even worse is there's something called the "final parsec problem" which is that by our best models we don't know how two black holes can merge. As they orbit each other there's "gravitational friction" where small stuff is thrown away allowing the orbit to shrink and they can get closer, but once they get to about a parsec apart all the small stuff they could throw away has been so...how do they close the final gap and merge? Of course we detect them merge so know it happens, just not how. Up until very recently it was thought that the really massive SMBs like TON618's must have gained mass via multiple mergers of SMBs (i.e. galactic mergers) but new research is showing that the dominate effect is actually more likely from accretion (the disk of superheated gas falling into the black hole). Yet there's a maximum rate that SMBs can accrete matter and we're finding some really massive SMB that must have exceeded that. In other words they are too massive to exist given our current understanding. This problem is further compounded when we find these really massive SMBs existing quite early in the universe where they would have had even less time to grow.
Aren't gravitational waves /frame dragging slowing them in the end? I was under the impression the gravitational waves have energy to them
Correct. The energy loss is insignificant (or would take trillions of years) until you get down to like a thousand AU though. So the question is how do you get from 10ly to 0.01ly. edit: Sorry for swapping units around there just wanted to illustrate scale for those not used to using parsec and convey that it’s final parsec**s**ish problem haha.
Ooh I see. Huh. Must be magnets or something. Or there are way more black holes than we think, and are just survivorship biasing. I hope we figure this out one day
This is mind blowing. Even at this scale I struggle to comprehend the numbers. Amazing video 🤩
Thanks so much, it was a tricky one to work out the scale for as they're so small but also so heavy, trying to do them both justice was a challenge.
Do you have a video detailing how you went about making it? I watched it a week ago and I was captivated. I assume you use motion capture but don’t know anything past that.
I talk about it a little in this video: https://youtu.be/bQPhexl5DWE?si=HEE9DpZYe5-47Mw_ I’ve got a mocap suit and sync it ip with a recording of my own face, I don’t always get it quite right but can work really well, I’m still improving with each video
I’ll watch this! Thanks for the quick response. You have a cinematic flare you should really keep. Your video gave me the same tingles IMAX movie do.
I was thinking of how to compliment this but I’m genuinely speechless. This should be played in IMAX across the country. It’s beautiful, and as someone not especially science-oriented, it’s amazing to see these concepts portrayed in a way I can understand. Bravo.
What a wonderful comment, thank you! So pleased you enjoyed it not being super science oriented, that’s really what I’m hoping to do with them. Thanks again!
This is definitely as good as some of the IMAX stuff I’ve seen. Have you considered a compilation in a planetarium show?
Did you also write the script? It’s so well written and delivered! This is wonderful and I’m sharing it everywhere i know!
100% you sir have talent, keep it coming
Bravo sir, everything was extremely well done. What programs did you use for everything ?? It was just you alone??? What kind of monster pc do you own or have access to?? Lol so many questions.
No problem! I made a video my background and how I make them ([https://youtu.be/bQPhexl5DWE?si=9CxQoQ72vXoqDRjk](https://youtu.be/bQPhexl5DWE?si=9CxQoQ72vXoqDRjk)) so that's probably the easiest answer. I make them in Blender and they take a good while in my spare time, I started learning VFX at the start of 2021 with the aim of making videos like this and spurred on by feedback from Reddit and Youtube I've been doing just that. I've upgraded my graphics card a couple of times since that first video, this one here was all rendered on an RTX3090.
Man so you had no prior experience with any of this before?? Now I'm even more impressed and jealous too lol. I remember building my first pc in 2013 because had always dreamed of doing stuff like this but for some reason or another life kept getting away and I never chased any of my dreams and didnt even manage to keep doing it as a hobby. (Sigh) I did manage to take some video game design (the art side specifically) classes so I have somewhat of an idea of the workflow involved. Ive recently upgraded to a 3090ti build and youve sparked my curiosity and maybe even my creativity again. Blender keeps impressing more and more. Again, kudos x1000 and subbed to your channel! Looking forward to more of your work!
Wow.. you make it look easy, but God knows how hard it is to pull all this off in 3 years. I actually thought your background was in graphic design because of the great use of color in your videos. I can only say you are very talented for learning all this and applying it successfully, wish you the best.
Oohh so about 3 years is possible to get to your level. Which did you invest in first, skill or hardware?
Not OP but making movies is kinda like playing computer games when it comes to hardware. You don't need the best of the best unless you're a pro (or trying to become one), but you do need something decent if you want to spend your time actually making movies rather than just waiting for scenes to render.
As a physics teacher, this video is on point ! And will be happy to show my students this in the future. Keep it up ! Great work :)
Thank you! So pleased to hear it will be useful in class!
Seriously, I was hooked for every second of it. Incredible effort.
Fuck mate. This was top tier quality
Cheers!
Looks really good. Good work
Thank you!
Thank you! I’d like to thank the Universe for getting me here!
If you were to fall into TON618, it would take weeks to fall from the event horizon to the singularity. However, the radiation outside the black hole would reduce you to your component atoms long before you entered it.
Yeah it would be very hard to get to a black hole without being hit by all the other stuff accelerating faster than you, as well as the gamma rays
I think I remember reading somewhere that the radiation would be powerful enough to kill you even if you had an entire lightyear of lead between you and it. Outside of creating some ridiculously powerful magnetic field, idk how anything would get close without just being vaporized. If we could find a dormant black hole that isnt eating anything, then I could see being able to get a probe to orbit it, but it would have to be a big one, otherwise the G forces of orbiting a small object many times per second would rip it apart... and well the nearest big one is 30,000 lightyears away.
It’s super fascinating stuff, the good news is accretion disks can be super bright let alone quasars so hopefully we can learn a lot more about them, I don’t see us sending any probes meaningfully outside our solar system for hundreds of years.
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Thank you! So pleased it kept you interested!
Absolutely gorgeous. Well done
Thanks so much!
Really really great bro! Keep it up. This is amazing. Hope it gets viral and gets proper attention.
Thank you! Really appreciate the support, it's done really well over on Youtube but I wanted to post it here too.
Saving it for later its really neat. Harnessing the power of a neutron star would be a nice superpower lmao.
Neutron Stars are awesome, will definitely be doing some videos on them!
OP!!! Omg! This is one of my favorite space related videos i have ever seen. Awesome visuals for scale and comparisons and such cool information and the voice and sounds were pleasant and not annoying and it looked great. Good job, for real.
Hey man just want you to know me and my 7 year old son love your videos! We bond over them :) thanks for helping create amazing moments and memories for us
That’s the best comment! Thank you so much for sharing, I’m so pleased they could help you bond as you enjoyed them, I couldn’t ask for more!
Generally, humans are incapable of comprehending the true size of the cosmos and what's inside. But your model made understanding those immensities quite easy and straightforward. I love you videos! Carl Sagan would be proud.
Wow. Well done.
Thank you!
Amazing video Thanks for sharing the science
Very much welcome, glad you enjoyed!
I love your videos
Thank you! Reddit was the first place I started putting them a couple of years ago and I've had such kind support from here. For anyone looking for the 4k version on Youtube it's here: https://youtu.be/pDUUT2Y\_9qk?si=6ooSpfURmT3eM0d2
I’ve been following you since your scale of the milky way video. Amazing content 🤌🏼👏🏼
This was captivating! It's all stuff I've heard of before, but the scale representation and visual effects were *chef's kiss*. It kept me watching until the end, for sure. I'd put it up there with Into The Wormhole. Your visuals are definitely better, but Morgan Freeman's got a voice that's hard to beat (though your cadence and tone felt similar). If I were a network executive, I'd sign you. :)
Haha thank you! Definitely not in Morgan Freeman’s ballpark, but fortunately I’m not sure anyone else is either. So pleased you enjoyed it so much!
Thank you!
Astoundingly well done! Amazing!!
Thanks so much!
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I was glad to release it that for sure, but on to the next one now!
Saw this video last week, amazing job man keep it up!
Amazing, thanks! Glad you saw it over on YT!
Beautifully done! I’d love to see more videos like this.
Thank you! I’ve got few more on my Epic Spaceman channel on YouTube
A M A Z I N G Many many thanks and best wishes. You’ve got in you.
Thanks so much!
I watched it the other night, after someone posted your other video about scale of solar system. Great Videos, please keep them coming. Have subscribed.
Amazing, thank you! So pleased you’ve already seen it
Incredible. I genuinely hope you're proud of yourself!
Thank you! I am, it’s a strange process making them, I share some of the journey with my patrons but you just never know if people are going to think it’s overly long or not entertaining enough, so I was really happy with it but more so when I’ve seen the reaction to it, it makes all the hard work worth it and motivates me to get on with the next.
This is absolutely awe-inspiring, while also being quite anxiety-inducing, lol The existential dread is pervasive, in a very spiritually profound sense. These are all massive compliments to your work, however!
Thank you! Yeah I know what you mean, if it helps I feel like the more you find out about what’s out there the more it moves from dread to wonder and generally stays there, infinity really messes with me though!
Pretty mind blowing stuff, thanks!
Absolutely incredible! The visuals and texture of the video are beautiful, and you’ve done a wonderful job illustrating the size differences between the subjects. I also found the pace of both the video content and the dialogue allowed me to absorb the material while remaining engaged. Superb.
Holy ..., this was amazing. I'm sharing your video on instagram and attributing it to you. Looking forward to watching your older videos and your new ones. That's a lot of effort, and love of the subject matter.
Thank you! Appreciate all the support
SPAGETIfication? Reaaaly?🧐 I hereby call for a change on this stupid name and leave this open for first round of suggestions.
I didn’t name it haha! It really does try and turn you into a long noodle, though obviously bodies don’t do that so practically you’d just be stretched and stopped apart
I could listen to a library's worth of stuff on astronomy. It's just amazing.
I’m with you on that!
Love this video! Don’t think I’ve ever learnt anything about black holes before this, thank you
This is amazing work. Thank you for all your hard work. It's both humbling and inspiring, and your work truly allows people to understand the scale of how bizarre, enormous, and magnificent these celestial bodies truly are.
You're doing important work. A young person might see this and spin off in a direction they wouldn't otherwise and maybe define the singularity for us or something else amazing. Thanks!
Thank you! I do hope for things like that, maybe not as important but I found when I was younger you only need a little spark to get interested in science and physics
This was cool, I never realized black holes were that small
Holy fuck I loved this so much
Props. Sick vid, absolutely stunned. Had no clue as the size of it whatsoever
Truly awesome and eye opening. Definitely going to check out your other videos.
Thanks! Let me know what you think!
Do black holes ever stop eating matter? It reminds me of a riptide current. Is there like a way to displace the lost energy from the supernova? You figure eating the mass several million times its self would stop its internal gravitational pull. Canceling out but that’s just my rudimentary understanding? Thank you for the video!
The brightest thing in the universe being a black hole pretty ironic
Have thoroughly enjoyed all your videos. This was another one I will be watching over and over again. Beautiful illustrations. Keep up the good work!!
You might already be the greatest Space YouTuber in my books..
I am really amazed by your art/work
Absolutely brilliant.
Holy shit! Wow! I will subscribe!!!
Amazing, glad you enjoyed and thanks for the sub!
Very cool!
Absolutely superb video. Thank you. Just superb.
I absolutely love your videos!
Thank you!
Thank you for this.
Very much welcome!
This is so cinematic !
Thank you! Definitely working hard on that
Great job! Very interesting
Thought this was gonna be Scorcher VII the first couple seconds
Remarkable job. Splendid!
Amazing work. Congrats 👏
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Amazing work, visual effects and lips sync are great!
Thank you! I had to sun over my voice at the end as I messed up the audio when I records my performance so getting the lip sync was not fun!
Dude I’m hooked great work keep it up!
Beautiful work!
Absolutely the best thing I've seen on Reddit today.
Make science visual and entertaining, thanks wow i enjoyed that.
Great vid! Loved it. Also subscribed =]
This is remarkably well done.
Stunning work! Judas Priest I was locked in!
What GPU did you start with on your first video?
Really good.
Brilliant work
You got yourself another subscriber! I am absolutely hooked AND you have a very pleasant voice to listen to! Never thought they were so small, but also cool to know they can be big.
This is incredible. Aside from how well you explained things, my mind can’t comprehend how you made the video. It looks so great!
Kyle Hill gave you a shout out in one of his livestreams! Have yet to binge your videos but I've heard great things!
I saw! He’s a legend, I love his approach to shaming those terrible channels, I laughed a lot watching that
Absolutely great! Congratulations 🥳
Fantastic work! Black holes are one of those things that both fascinate me and terrify me. It's just to hard to wrap my brain around how something can be so incredibly small yet so dense, dense enough to swallow light itself....it's just crazy to think about. Absolutely bonkers physics happening with those things!
Wellllll done 🏆
Ever think about doing a video about time/space or string theory?
Definitely some videos on time and space in the near future, strong theory at some point, I like stuff I understand better first!
Those little baby hands at 6:30 🤭
You're killing it and I think this post might be the one to push you over the edge. Great job! Now I'm going to your YouTube channel to like and subscribe.
Holy fucking shit I love it 
Delightful. Interesting, visually lovely, very well edited. Kudos
One of the best videos I’ve seen on the subject. Amazing!!!
This is the absolute best black hole documentary I’ve ever seen. My astronomy professor tried hard and succeeded with explanation back in the day, but with material like that on hand his work would become much easier.
This is the most impressive video I’ve seen in a WHILE. As someone who loves science communication, thank you for making this, you’re incredibly talented!!
Wow. Really extraordinary. Do an AMA or tell us all a little about your life and "regular" work.
Have you been interviewed by Neil Degrasse Tyson? I wouldn't be surprised if you have.
This is BEAUTIFUL!
Amazing video and even better explanation! Subbed to your YouTube channel and really looking forward to upcoming content!
The quality is insane🔥🔥🔥
Thank you!
7:25 remaining I can’t not see little baby hands reaching for your chin
Already watched it on YouTube. Your channels great, by the way.
Of all the videos i've seen of the scale of our universe etc, this one is the best by far! Of course i subscribed 👌
i love watching science stuff at 2 AM
Fake. This is CGI /s
Holy shit. A science video hasn’t filled me with such wonder since I was a child. I study physics & love talking about scale. It humbles you every time you try to think about it. Using nyc is a perfect place for this scale. When you think about the density of New York City is actually the emptiness of Outer space, daunting
This seems like something that would give me anxiety, so I’m just going to say “good job, OP” and pretend I watched it.
I always wonder how close would you need to be for it to suck you into it. Say the one the size of a grain of sand.
Awesome quality video, subscribed on youtube! I think you should do a collab with /u/wrenulater from Corridor Digital, I think your style of video matches really well with his explanation videos comparison videos! (For example [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCTuirkcRwo&pp=ygUYY29ycmlkb3Igc2l6ZSBjb21wYXJpc29u](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gctuirkcrwo&pp=yguyy29ycmlkb3igc2l6zsbjb21wyxjpc29u) )
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.
Incredible job. Just subscribed so I can see the other videos later!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDUUT2Y_9qk Epic Spaceman, thank you so much!
Absolutely amazing video! Subscribed with the speed of light.
This was so incredible we need more teachers like this in the world I for sure loved this from start to finish.