The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies - Quasars

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Learning about space feels like the equivalent of gaining awareness of the world around you as a kid

It's absolutely nuts that most of the universes mass is located between galaxies, not inside them

1:21 nice little cheeky gomu gomu no mi reference.

Quasars, active galactic nuclei, and star-formation "quenching" are some of the most complex things in astrophysics, yet this video explains & animates them beautifully! Great work as always!

People aren't talking enough about the phenomenal background music. It really enhances the visuals and the information being told

Applause to the team who worked on this, animation was eye candy and the writers explained everything clearly and simply!

Every space-related Kurzgesagt video makes me realize that how valuable and beautiful our own planet is.

"If theres a hole theres a goal"
. -guy who got sucked into a black hole

The concept of time dilation near black holes always blows my mind. It's mind-bending to think about how time can slow down near such immense gravitational fields. Black holes truly bend the rules of our familiar reality.

Shoutout to the motion graphics artists behind this

It so hard to comprehend stuff like that, honestly I spent a lot of time just wrapping my head around the fact that the time when something happens and when we see it due to the light needing to move through vasts amount of space to seem like a mere dot or line in the sky is amazing to me like what if a minute streak across the sky happened when my ancestors were alive? and it took THIS long to reach someone's eyes? just makes you appreciate everything a little bit more.

Space is terrifying. Beautiful, but terrifying. Ever since I first learned of quasars, I've wondered if some day Earth might get blasted by the polar jets from a quasar. We'd have no way to detect it, much less defend ourselves from it. Too often it feels like we are a sitting duck in a sea of violent chaos.

Really love the animation in this episode. Somehow even better than usual. Amazing job, folks!

That visuals at 5:50 where you can not only see the radio lobes, but they illustrate how it carves out a void in space is just amazing visual communication.

The amount of work this video must’ve taken is unbelievable. Stunning visuals and spot-on soundtrack!

Love the fact that one of the animators put the gomu gomu no mi fruit in the sky as a constellation.

Can we talk about how INSANELY beautiful Kurzgesagt's animations got lately? I mean, they were always beautiful, but FOR GOD'S SAKE, just look at this! They somehow manage to keep their charming characteristic style, while making their science videos a full art piece. I can't put my finger on what exactly makes their new animation so amazing, but it's just STUNNING and every time I finish watching one I can't wait to see the next one.

Alright which one of the cheeky animators snuck in a one piece reference? 1:22

1:04 "What are they? And how do they mold the structure of the universe at their will?" ... Coming up, right now!
Just an Arvin Ash reference.

Really great explanation, with great music and visuals!
Thanks for the video!

The animation on the past few videos is just freaking breathtaking. I can only imagine how much it is going to improve in the future.

The animation for Kurzgesagt has evolved so much but Steve Taylor hasn’t changed a bit and I find that incredible.

Quasars have been my favorite thing in space since I was 5 years old and I'm so glad you made a video about them.

6:56 well done. what lovely music.

It always trips me up to think that there could come a point where the aftermath of these sorts of things are observed in real time (assuming our civilization/planet lasts that long). If the internet still exists in the year 4023, hello, people of the future!

WOW! The animation team did *not* hold back this time! Absolutely beautiful, the new way they used to animate the millions of stars in the background looked so pretty!

The art style and the background music it just mixes beautifully

Hey kuezgesagt team I really appreciate what your doing and hope you all keep up the good work. My request is that you guys have sone videos on the ways the types of civilizations in the universe get energy.
Type 1: Nuclear Power ( I think so)
Type 2: Dyson spheres
Type 3: Black hole bombs
So my request is you guys continue the series and make the same research and videos for type 4 and 5 civilizations as well. Love you guys and keep up the good work❤❤❤

Kurgesagt is going from studying human biology, wars, and atomic physics to giant lasers and galaxy destroying monsters while sounding incredibly informative and serious. It's one of my favorite topics and ive heard a million times, i click on your guys videos.

Wouldn't it be crazy to have a civilization development and virtual evolution game with artistic visuals from Kurzgesagt?

I just LOVE the detail of Steve saying "This is what a Quasar is" when the background music says it.

"Monsters exploding and screaming into the void..."
Dang, Kurzgesagt, that's a crazy af metaphor!

The art style of the video looks gorgeous🤩

Quasars were always so unbelievably cool and amazing to me. Glad the channel made the prefect video for them!

*4:58* The not so subtle reference to the Quasi-star video with this scene was very wholesome and sweet.

They have just discovered a new Quasar: J0529 - 3451. His diameter is 7 light years , he is 500 trillion times more luminous than the sun. It took 12 billions years to reach our eyes. It is today the most luminous object in all the observable universe.

Usually the Kurzgesagt animations are extremely good, but this one is another level

I’m a 15 year old learning how to animate with adobe aftereffects/illustrator, and every time I watch a new Kurzgesagt video my mind is blown-- this is incredible

I had to do a presentation on quasars, too bad that I missed a few good points, I had 3 slides to work with so I think I got down some good information for what space I had

And again, thanks for the video, kurzgesagt! I've watched it with interest 🙂

It's hard to imagine, but one of my favourite parts about this is that, if you pointed a quasar at an entire galaxy, it would be shredded apart by the massive radiation beam coming off of the accretion disk. We like to think about powerful anime characters throwing attacks that split worlds but imagine a single blast that even just lightly strobing for one or two passes capable of not only shreding every habitable world unlucky enough to have a line of sight with it, but literally capable of cooking a star and shunting enough mass off of it that it could go extinct. Of course it would take hundreds of thousands of years just for the blast wave to reach their targets but this would be doom to an entire sci-fi universe by itself

Shoutout to the motion graphics artists behind this. This is hands down the best quasar artist depiction I will ever see.

A wonderful video just like all the others Kurzgesagt has done. Best educational channel on KRplus hands down. Easily the best and most entertaining channel for adults and kids alike. Makes me wish I still had children young enough to sit and watch educational videos with. But I still love watching them on my own.
I won't thank you for putting that terrifying visualization of a fanged quasar into my head. I'll say this much: Kurzgesagt does not gratuitously horrify us, but it certainly doesn't shy away from showing us scary stuff in an honest and straightforward way.
Like I said, honest education at its best. And sometimes knowledge is scary.

This is what a quasar is. That line gives me shivers whenever I listen to the brilliant background track.

Not only some black holes can jet out insane amounts of energy, but they also spin incredibly fast AND its extreme gravity can bend the space itself around them. Nothing truly compares to its power. What a unit.

The quality of this video is almost as incredible as the content expressed within it. You guys are the engine of scientific curiosity on KRplus. Amazing work.

I came back to rewatch it just for the soundtrack, it's so awesome

Ah. I just realized why i like your space videos lol. It reminds me of this old cassette tape collection of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that I had as a kid...

This channel shows how there is no limit to the amount of hardwork and knowledge that can be put into a single KRplus video. Keep up the lovely work! ❤

This was so hard to comprehend. i feel like when i think about how big things are in the universe and how far thigns are and how old things are, i can physically feel my brain hurt. I feel like if one day someone was like "yea all that universe stuff was a lie" i'd be like "oh, honeslty i believe it" because these concepts are literally just so out of this world and it makes me feel so small. I absolutely love this YT channel for making me feel like that and putting these absolute high-level topics next to cute galaxies with baby faces. I swear this is the only way i'd ever be able to understand a fraction of these concepts.

I love the references in your videos. Like the one piece one at 1:22

I don't usually remember all the info because i just love the art style so much i barely listen

1:12That’s a Devil fruit in the from one piece

You guys are the reaosn why im so interested in biology and space. Specifically zoology its so cool how animals are unique

i just love how there's a playlist labeled 'existential crisis playlist'

It's insane how the thumbnail of you guys' videos evolved over the years. This looks so amazing

I introduced my 6 year old to your channel and he fell in love with your videos, he's watching them hours on end and I couldn't have been happier. The amount of information he's learning is amazing! Big thanks to the animation team for their attractive work, and the others for the research and resourcws provided. Very grateful to you ❤

The explanation, animation and soundtrack is sickkk

I'm shocked at how you guys are able to pump out so much content in such a small time gap.
God knows how long this video must've taken you guys to make.
Thank you so much for continued assistance in helping us understand the world around us. (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

The animations getting better each new video. I would love to look at the sky and see an constellation resembling an akuma no mi 1:20
I loved this reference ❤

This has to be without a doubt one of the most beautiful videos you guys made
So many pretty frames and imagery mixed with the background music.
Its just amazing

At 1:20, the image on the right is the Gomu Gomu no Mi from One Piece (the curly stem on top gives it away)
Fun to see the odd references like these in the videos 👍

I've been watching this guys videos for 2 hours straight. It's my addiction now...

2:24
Can we just take a minute to appreciate to animation artist!! That picture is so sick, these black holes are literally the monsters of the cosmos!! Love every video from Kurgesgart but seriously the animations get much better each new video 😍

1:22 Luffy's Devil Fruit is indeed one of the weird things in the sky _😫_

This channel has some of the most fun looking thumbnails and animation style

I really liked your teaching and of course the editing

0:18 “Like the roots of some massive tree,” YGGDRASIL??

The background score for the black holes is absolutely superb. In previous videos it used to be simple but now it's on another level❤

The background music a the beginning gave me slight chills.

I need a shirt and hoodie of that monster Quasar blasting out energy. It looks awesome.

Your artstyle, the choice of music, you really are the best of the best in terms of animation. Keep up the good work!

Yet another well crafted kurzesagt video. Honestly, kudos to the team at work here, turning rather abstract and obscure topics into some of the best animated educational videos I've seen on this app!

I'd love to see a comparison of things we see going on in the universe today to what is actually happening locally to the object; predictions for the "future" of stars and systems whose information is only reaching us today!

I think it would be really cool if you guys made these videos in HDR. Especially these space-themed ones!

I really believe in this channel’s ability to inspire new generations of people with more engaging and especially fun forms of learning. I love how Kurzgesagt fights for optimism when the future seems so bleak most of the time

Learning about the universe always seems terrifying, but there is so much beauty hidden in that fear. This is mostly made up of the terrifying bits though.

I have been watching Kurzgesagt since a very young age- Now I have to always re-watch the videos since I really love these,

Always the best place to find an understanding

Ive been watching your guy’s content for a few years now, and i’ve been so inspired by it for a long time. I’ve never been a huge fan of school, and as corny as it sounds, these videos and your channel helped me get through 8th grade, finally ending middle school.
Now as a brand new sophomore in high school, I wanna say thank you to the entire team for inspiring me to learn more about this kinda stuff and allowing me to keep going through school.❤

Don't usually get concerned over this but, gotta admit the idea of a super gigantic energy time bomb in the core of a galaxy is oddly terrifying...

The guy that made the OST for this video deserves a raise, all the time I'm listening to a banger of a song

These videos are always fun to watch but they also always leave me with a deep and overwhelming existential dread that I've just gotten used to at this point.

16 minutes since uploading and already 54000 views. The team at Kurzgesagt make truly thought provoking and inspiring videos. Well done on another amazing one.

The music in this one is awe-inspiring and badass at the same time.

Loved the one piece reference at 1:22

Love your channel! I never missed a single video you released.
The One Piece easter egg at 1:21 made me love you even more!

Kurzgesagt does such a good job at making things fun and interesting. As a person that struggles with ADHD it's hard focusing on things, but now I couldn't do anything but focus. Kurzgesagt does such a phenominal job at this, and I learn so much from these videos. I also want to show love for the sound team, they did such a good job here.

with every kurzgesagt video, sitting in my room watching my phone seems more and more bizarre, and incomprehensible

Honestly, you make the best videos on the platform.

This video shows how much we learned and how incredibly much we still have to learn

I've been watching this channel for four years and I've seen the huge improvements they have made in there animation . Its just so breath taking ❤❤

1:22 there was a gomu fruit just chillin😂

The intro gives me goosebumps everytime I watch it

1:21 Gomu-Gomu no Mi?

How did I not see this came out!! It’s so fun having those micro videos about the body and cells (was a microbiologist, now in nursing) so the physiologic stuff is awesome and interesting to me… but man, the space videos.. shoooottt, they go hard 😮💜

Minor note - It's practically impossible to fall "straight" into a black hole. Afaik, they all spin at extreme velocities, quite literally dragging spacetime around them as they spin. This forces anything coming close to the blackhole to take curved paths around the event horizon as Space itself is twisted like a corkscrew around it.

Great video, i also liked that Gomu GoMu no mi

I always love to learn more in depth about the universe, and this provides some kind of background for what a quasar is so I can grasp at the understanding of the one mod that weaponizes quasar black holes for a game of stellaris