We Caught a Black Hole "Waking Up" for the First Time!

Almost every giant black hole spends eternity sleeping. Waking up is rare — and catching one right when it awakens was, until now, almost impossible. But the Japanese XRISM telescope managed it. Hundreds of millions of light-years away, in a galaxy that manufactures stars at an industrial rate, it caught a supermassive black hole at the exact stage where it awoke and began to strangle the galaxy itself — firing not one, but three "bullets" of gas at up to 14% of the speed of light. In this video you'll understand how such a monster awakens, why the wind it spews kills the galaxy, and why all this may be a rehearsal for what one day awaits our Milky Way.

⏱️ Chapters:

00:00 The galaxy that kills itself while creating stars
00:56 Why waking up is rare
02:57 What wakes up a giant black hole
04:08 The roar of the monster
06:40 The new eye: XRISM
08:29 Three bullets at once
11:16 The rehearsal of the Milky Way's future
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