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These objects are trillions of kilometers away and 10 billion times the mass of our sun #TEDTalks

Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she’s an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes. In a charming talk, she takes us trillions of kilometers from Earth to introduce us to objects that can be 1 to 10 billion times the mass of the sun —…

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Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she’s an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes. In a charming talk, she takes us trillions of kilometers from Earth to introduce us to objects that can be 1 to 10 billion times the mass of the sun — and which shoot powerful jet streams of particles in our direction.

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  1. @enochkambangukalimbwe8099

    February 21, 2026 at 3:07 pm

    So 🪝 hooked that I even forgot to comment 😂😭

  2. @youtubeloveTed

    February 21, 2026 at 3:15 pm

    Thank you for educating people 👍

  3. @onyekanwokike4589

    February 21, 2026 at 3:20 pm

    I’m like most of the crowd, lost.

  4. @BhaiBhai-w4p

    February 21, 2026 at 3:21 pm

    Wowowowow 🎉🎉❤
    Very nice info 😀

  5. @superpainting6280

    February 21, 2026 at 4:15 pm

    More bs

    • @alexanderhindman3115

      February 21, 2026 at 4:32 pm

      Real funny dingus. You one of those who thinks math was “debunked”

    • @Hobby_trails_repository

      February 22, 2026 at 12:59 am

      Concentrate on your art, craft and imagination, leave the brilliant scientific minds alone.

  6. @paulkalule

    February 21, 2026 at 5:18 pm

    but since they are far away, we are looking at the past…not how things are presently.

    • @madjinxify

      February 22, 2026 at 5:05 am

      When I was younger and my science teacher pointed this out, he also made the point of telling us that means it’s not just the past, but things that may not even be there anymore.

  7. @Conteslegendesautremonde

    February 21, 2026 at 7:25 pm

    What do you mean pointed to earth ???😮

  8. @tenaciousz7

    February 22, 2026 at 12:41 am

    *Dr. Jedidah Isler

  9. @komomom3

    February 22, 2026 at 8:13 pm

    GLACIERS MELTING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT /ref

    • @Guitar1nHand

      February 23, 2026 at 11:06 am

      When I was a kid, I was convinced they said “spaceships” rather than glaciers. I was so confused for years 😂

  10. @rogerward8047

    February 23, 2026 at 12:06 am

    They turned on the Hubbell and they saw a big sign in the sky saying “Take a journey inside supermassive hyperactive black holes”. Did Elon put that sign out there?

  11. @TZomato

    February 23, 2026 at 6:12 am

    How those have energy? À light…. Matter time😮

  12. @MichaelAde-4U

    February 23, 2026 at 9:44 am

    I wonder if those black holes were like Earth and they were messing around with a hydrogen Collider. And something must have went wrong

  13. @james17333

    February 23, 2026 at 10:20 am

    It’s all CGI though…

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