What's The Brightest Thing In the Universe?
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The Yin Yang was a bright idea. But what's the brightest thing in the universe What a transition
Yin Yang
Vsauce is the art of presenting something, asking a seemingly unrelated question and then ending the video with a connection of the answer, and the something.
@@shneancy220 Or is it?
He connected it with a pun...that's amazing
And the fact that the video ends with it too
It's actually the lights when ya mom wakes you up
Tom Lieber you’re right
It burns
That’s a flashbang
Lol
Omfg, it's true
Michael's videos are the definition of timeless You can watch his stuff any year and still feel the same amount of awe and information satisfaction
Facts
True but I thought Our earth fits 1.5 Million times into the sun?
@@Ant1ev0not sure which part of thr video your are referencing but mass is not size. more mass with the same size = denser. sun is 330,000x earths mass, but it's volume is 1.3x million earths. a black hole can have the same mass as the sun but take up a fraction of the space.
Black holes have mass concentrated at their very core in an infinitely small point, giving them infinite mass
yeah the whole Andromeda milky way collision bit won't feel dated for another few billion years
This video is a masterpiece which I keep coming back to. Thank you for sparking my curiosity in astronomy.
Brightest Things 4. Suns 3.Quasar 2. Blazar 1, Turning on the kitchen light on 3:00 AM
For me it's the occasional bathroom trip at night. I just keep it off.
Actual 1. Turning your phone on when its full brightness at 3 am
1. Quasar.
They're called "stars" not "suns".
@@platinumvoid1648 u have to be just joking
Did you know that the sun is so big, you can fit an entire football field in it?
Are you joking or you actually think that the sun is just as big as a football field? (pls don’t whoooosh me)
1,135,000,000,000,000 times
FireHun20 The joke is that Michael commonly uses football fields as big units of measurement. The statement is true but very obvious. And now the joke is ruined because I explained it.
And still have room for a chessboard. I mean, that's big m8
@@leni6505 woosh
the fact that 2 completely different civilizations that probably didnt even known each other took both this symbol while it was a black holes eating stars thing that humanity would find out in thousands of years later its just crazy
9 billion light years hits hard af To me…that 100,000th photo from Hubble was the most mind blowing part aside from that legendary closing
We are literally looking back in time, it's so incredibly magnificent. I can hardly describe the emotions it brings out in me.
Hard agree! It's wild how bright that quasar is. Imagine seeing it up close
@@theunknown21329 that one fish from SpongeBob who yells, “MY EYES” as they are burning 😂 And that’s probably from a billion ly away
Teacher: You are a bright student, Michael. Michael: Or am I? * Vsauce music plays *
Yes
Boss music
There's vsauce music? I wanna hear it :P
Teacher: oh no
Minetendo 0000 kzhead.info/sun/ZMiwpZihjXNnrKc/bejne.html
Micheal: * spends 12 minutes trying to explain the brightest things ever * People in the comments: “hehe no it’s my phone brightness at 3 am”
no u
Stupid jokes go brrrr
It’s actually the iPad brightness at max at 3 am
@@somethingiguess8486 what a madlad
No u
As an aspiring astronaut, I love seeing content like this! There is always more to learn and as a space buff, this is just a fun topic for me to engage with. Thanks!
It's been a year man u an astronaut yet or still just aspiring
@@sierpinskibrotit probably takes a hot minute😂
@@sierpinskibrot lmao
Get it!
I Love how the Yin Yang-Cosmos thing looks like a Phi equation
Operator: 911 what’s your emergency American: uh my family’s scared of the sky
Operator: Sir that's the galaxy.
I mean I'm scared of the sky too
Made me think because living in mexico in the city you still can see the stars more clearly. I use to go to the country side with to my extented family.for vacation and its a small spured area. Houses can be close together but at the same time far apart feom other small homes and the atreet lights were also spured and far apart so when it's night time its really dark ams the sky is littered with millions of stars. It was beautiful. When i was 8 i came to the US and was disappointed at how empty the sky is.
The sky visually assaulted my wife in a dark alley. Please catch this sick scumbag.
@@seanceknowles2911 I grew up in the U.S and i have forever been disappointed since I've seen the true galaxy XD
The final yin yang connection is mind blowing
Vsauce always blowing everyone's mind
i noticed it right from the begining
@@ghostghost7304 no one knows what's he's thinking you are lying
420th like lmao
@@GoofyGoobyEsther think about it tho, if there WAS an alien that could read peoples minds, it would make sense that they’d be watching vsauce
The brightest thing in the universe is my face when vsauce uploads
it's crazy that this is made before we even had an accurate idea of what a black hole's accretion disc looks like, since Interstellar invented the rendering technology necessary to get the image and it wouldn't release until like 7 months after this, and then we didn't get a real picture until the Webb telescope. Still very cool a decade later.
Imagine calling the police during a blackout because you saw “clouds”
It is American thing. We are not allowed to say that .
@@keisuketakahashi3597 america✖️ US✔️
@@user-kx5es4kr4x -Us? Get that commie -_-sh*t-_- out of my country!-
GD Spam King He said "American" so does that mean he should say "USAn"? XD
@@phanglertheangler2812 Nah, it’s United Statesian
Vsause: The yin yang symbol was a bright idea. Me:Yup Vsause: But what's the brightest thing in the universe? Me: How did we get here?
+Christian Morales It's at the end of the video.
Lol, was about to comment that.
#ALOOMENARDYCANFERMIED
Who's Vsause?
You blew my mind more than Vsauce
The last picture's transition to yin yang was so much suspense revealing, and the soundtrack gave the final chill.
It’s your brain
Blowing my mind years later while I'm sitting here eating my not fast airplane.
Lol
Not fast airplane and jelly sandwich
@@giancarlo418 Lol
i ate a bowl of some tasty not slow fork.
@@markmcpheters so you mean discussion so fast spoon? You ate disgusting cheerios
The brightest thing in the universe is obviously the light from the school projector
Lmao
Fiona Martin nah that’d be the chip packet opening at 3am
Or I S I T ? ?
Fiona Martin nah it’s when the shampoo bottle drops in the shower
no its are phone brightness on max
Watching his old videos as he blows our minds, gives me literal chills, so many chills
It's when you look at your phone at night
Weird how your comment was hearted 9 years after the video came out...
@@gupadre8255 I bet it's Vsauce's only way of communicating information. He's trying to send us a message from his cell and we have to look at the first letter of every comment he likes.
michael, please turn the lights on michael: what is *l i g h t*
what is the speed of darkness
But what is light*
*music plays*
And what does it weigh
@@mal_idk1488 or does it
Mom: Honey, don’t look at the sun. It’s too bright. Kid: But what is the BRIGHTEST thing in the universe??? **Kid grows up to be Vsauce**
Dead
someone needs to make a video about that story
*weird music plays*
*looks at the brightest thing*
The Cubic Cuber your funny
8:49 KOCMOC endscreen
go outside
😂@@numptaloid
Gd reference even here...
8 years. Feels like yesterday. Its 10% of an average lifetime.
bro thanks for the comment i couldn't realise that
There must be a global holiday in which every light city should be turned off for at least 10 minutes, so that we can appreciate the beauty of a truly night sky
YES!
When I go camping in the summer, there are obviously lights. I would always sneak out with my dad and look at the stars because the sky would be full with them, like almost more stars than black.
joe mama same, I do it almost everyweek, We go to a cabin we bought, it was basically a second house, i don’t even know why we call it a cabin, the top floor is the roof that has a telescope a dome, not too large and not too big, we sleep there usually
But isn't Earth Hour a kind of way to do this? I know that EH is just for saving energy and such but maybe we can take advantage of that
Yea I never saw a space cloud
I swear, if Michael was running a lemonade stand and I asked him how good it was, I would end up learning the laws of thermodynamics and quantum physics.
SPEEDOWAGON
Speedwagon best waifu
how the hell did spamton get to Michael Stevens- the fandoms I'm in won't leave me 😩
Lemon and learn
“But what does it mean to be… GOOD?”
y'all... does anyone know which song is playing around 8:43 ?? but anyways, i think space and black holes are my #1 favorite things of all time, and Michael explaining them makes me wanna learn even more. i will always come back to his videos if i wanna just experiment with him from within my own home, even if these videos are almost a decade old, I will never get tired of watching them. thank you Michael, you are truly something so amazing.
I like how Vsauce starts the video with something very interesting but also completely unrelated to the topic of the video yet somehow connects them.
Isn't crazy to think when you look up, you're looking in the past?
Everything you see is in the past
Yeah technically it is, Michael said it himself
A lot of the stars we see in the sky at night are from ancient past we have no clue about
Brian Duneman a lot of star we see are already dead but there so far their that they appear still here
What's creepy is a lot of the stars we see in the sky are remnants of the stars they once were and a some of them may be black holes now.
Sun to pluto and back- Me: damn that's long 1.5 million times. Me: Ok, WTF?
lol i had the same raction
I literally said it lol
I almost spilled lol
Yeah I was like What the Frick 😂🤣
800 light years
Thank you Vsauce! I learned so many things from you! And I love your content about anything cuz you explain everything so good!
6:39 looks like some alien left an air pod in the right image.
lol
He can go from “bright idea” to “what’s the brightest thing in the universe” and not make it weird.
He does make it weird, but its already normal for us
I would bet he comes up with video ideas while high and writing down his stream of consciousness. Then actually does the research when sober 😂
If you understand this video like a nerd you can say that he was talking about a Yin-Yan all this time and the intro was related.
Notice the outro
@@notsufyan7341 Profile pic checks out
Blazar3c454 sounds like a xboxlive account owned by a 13 year old named Duncan
That's very specific
@@totiny3262 Yet strangely accurate
This comment is underrated. I vote for you to get more likes.👍
Actually.
I feel like it be more of a Logan
7:30 - pure chills. I always come back to this video specifically for that part!
It's been 9 years, still the best video on KZhead about Quasars.
It's Vsauce's best video too
The brightest thing in the universe is the light from my smartphone screen when I get a text while I'm trying to sleep. I can never squint hard enough.
To true
just turn down the brightness.....
+Crazy Boris Productions Wow you're here
shine to foxy. cause you know you can do better than using a flashlight.
I have no friends so my smartphone is a glorified alarm clock.
"The symbol was a bright idea... But what's the brightest object in the entire universe?" Jesus... that was uhm.... that was quite the leap.
I imagine this is your first trip to Vsauce?
Muzammil Halim huh? No, he doesn't usually make that big of jumps though, actually this isn't even the first time I've watched this video, just haven't seen it in a couple years.
Seriously that was the wildest transition that i've yet to see anyone top.
Well that escalated quickly.
SarcasticDragon Gaming q
I knew all about these phenomenon but the way Michael puts it, amazing!
There being no artificial light is probably why it was so easy for ancient civilizations to track and study the stars. Everything was just so clearly visible.
The brightest thing in the entire universe is my phone at 3am with maximum brightness
Same
Well, you're not wrong.
Lmao and its 4am rn and i had my brightness on max
Bruh
My brother was so intrigued by light bulbs and how it works he went to the garage, with a lot of lightbulbs connected them all, then when I went to fetch him, he lighted them all, it was so bright, all i could see was spots in my eyes, for a couple of seconds or minutes even, i forgot, it was like 10 years ago, also it all just fuck blow up so it became brighter
"Calling dark matter 'not bright' is kind of like calling your peanut butter sandwich a 'not fast airplane'." Vsause - 2014
...Because we don't even know if "Dark matter" is actually a form of matter. It's just an unknown source of gravity. Neil DeGrasse Tyson has said a more appropriate name for it would actually be "dark gravity." And this isn't to be confused with dark energy either, which is the mysterious force responsible for the expansion of the universe to keep accelerating (which we can observe and have shown in experiments) as opposed to eventually slowing down like we would have guessed.
Deathbrewer well no the main reason he said that is because dark matter doesn't interact with light as far as we can tell. So it doesn't have a brightness so to speak
Aaron Of Doom Vsauce*
Love the videos. Every single episode your final thought so to say is always elegant and profound. Love the content vsauce!!
hi
Michael: "It's kinda like calling your peanut butter sandwich-" Me: "disgusting?" Michael: "A not fast aeroplane"
That ending. MIND. BLOWN.
Ikr
ShyOfFlutter Dayum science, you SCARY!
+MysticMowss Thats what jack said
AGREED
+ShyOfFlutter BOB MARLEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
Only Vsauce can go from talking about the history of yin yang to the brightest thing in the universe spontaneously
And the bring it all back together
I love ur picture
This man isn't a meme for nothing xD
Ayuwoki.
My god, your profile picture is horrifying!
A Decade ago I was just 12 years and this video still lives in my head. Thank you Vsuace, for all the seeds of thoughtfulness, contemplation, and perception that still grow in my head
8:49 Kocmoc
“The process that unshackled the most light is caused by the thing that best imprisons it.” That is a quite impressive sentence at the end
Poetic
Amazingly astounding.
That's true of all things in life. What makes you strongest hurts the most. What gives you the most knowledge is the hardest to understand. The concept of Yin and Yang is everywhere, but just like the dichotomy of black holes and quasars, because it is everywhere it becomes hard to notice. What is most abundant is the hardest to see.
Teacher: Your future is bright Michael: Or is it ~existential crises music intensifies~
XD
Good question
Also Michael: what is the future?
the replies killed my mood
Top 10 hardest vsauce endings
man that ending was dope. had me almost tearing up
HardcoreHammy same
same here
I wonder what the music was :/
me too
@@adrowsypoet book of Secrets by David O'Brian
I love how he starts by saying something completely unrelated
And yet it’s related back to the main point
Or is it?
@@thestranger1164 *music comes in*
bro I said the same thing
I don't think "Hey VSauce, Michael here" is completely unrelated, especially considering the fact that it symbolises his channel.
These videos are just so intrinsically good that I have yet to watch something that has the ability to boggle the mind so profoundly.
8:17 kinda feels like time travelling.
I love how unpredictably predictable Michael’s videos are
Hmm yes the floor here is not made of floor.
the the is not the 🙃
You have it backwards, you mean predictably unpredictable. In other words you can anticipate that the video is going to have tons of random facts but you're not exactly sure how it will unfold until you've watched it. Unpredictability predictable is kinda nonsensical because you're saying the videos are predictable, while simultaneously saying you can't predict whether they will be predictable or not
@@whirlwind872 did we ask for an autobiography?
@@am34_ You clearly have no idea what an autobiography is.
"The symbol was a bright idea." "But what's the brightest thing in the UNIVERSE?"
Qwerty Asdf R00D
ARE YOU SERIOUSLY ASSUMING GAMEBOT5000'S GENDER? Pffff
And I'm not going to argue btw 😅 but I pity you
Mimo-chan xx You're probably 13
it escalated so damn quickly
I feel like every Vsause video is a fragment of one, non-interrupting line of thoughts. Michael thinks about everything and gets to everything from everything, and what we're seeing are just cut out fragments of his never-ending thought process.
The content on his channel feels way more futuristic I usually get back to the channel very often but I feel when I will visit some 30-40 years later if alive (may be from another planet lol) how nostalgic it would feel
"The yin-yang symbol was a bright idea, but what's the brightest thing in the whole universe?" Well that escalated quickly
*Yin-Yang Ying isn't a thing.
@@brovid-19 🤓
@@brovid-19 nerd
@@brovid-19Well SoRrY
@@brovid-19 bruh it is
You wana know what's the brightest thing in the universe? Your future. Have a great day
Copyright
Thanks argus Have a good day 👍😀
Thanks
Thank you
D'Awww :3
8:51 кто от тгк новостей из черри?
I am an eighth grade student and despite not understanding much formulas. I still love your videos. The animation itself makes it so interesting! Thanks 👍
"What's The Brightest Thing In the Universe?" Well it's certainly not my future.
lol
FeelsBadMan
Brightest thing in the universe? The internet's ever-burning flame war.
Ayelis My phone screen when I wake up.
+Evan O (EvanOHT) lol
But there shouldn't even be that. There are two genders and Earth is flat. Fucking deal with it.
LOL, you don't exist. Any evidence to the proof of your existence is #FakeNews.
+Xevan LOL IM DYING IM DYING
8:50 KOCMOC BY CHERRY TEAM!!
It was good old 10 years before every week I wait for vsauce video eagerly to learn lots of new things...
Life of a Black Hole: Sits down in front of the tv with a bowl of stars buttered with planet energy. It then sneezes a quasar.
HAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHA
And when it farts its a BLAZARE
11:35 i hadn't even noticed that Yin-Yang at the end, touche.
It blew me away
I noticed that the first time
The WR104 telescope snipet also looks like the yi and yang
Yet you did,making this comment. If not you would have known only by rewatching the video for you to notice,but doing that will mean you would have known so you would have to think about rewatching the video
@@madmanpecos So? We all did anyways...
The scale of the brightness of these objects is utterly brain crushing and even for me having researched this topic for years, it still baffles me to think that quasars can out shine whole galaxies 🌌 and even galaxy clusters at times.
1:29 ( Blinding Light ) really motivated THE WEEKND to make a great SONG
Seeing Vsause get several million views on all his videos makes me much more optimistic about the future of the human race. . .
but then you realize that flat earthers are attacking vsauce because of his how earth moves video.
lol, Stupidadi!
...
😈
Oh yes
"The Yin and Yang was a bright idea. But what is the brightest object in the universe?" lol, I love your crazy transitions!
'Yes, cookie taste good, but what's inside a black hole?' Vsauce transitions.
haha exactly
Alan Jay Sometimes they're fast and sometimes they're slow. XD
He is the master of segways haha
+raumaan kidwai Under the premiss of this video wouldn't the fastest thing in the universe also be the slowest!!!
Hey Vsauce - I really miss these longer videos. The KZhead GOAT.
Last post before 2022
I get the chills every time he says "And as always, thanks for watching" leaving us hanging for more answers
Idk why I always get creeped out of vsauce vids
Hahhahahaha that's what I thought too.
hello, child.
One of the best videos I've ever watched on youtube. The connection at the end with the beginning was superb.
Agreed, this was an extremely interesting topic that Michael tackled expertly.
i can say with no doubt, this is the best video Vsauce made so far, congratulations, really.
Broughy1322 Never expected to find you here, you scumbag.
Its broughy1322
I did not expect this. This is weird.
8:49 this image i saw in other side
Kocmoc endscreen
My peanut butter jelly sandwich is a fast airplane.
Dead.
my meatloaf is a lethal computer.
This statement is false.
my ramen is a high-tech spaceship
Your sir must have the model 748 peanujet as i have the harrier jellyjet ^-^
*_MY PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH IS A NOT-FAST-AIRPLANE_*
*throws sandwich*
Hahahahahauay
My peanut butter airplane is not a fast sandwich. 🍸😏
@@Slowly_Going_Mad Wanna be my sandwich?😏
@@Bangy No thanks. I just like posting smartass comments. And reading them.
God the ending ❤❤ u nailed it Vsauce hats off Ur narration is one of the best after carl sagan
4:55 I'm sorry. why did that make me crack up out of nowhere? lmao
This is Vsauces best video. I always have my mind blown when the image at the end turns into the Yin Yang symbol. It's so well crafted and comes back around for a unforgettable experience. I come back to this every other month to be blown away again. Thanks Michael
Relatable Leon.
Agree! Also, The soundtrack on the scenes is really spot on
And the music at the last 5 minutea
I have been falling asleep to vsauce videos every night for a solid 1 and a half month at this point. Knew most of them by heart before, know all of them now. My favorite is Cruel Bombs.
U mean 5:14
Micheal: what's the brightest object in the entire universe? Me: you are
Awwww
aw
hE iS nOt An ObjEcT, He hUmAn.
Thats nice of u even tho im not Michael
smooth
discord light mode.
This video has so much information in it I didn't even noticed it was only 11 minutes long..it felt like 30 minutes!
The end pic the black hole and the start resembling a yin-yang is the best thing I ever saw.
It actually gave me goosebumps, along with the music.
How does it show that the Darkness wins? Haha it produces more light than anything else!
Too bad it's not an actual photo. Still pretty impressive, though.
“The brightest things in the universe are caused by the darkest things in the universe..” *screen cuts out* *sees my reflection* 😕🤷🏿♂️
*r a c i s m*
Unflipped Table Damn, Im an idiot. With your comment, I figured it out, lmao
r/im14andthisisdeep
@@aezrithferova6928 I still don't get it...
Add Amazeing OP is white. He was making a more or less racist comment. His screen cuts out and he sees himself, white as fuck.
I just can’t get bored of watching this video over and over.
It is hands down one of the best vsauce, heck best science video on the planet ❤️❤️
On one day every year, the whole world should just turn off all of their lights so we can appreciate our galaxy.
Thats the best idea I've heard in my whole life! Lol
Bryan Jarvis you are brilliant
alex rhind if the whole world shut off its power then the entire internet will shut off and be lost. BEST IDEA EVA.
Lights, not power. Dvoynin.inc
Bryan Jarvis cool mate i thought the same :)
The absolute magnitude of my smartphone at 3:00 am reaches -43.9
-5000
Mine reaches -97.6
It’s over -9000
@Lucasnothappy Cashehatesmath that would be a positive number you have 6 - which means its 3 + you moron
-1337.42069
How does he know all the buzz words and right things to say to blow your mind? Literally have goosebumps at the end! Great vid!
even after eight years, this video still has the best transition in all of KZhead history.
11:32 It’s official, Vsauce is in direct contact with the Cosmos.
Bruh an alien is gonna kidnap you