What's The Brightest Thing In the Universe?

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music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow
and http://www.audionetwork.com

SixtySymbols video on new black hole theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXTGInIbD_Q

"How Hot Can it Get?" Vsauce video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fuHzC9aTik

"What Will We Miss?" Vsauce video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uiv6tKtoKg

Taijitu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu

Yin Yang blackhole art (made by https://twitter.com/guylar ): http://imgur.com/IpD5L4l

Roman 'Yin Yang': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notitia_Dignitatum

Magnitude:

http://www.1728.org/magntudj.htm
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Light/luminosity.html
http://evildrganymede.net/rpg/world/magnitudes.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitude_(astronomy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_(astronomy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity
http://space.about.com/od/astronomydictionary/g/What-Is-Luminosity.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude\
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_magnitude

Sun and lightbulb:

http://bit.ly/1lxottV
http://lumennow.org/lumens-vs-watts/

R136a1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYnTqI3xGkg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R136a1

most luminous stars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_luminous_stars

gamma ray bursts:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/shocking-burst.html#.Uu_ECmR_uRt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst

Dark Matter:

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.aa.25.090187.002233
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

Accretion Disk:

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010100/a010139/
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011162/index.html
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010800/a010807/index.html
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011110/index.html
http://imgur.com/XyvTD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disc
http://www.superbwallpapers.com/fantasy/black-hole-14517/

Jets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_jet

Quasars:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/25/image/a/
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/1127/index.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130724200605.htm
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/12/ancient-quasar-imaged-when-the-universe-lacked-heavy-metal/
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2003/03/
http://www.space.com/17262-quasar-definition.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3C_273
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazar

Most luminous BLAZAR: http://www.caha.es/the-most-luminous-quasar-state-ever-observed.html

ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_galaxy

Neil Degrasse Tyson book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Black-Hole-Cosmic-Quandaries/dp/0393330168

Thierry Cohen art: http://www.danzigergallery.com/artists/thierry-cohen

light pollution:

http://physics.fau.edu/observatory/lightpol-astro.html
http://www.lightpollution.it/dmsp/artbri.html
http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ve/1438/earth_lights.gif

LA blackout: http://www.pbs.org/seeinginthedark/astronomy-topics/light-pollution.html

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