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Phœnix A

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Sep 7, 2026

PeterHOST
37:27
With the planet's core completely gone, Earth would keep collapsing in on itself, but so fast that you wouldn't even have time to blink.
PeterHOST
37:36
scary but that wasn't even the worst of the black holes meet phoenix a star the baddest most massive black hole we've ever laid eyes on this stupendously large black hole has a mass of 100 billion suns its event horizon stretches 590 billion kilometers Just so you can picture the sheer size of this gigantic cosmic deathtrap, it's 100 times wider than the distance from Pluto to the Sun.
PeterHOST
38:14
Yeah, and it would swallow all planets in our solar system like they were nothing.
PeterHOST
38:21
At first, without warning, strange distortions would appear in the sky.
PeterHOST
38:26
That's gravitational lensing from the most massive black hole in the observable universe.
PeterHOST
38:32
Phoenix A-star's titanic gravity would be warping the fabric of space around it.
PeterHOST
38:39
Even before this monstrosity passed through the Kuiper Belt and the outer regions of our solar system, every planet in the neighborhood would feel its galactic presence.
PeterHOST
38:50
Neptune and Uranus would start to drift off their orbits.
Andrew MayneHOST
36:18
Wow.
Andrew MayneHOST
36:21
And it's, there's also Phoenix
speaker_2UNKNOWN
36:24
a, which is even bigger.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
36:25
Like, um, If you look at,
Andrew MayneHOST
36:32
they have a graphic, and they'll show you Phoenix A, ton 618, and then orbit of Neptune.
Andrew MayneHOST
36:38
And Phoenix A is, like, so much, much bigger.
Andrew MayneHOST
36:41
Like, it's several astronomical units across.
Andrew MayneHOST
36:43
Like, it's insane.

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