We Orbited the Black Hole Inside the Largest Galaxy Ever Found

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[00:00:14][music] [music] [music] >> Somewhere in the universe, roughly 1 [music] billion light-years away, there is a galaxy so huge that our entire Milky Way would look insignificant beside it.

[00:00:50]At the center of that galaxy lies a supermassive black [music] hole so powerful, its light can outshine trillions of stars.

[00:01:00]And today, we are leaving our galaxy behind toward this monster.

[00:01:08]And we moved [music] our solar system to its core, to the heart of the largest galaxy ever discovered.

[00:01:16]>> [music] >> As we leave the Orion Nebula, you can notice our speed slightly increasing.

[00:01:24]From here, our galaxy still feels impossibly large.

[00:01:30]But the deeper we travel into space, the smaller >> [music] >> it begins to look.

[00:01:58]We are now accelerating to unimaginable speeds, diving through the Milky Way, crossing immense stellar fields, passing nebulae, star clusters, [music] and entire solar systems in seconds.

[00:02:13]>> [music] >> And for the last time, we look back.

[00:02:35]>> [music] >> Everything humanity has ever known, every ocean, every piece of history, every civilization, now reduced [music] to a fading spiral of light in the darkness.

[00:02:54]>> [music] [music] >> We are traveling at nearly 6 million light-years per second.

[00:03:08]Every tiny [music] point of light you see is an entire galaxy.

[00:03:14]Each one containing billions, sometimes trillions [music] of stars, worlds, moons, possibly civilizations far older than our own.

[00:03:25]In intergalactic [music] space, the distances become so extreme that even galaxies [music] begin to feel small.

[00:03:33]Most of the universe is not filled with stars or planets. It is filled with emptiness.

[00:03:40]>> [music] >> And somewhere ahead of us, hidden in that darkness, lies the [music] largest galaxy ever observed.

[00:03:50]At first, it appears as nothing more than a faint golden glow.

[00:03:55]But with every passing second, it grows larger and larger until it becomes impossible to comprehend.

[00:04:12]IC 1101 is the largest galaxy ever discovered.

[00:04:18]A colossal supergiant galaxy located over 1 billion light-years from the sun.

[00:04:25]Its diameter is estimated to be nearly 6 million light-years across.

[00:04:30]More than 50 times larger than the Milky Way.

[00:04:33]And at the center of this cosmic giant, [music] our solar system now orbits.

[00:04:48]Closer and closer we moved [music] toward the galactic core, toward the monstrous black hole hidden at its [music] center.

[00:05:03]A region flooded with radiation, extreme magnetic fields, and stars [music] packed so densely that entire skies would glow with permanent light.

[00:05:20]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> And this is Saturn.

[00:06:03]But not the Saturn we once knew.

[00:06:09]Near the core of IC 1101, the planet is illuminated [music] by the enormous accretion disk surrounding the black hole.

[00:06:17]>> [music] >> The orange and crimson glow covering [music] its clouds and rings comes from matter being heated to unimaginable [music] temperatures as it spirals toward the singularity.

[00:06:35]Even from enormous distances, the black hole dominates the sky.

[00:06:41]Saturn's rings would reflect that light constantly, creating shadows [music] and colors unlike anything seen in our original solar system.

[00:06:49]And despite the beauty of this place, it would be one of [music] the most hostile environments imaginable.

[00:06:59]Now Jupiter, [music] the largest planet in our solar system.

[00:07:03]Here, beneath the glow of the galactic [music] core, its atmosphere would appear darker, deeper, almost metallic. [music] The immense radiation pouring from the accretion disk would insanely interact with Jupiter's magnetic field, creating auroras so [music] large they could wrap around the entire planet.

[00:07:25]This is Mars.

[00:07:28]And in the distance behind it lies the black [music] hole at the center of IC 1101.

[00:07:35]From the surface of Valles Marineris, the sky would no longer feel empty. It would glow.

[00:07:44]>> [music] >> But this beauty hides something hostile.

[00:07:51]The radiation surrounding [music] the galactic core would slowly strip away planetary atmospheres.

[00:07:59]>> [music] >> Any unprotected [music] world orbiting too close would eventually become sterile.

[00:08:10]>> [music] >> Here, the monster itself.

[00:08:21]>> [music] >> A gravitational abyss so extreme that not even light can escape once it crosses the event horizon.

[00:08:33]Around it, matter spins at incredible speeds, forming an accretion disk hotter than many stars.

[00:08:42]And somehow, Earth now exists here, too.

[00:08:53]>> [music] >> Even from nearly 2.4 light-years away, the central black hole would still dominate the sky.