What's The Brightest Thing In the Universe?

Follow Michael Stevens for neat stuff: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce SOURCES BELOW 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