Something Never Before Seen Passed Between Us and Another Galaxy

Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an unusual detection of something invisible between our galaxy and Large Magellanic Cloud Links: Renee Key, Edward N. Taylor, Ken C. Freeman, Jeremy Mould, Abhijit Saha, Anais Möller, Timothy M. C. Abbott, Alan R. Duffy. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19375 Kailash C. Sahu, Jay Anderson, Stefano Casertano, Howard E. Bond, Andrzej Udalski, Martin Dominik, et al. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac739e Subo Dong, Zexuan Wu, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Andrzej Udalski, Przemek Mróz, Krzysztof A. Rybicki, et al. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.g79cnp622 S. Sugiyama, M. Takada, N. Yasuda, N. Tominaga. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05840 P. Mróz, A. Udalski, J. Skowron, R. Poleski, S. Kozłowski, M. K. Szymański, et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23276 P. Mróz, Y.-H. Ryu, A. Gould, A. Udalski, I. Soszyński, M. K. Szymański, et al. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aaaae9 P. Mróz, A. Udalski, R. Poleski, A. Gould, I. Soszyński, M. K. Szymański, et al. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/abbfad Other videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi3I47j-3oo 0:00 Strange discovery from Large Magellanic Cloud 1:14 What is this gravitational lensing? 2:45 Why this event is so unusual and how it was found 4:15 Possible explanations 5:10 Why a black hole would be super exciting 6:55 Implications 7:20 Other similar detections in the last few years 9:20 Why Phoebe detections is still so exciting 10:30 What's next? 11:30 Conclusions #darkmatter #gravitationallensing #astrophysics Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses