Every Type of Black Hole Explained in 14 Minutes

Original 2D space animation by Orbitimbre. Cosmic challenges, planet stories, and surprising endings. Join the Orbitimbre crew for custom emoji and loyalty badges: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtPoouzahVkQOs2gA206XRw/join Tiny has eaten Earth's satellites again — but what kind of black hole IS he? We go through every type of black hole, from the smallest our physics can describe to monsters bigger than the Solar System, and one that may have no edge at all. In full 3D, with real light-bending black holes. 00:00 Which one is Tiny? 00:29 01 Planck Black Hole 01:24 02 Primordial Black Hole 02:23 03 Kugelblitz 03:16 04 Micro Black Hole 04:11 05 Stellar-Mass Black Hole 05:19 06 X-Ray Binary 06:01 07 Rogue Black Hole 07:02 08 Binary Black Hole 08:08 09 Intermediate-Mass Black Hole 08:57 10 Supermassive Black Hole 09:55 11 Quasar 10:41 12 Blazar 11:23 13 Ultramassive Black Hole 12:00 14 SLAB (Stupendously Large Black Hole) 12:44 15 Naked Singularity 13:36 The verdict Science notes • Every type is labelled by certainty: CONFIRMED, CANDIDATES, ONE FOUND, HYPOTHETICAL or RULED OUT?. • Kugelblitz: allowed by general relativity, but a 2024 study (Physical Review Letters 133, 041401) found the Schwinger effect leaks the energy away first. • A black hole the size of a grain of sand would weigh about as much as the Moon; an Everest-mass one would be smaller than an atom. • A ten-Sun black hole is about 60 km across; near small black holes, tides would spaghettify you before the horizon. • Sagittarius A* is less than a ten-thousandth of the Milky Way's mass — the whole galaxy's gravity keeps us in orbit. • The nearby-blazar scene is a hypothetical scenario. Black holes are rendered by tracing bent light rays; disks, colours and sizes are illustrations, not to scale. Sources Kugelblitz — arxiv.org/abs/2405.02389 Rogue black hole OGLE-2011-BLG-0462 — arxiv.org/abs/2201.13296 · arxiv.org/abs/2503.07820 Omega Centauri intermediate-mass black hole — Nature (2024), doi:10.1038/s