This week on the channel +5.2M views this week

AstroKobi's black hole star gets a Soundgarden soundtrack

Five new uploads range from Venus's backward spin to an apple in an infinite box.

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AstroKobi Story of October 19, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Astronomers Just Found A Black Hole Star

What does a black hole star sound like? In AstroKobi's comments, the answer is Soundgarden. Viewers keep reaching for the band's "Black Hole Sun," turning the week's most-watched new upload into an impromptu music reference thread. Others ask whether the object described in "Astronomers Just Found A Black Hole Star" has moved beyond theory, a question the title alone cannot settle.

That upload has passed a million views, but the strongest momentum belongs to "The Apple In An Infinite Box Theory." Posted on October 17, it attracted a much larger first-day audience than any of the week's other releases and is now supplying the biggest daily view count among the channel's active videos. An apple makes a nicely ordinary counterpoint to all that cosmic scale.

The remaining uploads keep the questions close to AstroKobi's usual territory: "The Sun Saved Your Life," "Venus Is Spinning The Wrong Way" and "Something Is Pulling Us Into Deep Space." The Sun video currently sits between the apple and black hole star uploads in daily momentum.

The channel added roughly five million views and 10,000 subscribers over seven days. Among nearby science channels, CrunchLabs also had a substantial viewing week, while PBS Space Time and MinuteEarth are drawing more daily views than usual. AstroKobi's own daily viewing is comfortably above its typical level, with this week's newest thought experiment doing much of the work.

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What viewers say

Black Hole Sun to a whole new level
@rolosilver3256See it on YouTube
Soundgarden wrote a paper on this 30 years ago.
@fedzaliciousSee it on YouTube
Wait wasn't this only a theory a month ago 😭
@kingdom_of_jestersSee it on YouTube

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I feel like this was foretold in a song about 30 years ago 😅
@tylerpeterson19See it on YouTube
Welp now we have space mimics
@PipemanVrSee it on YouTube
* breathing heavily in Soundgarden *
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