Up Next
Back to Show
Watch Preview
NOVA
Black Hole Apocalypse
Season 45
Episode 1
Black holes are the most enigmatic and exotic objects in the universe. They’re also the most powerful, with gravity so strong it can actually trap light. And they’re destructive. Anything that falls into them vanishes…gone forever. But now, astrophysicists are realizing that black holes may be essential to understanding how our universe unfolded—possibly leading to life on Earth and us.
- Airdates
- Wednesday Jul 8, 9:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal
- Thursday Jul 9, 2:00 AM PDT on PBS SoCal
- Thursday Jul 9, 1:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal Plus
- Sunday Jul 12, 9:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal Plus
- Monday Jul 13, 1:00 AM PDT on PBS SoCal Plus
- Monday Jul 13, 7:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal Encore
- Tuesday Jul 14, 3:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal
- Tuesday Jul 14, 4:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal WORLD
- Tuesday Jul 14, 9:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal WORLD
- Wednesday Jul 15, 1:00 AM PDT on PBS SoCal Encore
- Wednesday Jul 15, 5:00 AM PDT on PBS SoCal WORLD
- Wednesday Jul 15, 7:00 AM PDT on PBS SoCal Encore
- Wednesday Jul 15, 1:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal Encore
- Saturday Jul 18, 6:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal Encore
Support Provided By
53:20
The inside story of China’s meteoric rise to the forefront of global innovation.
Unlock with PBS Passport
53:15
How did Earth give rise to humans? See what made our species' existence possible.
Unlock with PBS Passport
53:45
How did life bounce back after a cataclysmic extinction wiped out some 90% of all species?
Unlock with PBS Passport
53:47
See how life made the leap to land, turning a barren landscape into a lush, green world.
Unlock with PBS Passport
53:47
See how Earth transformed from a barren hellscape to a planet capable of sustaining life.
53:31
Who created the Nazca lines and why? New clues to one of the greatest ancient enigmas.
53:43
Ancient footprints provide new evidence of humans and extinct giant beasts of the Ice Age.
53:16
Sir David Attenborough explores a site with traces of ancient mammoths and Neanderthals.