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                        Season 10
                    
                
                
                    
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            How To Capture Black Holes
                
                    
                        
                            Season 5
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 45
                        
                    
                
            
            
            Black holes are awesome - but how about black holes being captured by the screaming vortex of a quasar, where they merge and grow like some monstrous version of a solar system. This insane hypothesis is getting closer to reality, according to the papers in today’s space time journal club.
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            The universe should've collapsed after the Big Bang, but a light Higgs boson let us exist.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Maybe dark energy doesn't exist?
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Dark matter has eluded us for many decades but we may be able to discover more now.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            What does an electron really look like?
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            I’d like to invite you to an even higher level of nerdom!
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Gravitational tsunamis exist and we’re on the verge of being able to detect them.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Will we ever become a Kardeshev Type-1 civilization and how can we get there?