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The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?

Season 3 Episode 9
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The Secrets of Feynman Diagrams

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How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer

Season 3 Episode 8

Quasars, X-ray Binaries and Supermassive voids at the center of our galaxies … black holes take many forms. In this episode Matt tells us what these different types of black holes are and how scientists are using VLBI, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, to map the different black holes throughout the known universe.

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