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New Discovery About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!
Season 9
Episode 11
Astrophysicists have discovered a black hole that for millions of years has been blasting vast particle beams in opposite directions across the sky. And has recently swiveled to point its one of these jets directly at us.
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12:51
We only recently figured out where cosmic rays are coming from.
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13:28
Black hole complementarity may force us to rethink what it means to say that it exists.
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20:15
To travel the stars without faster than light travel we’re going to need a generation ship.
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16:19
Today we are jumping into a black hole. Again.
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15:36
The Moon: humanity’s first destination beyond our atmosphere.
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15:07
So how did humans figure out the solar system? Eclipses!
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15:02
Is gravity just an emergent effect of entropy?
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14:28
Is our 3-D universe is just the inward projection of an infinitely distant boundary?
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14:12
What if aliens are deliberately keeping quiet for fear that they might be destroyed?
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15:13
So what exactly is an EMP, and how dangerous are they?
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14:44
The terrible singularity at the heart of the black hole may be no more.
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14:33
We may have solved the mysterious origins of supermassive black holes in our universe.