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PBS Space Time
Space Does Not Expand Everywhere
Season 8
Episode 14
Space is big, and it’s getting bigger. But where does all that new space actually come from? And is it popping into existence all around you right now? Is that why the remote control is always further away than I thought?
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15:15
A decade later, a leading theory may finally explain Tabby’s Star, the galaxy’s weirdest star.
16:31
LIGO may have found an impossible black hole, hinting at primordial relics from the Big Bang.
17:40
DESI and DES studied dark energy. Together, what can they tell us?
16:28
Could sending a quantum twin across the galaxy make you both old and young at the same time?
17:39
It's possible that an event horizon is forming right behind and you won't know until its too late.
20:48
Are there no alien signals to find... or do we need to update how we search for them?
14:27
Physicists hope Planck stars can save us from black hole singularities and paradoxes.
17:41
Galaxies older than the universe? Webb's findings keep defying our best explanations.
16:16
Earth's core: solid or liquid? Yes — we know more about distant galaxies than our own interior.
14:42
Gödel found a time-travel solution in General Relativity, revealing spacetime can loop on itself.
18:46
Tardigrades can survive almost anything—even most of Mars. But one Martian chemical stops even them.