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PBS Space Time
Was the Milky Way a Quasar?
Season 6
Episode 12
The Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm by the destructive standards of the rest of the Universe, and compared to its own very violent past. But just recently we discovered that its violent past was much more recent than we thought - and could even happen again.
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12:35
It may be that for every star in the universe there are billions of black holes.
12:35
Muon G-2 experiment produces the most successful predictions in physics.
12:48
We talk about some real experiments that claim to have demonstrated Zeno's phenomenon.
13:08
The crisis in cosmology has actually gotten worse, which means we may be onto something!
13:54
There's a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that has provided a breakthrough.
13:03
We try to make contact with dark matter particles and enter into the Dark Universe.
12:43
Transitions of quantum systems have always defied observation...until now.
12:11
Erwin Schrödinger provides a new perspective that helps us navigate quantum mechanics.