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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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