Back to Show
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.
Sign up now for inspiring and thought-provoking media delivered straight to your inbox.

18:32
Dark matter has eluded us for many decades but we may be able to discover more now.

15:35
What do you get if you combine something that’s infinitely massive and negative infinitely massive?

13:39
What does an electron really look like?

16:35
Is there a limit to how much energy you can cram into, or pull out of one patch of space?

17:19
I’d like to invite you to an even higher level of nerdom!

11:43
Gravitational tsunamis exist and we’re on the verge of being able to detect them.

18:40
Will we ever become a Kardeshev Type-1 civilization and how can we get there?

14:05
New data is telling us that Neutron stars may make one of the most popular dark matter candidates.

15:14
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?

16:08
Here’s the story we like to tell about the beginning of the universe.

17:44
We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies.

16:51
Let’s talk about quantum gravity experiments that can be done here on Earth!