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    PBS Space Time
            What If Black Holes Are Dark Energy?
                
                    
                        
                            Season 9
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 8
                        
                    
                
            
            
            Black holes and dark energy being the same thing has received some recent hype in the press. So let’s see if it might actually be true.
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