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How the Universe Works

Season 9 · 11 episodes · Mar 24, 2021

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    Episode 1

    Journey to a Black Hole

    Mar 24, 2021

    Journey to the heart of the M87 supermassive black hole, the first and only black hole ever photographed, and explore the mystery of how it grew so large, what lies inside, and how it controls the entire galaxy.

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    Episode 2

    Mission to a Comet

    Mar 31, 2021

    Experts embark on a ground-breaking mission to land on a comet.

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    Episode 3

    Secrets Of The Sun

    Apr 7, 2021

    A brand-new NASA mission to the Sun reveals cutting-edge discoveries about Earth's star; as the Parker Solar Probe dives through the Sun's atmosphere, what it finds challenges everything known about this strange place.

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    Episode 4

    Aliens of the Microcosmos

    Apr 14, 2021

    New discoveries reveal the power of microscopic alien organisms.

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    Episode 5

    Curse of the White Dwarf

    Apr 21, 2021

    Dead stars called white dwarfs may be the key to understanding the cosmos.

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    Episode 6

    War of the Galaxies

    Apr 28, 2021

    Galaxies are locked in continual combat across the universe, and our own Milky Way will face its biggest opponent ever, the Andromeda Galaxy, in a titanic and deadly struggle that could create a new and unrecognizable super galaxy.

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    Episode 7

    The Next Supernova

    May 5, 2021

    The galaxy is full of stars ready to explode into supernovas, a stellar detonation powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth; it's an event that hasn't occurred in 400 years, and the search is on to locate which star may be next.

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    Episode 8

    Secret Lives Of Neutrinos

    May 12, 2021

    Neutrinos are the most mysterious particles in the universe, and they power some of the most explosive events in the cosmos; new discoveries reveal how these ghosts pass through objects undetected and why they could be the reason humans exist.

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    Episode 9

    Birth of Monster Black Holes

    May 19, 2021

    New discoveries reveal an astonishing supermassive black hole that was born during the earliest days of the cosmos, and finding out how this giant grew so large so quickly may help to explain the very formation of the universe itself.

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    Episode 10

    Gravitational Waves Revealed

    May 26, 2021

    Gravitational waves are helping scientists explore the cosmos in revolutionary, new ways, and the discoveries they make are revealing the universe’s greatest mysteries.

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    Episode 11

    Mystery of Alien Worlds

    Jun 2, 2021

    New discoveries reveal the secrets of mysterious alien worlds.