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Black Hole Binaries Revealed by Gravitational Lensing
Season 3 Episode 318
Astronomers have proposed a new way to detect supermassive black hole binaries—by watching how they bend and magnify starlight. As two black holes or…
1 week, 3 days ago
Failed Supernova? How a Massive Star Quietly Became a Black Hole
Season 3 Episode 317
Astronomers have identified a rare case in the Andromeda Galaxy where a massive star appears to have collapsed directly into a black hole—without exp…
1 week, 4 days ago
Bennu Asteroid Samples Rewrite Origins of Prebiotic Life Molecules
Season 3 Episode 315
New analysis of asteroid Bennu shows that amino acids can form in cold, icy, and radioactive environments, overturning the idea that warm water is es…
1 week, 5 days ago
First Subsurface Lava Tube Discovered on Venus
Season 3 Episode 314
Scientists analyzing NASA’s Magellan radar data have confirmed the first known subsurface lava tube on Venus, hidden beneath the planet’s thick cloud…
1 week, 6 days ago
Is There No Black Hole? New Dark Matter Theory at the Center of the Milky Way
Season 3 Episode 316
A new study challenges the idea that a supermassive black hole sits at the center of the Milky Way. Instead, researchers propose a dense core of ferm…
2 weeks ago
James Webb Finds the Chemical Seeds of Life in a Distant Galaxy
Season 3 Episode 313
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected a rich mix of organic molecules inside the dusty core of a distant galaxy.
The discove…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Gas Giants Around White Dwarfs: How Planets Survive Stellar Death
Season 3 Episode 312
This episode explores new research showing that while most planets are destroyed when stars become red giants, a small number of gas giants can survi…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Primordial Explosions: Solving the Dark Matter Neutrino Mystery
Season 3 Episode 311
This episode explores a bold proposal suggesting a record-breaking neutrino detected in 2023 may have come from the explosion of a primordial black h…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
AI Takes the Wheel: Autonomous Driving on Mars
Season 3 Episode 311
This episode explores how NASA’s Perseverance rover completed its first Mars drives guided by generative AI.
Using vision-language models to analyze o…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
JWST’s Quintet: Five-Galaxy Merger in the Early Universe
Season 3 Episode 309
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, this episode explores a rare five-galaxy merger seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang. Known…
3 weeks ago