How the Universe Works — Season 9
Episodes
E01 Journey to a Black Hole
Mar 24, 2021 · 1h 24m
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.
E02 Mission to a Comet
Mar 31, 2021 · 42m
Experts embark on a ground-breaking mission to land on a comet.
E03 Secrets Of The Sun
Apr 7, 2021 · 42m
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.
E04 Aliens of the Microcosmos
Apr 14, 2021 · 42m
New discoveries reveal the power of microscopic alien organisms.
E05 Curse of the White Dwarf
Apr 21, 2021 · 42m
Dead stars called white dwarfs may be the key to understanding the cosmos.
E06 War of the Galaxies
Apr 28, 2021 · 42m
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.
E07 The Next Supernova
May 5, 2021 · 42m
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.
E08 Secret Lives Of Neutrinos
May 12, 2021 · 42m
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.
E09 Birth of Monster Black Holes
May 19, 2021 · 42m
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.
E10 Gravitational Waves Revealed
May 26, 2021 · 42m
Gravitational waves are helping scientists explore the cosmos in revolutionary, new ways, and the discoveries they make are revealing the universe’s greatest mysteries.
E11 Mystery of Alien Worlds
Jun 2, 2021 · 42m
New discoveries reveal the secrets of mysterious alien worlds.
