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Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space-Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Check out the Space-Time Merch Store https://pbsspacetime.com/ Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements! https://mailchi.mp/1a6eb8f2717d/space… From Stargate to Interstellar, wormholes are our favorite method for travelling across fictional universes. But they are also a very serious field of study for some…

Check out Antarctic Extremes on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/pbsterra Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space-Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements!https://mailchi.mp/1a6eb8f2717d/space… Check out the Space-Time Merch Store: https://pbsspacetime.com/ The Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm by the destructive standards of the rest of the Universe and compared…

In astronomy, we talk about billions of years like it’s no big deal. But how can we be sure about timescales so far beyond the capacity for human intuition? Our discovery of what we now call deep time is very recent – as recent as our discovery of the true spatial vastness of our universe. And it came as scientists…

Normal maps are useless inside black holes. At the event horizon – the ultimate point of no return as you approach a black hole – time and space themselves change their character. We need new coordinate systems to trace paths into the black hole interior. But the maps we draw using those coordinates reveal something unexpected – they don’t simply…