BLACK HOLE MYSTERY: Exploring the Universe’s Scariest Place 🌌🕳️

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for another mind-stretching journey on this week’s Science Weekly as we dive into the weirdest, wildest, and most wonderful corners of science!

In Science in the News, China’s youngest astronaut has just launched into space, a teenager has built a working robot hand entirely out of Lego, and Neeltje Boogert from Exeter University explains how her team discovered the trick to keeping seagulls away from your snacks at the beach.

Then it is over to your questions as Joe Williams answers Jessie’s big one: what actually happens if you go into a black hole? And one listener wants to know the softest metal on Earth.

Dangerous Dan is back, and this week he is taking on one of the toughest animals on the planet: the honey badger.

In Battle of the Sciences, Alex Dryden dives into AI and economics to discover how computer brains help us make money decisions and understand the world.

Plus, Deep Space High returns in Galaxy Gala, where Mrs Higgs and her class are preparing a cosmic project that is missing one tiny thing… a black hole.

This week, we learn about:
• What happens inside a black hole
• How robots could change future jobs
• The trick to stopping seagulls from stealing food
• The world’s softest metal
• The surprisingly fierce honey badger
• How AI helps explain money and decision making

All that and more on this week’s Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Hello, Explorer. It's time for you and me to leave planet Earth for just a little bit.
0:07.8	And we'll see what science secrets are lurking through the solar system and beyond, shall we?
0:12.3	It's a brand new fun kid science weekly.
0:15.2	My name is Dan. This is where we do all the exploring every single week.
0:21.2	Thank you so much for listening to our podcast.
0:23.8	Well, this week, we really are travelling some distance.
0:27.1	We're jumping into a black hole to experience the mind-bending science of what might happen if you fell in.
0:34.1	Once I go inside the black hole, I'll eventually cross this point called the event horizon.
0:39.2	And event horizon is what defines the size of a black hole. It's the point beyond which
0:43.9	nothing is able to escape the black hole. Nothing, no matter how fast it is, not even the fastest
0:49.5	thing in the universe can escape. Also, you can hear about one of the most fearless mammals on Earth, and we'll take a look at
0:57.4	how robots and computers might change the jobs of the future.
1:02.1	It can't replace humans.
1:04.5	It doesn't replace humans.
1:06.1	We're still the ones making the decisions, but the way I see it is it's a really powerful robot assistant.
1:13.1	Maybe see it as a really powerful tool that we can use to be even better at our job.
1:19.6	It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:29.8	Let's start with your science in the news.
1:33.4	China's youngest ever astronaut has traveled into space.
1:40.3	Wu Fei was part of a three-person crew who blasted off from the Jiu Chuan satellite launch center,
1:42.5	heading to the Tiengong Space Station.
1:45.4	Now, Wu Fei, youngest astronaut from China,
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