Cosmic Queries – Planck Lengths to Supermassive Black Holes with Matt O’Dowd

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Is space infinitely stretchable? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore fan grab bag questions about supermassive black holes, Planck lengths, and the gravitational wave background with extragalactic astrophysicist and host of PBS Space Time, Matt O’Dowd.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Star Talk Cosmic Quarries Edition,
0:03.5	from here, my office at the Hayden Planetarium
0:06.8	of the American Museum of Natural History.
0:09.5	We talk about black holes, clusters of black holes. We talk about the plank length, the big rip, dark matter, dark energy, and everything in between. And of course, I end it with a cosmic perspective.
0:25.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:27.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:33.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:36.0	This is Star Talk.
0:40.0	Neil Degrass Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:43.3	Today we're going to do cosmic queries.
0:46.1	And this time my special guest is friend and colleague
0:49.7	Matt O'Dow.
0:50.5	Matt, how you doing, man?
0:51.6	Great new.
0:52.2	How you feeling? All right, been you doing man? Great new. How you feeling?
0:53.2	All right, been too long.
0:54.2	Been too long.
0:55.2	It's exciting.
0:56.2	And of course we got Chuck Nice.
0:57.2	What's happening? Matt, good to see you.
0:58.6	Chuck, there's no cosmic queries without you reading the question.
1:01.6	Now, there is. There is. There truly is, but I appreciate that.
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