Cosmic Queries – Total Darkness

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🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Are all the galaxies orbiting a superstructure in the middle of the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice are reaching into the grab bag to cover questions from absolute zero to the nature of gravity, and much much more.

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0:00.0	So Chuck, we just rolled out another grab bag Cosmic Queries.
0:03.1	That's right.
0:03.6	And people grabbed all parts of the bag on that one.
0:06.6	Black holes, personal questions about me and my telescopes?
0:10.6	Yes.
0:10.8	What's up with that?
0:11.5	We got it off.
0:12.4	We're coming up on StarTalk.
0:16.1	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:18.7	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:24.3	StarTalk begins right now.
0:30.8	This is StarTalk.
0:33.3	Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:36.0	Chuck Nice over here.
0:36.9	What's up?
0:37.8	All right, Neil.
0:38.8	We're going to do another cosmic queries. A grab a bag. That's all we're doing lately, our grab bags. It's a fan favorite, man. It's like you close your eye, reach in the bin and pull it out. Pull out a snake. You know, I actually have a black hole bag over there. Did I ever show you that?
0:52.8	Wait, I thought it was the black hole lunchbox.
0:56.4	Can I only have a black hole bag over there? Did I ever show you that? Wait, I thought it was the black hole lunch box. Can I only have one black hole thing? Is this what you're... I know, who am I talking to? I'm going to show you. Wait, hang on you. You might have shown me this a long time ago. This is a black hole bag. Oh, Lord Jesus. What the hell?
1:11.6	What the?
1:13.1	Okay.
1:15.0	I love it.
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