Gravity’s Cosmic Symphony with Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Could LISA detect primordial black holes or gravitational waves from the Big Bang? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice explore LISA and the future of gravitational wave astronomy with astrophysicist Kelly Holley-Bockelmann.

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0:00.0	Chuck, if you give an astrophysicist a cookie, they'll ask for more.
0:03.9	We weren't happy with LIGO.
0:06.5	No.
0:07.6	There's more black holes to detect.
0:09.9	Yeah.
0:11.0	Yeah, exactly.
0:12.3	Now we got Lisa, which, you know, I have to, I have to say, better name than LIGO.
0:18.7	That's for sure.
0:22.5	Coming up, everything about the next generation gravitational wave detector on StarTalk.
0:30.7	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:33.3	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:39.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:44.6	This is StarTalk.
0:46.8	Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:49.7	Got with me my co-ho, Chuck Knight, Chuckie, baby.
0:51.9	How you doing?
0:52.2	Hey, what's up, Neil?
0:53.7	How's it going, buddy?
0:54.4	All right, yeah, professional comedian and actor and... And acting like a comedian. I've even seen you on TV commercials. Yes, you have, but not enough. Not enough TV commercials. That seems to be the problem. That's what I'm trying to convince the industry of. The public is clamoring for more Chuck Nye's TV commercials.
1:13.7	Oh, okay. That's what I'm trying to convince the industry of. The public is clamoring for more Chuck Nye's TV commercials.
1:13.7	Oh, okay.
1:17.2	So today, we're revisiting a topic we've done in several different dimensions,
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