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Unexplainable

Mysterious objects near the beginning of time

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Astronomers are putting together a new picture of the early universe. It involves a lot of very weird black holes, and it could help us understand how our own galaxy formed. Guest: Caitlin Casey, astronomer at UC Santa Barbara ⁠ For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For more, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unexplainable⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And please email us! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠unexplainable@vox.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/members⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.5

black. I started swimming and I felt the water hollowing out around me and felt like something

0:50.5

really big was swimming below. I'm Phoebe Judge, and this is Love.

0:57.1

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1:01.5

More than 100 episodes available now on This Is Love.

1:06.7

It's Unexplanable. I'm Sally Helm.

1:09.9

And today, I am delighted to remind you about the existence of outer space.

1:17.8

While I am doing things like compiling my documents for tax season or deciding whether it is time to replace the kitchen sponge, I sometimes like to pause and remember that

1:28.9

astronomers are out there probing the many mysteries of the universe. I mean, astronomers do have to deal

1:36.7

with their own kitchen sponges, but they also get to do things like look at the images sent

1:42.7

back to Earth by this enormous, amazing telescope,

1:47.7

the James Webb Space Telescope, JWST for short.

1:53.6

It launched on Christmas Day 2021.

1:56.4

We've covered it on the show before, but JWST is so powerful that it can essentially peer back in time.

2:05.6

It allows scientists to see things that they have never seen.

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