Get a flask.

Oh my god, I've just knocked a water bottle over.

To leave that in.

If our universe is expanding, does this mean that there is a centre?

Further out into our universe we look, we're looking further back in time, in effect.

It raises more questions like, well, if the universe began, can it end?

Hello, welcome to the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me,

science journalist, Izzy Clark, and astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst. And we're kicking off the new year with the beginning of everything, the big bang.

That's right.

And come December, we'll explore how the universe might end if it hasn't already happened by then.

Not only.

Yeah, I know.

Happy New Year, everyone.

Not only is it a new year, but also the Supermassive podcast is a year old.

Happy birthday to us. Happy birthday, our baby's gotten so big. You brought birthday cake, right?

I didn't, but I'm definitely using that as an excuse later to eat it. It's so weird, though, to think that like a year ago, we recorded our first episode in that beautiful room in the RAS, like you know, the council room with all the books everywhere.

I wanted to be like Bell from you Beauty and the Beast just sort of swinging around, didn't I?

But like that was one of the only of the two episodes we did in person and we've been doing them from home since.

I know. It's been a weird year, but here we are with episode 13.

And as always, we're joined by Robert Massey, the deputy director of the Royal Astronomical Society.

So is the Big Bang a misleading name for the beginning of our universe?

Well, it is really, because it wasn't a bang as such and a big bang implies this

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