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There's Something Massive Hiding Behind the Galaxy's Strangest Star

Season 11 Episode 34 | 15m 15s

From Dyson swarm to comet apocalypse—it's been 10 years since the discovery of Tabby’s star and we finally have a leading contender to explain the strangest known star in the galaxy.

Aired: 08/17/26
It’s believed empty space can be crystalized and we may have observed this for the first time.
Gigantic black holes existed in a cosmic eyeblink after the Big Bang. That should be impossible.
LIGO may have found an impossible black hole, hinting at primordial relics from the Big Bang.
DESI and DES studied dark energy. Together, what can they tell us?
Could sending a quantum twin across the galaxy make you both old and young at the same time?
It's possible that an event horizon is forming right behind and you won't know until its too late.
Are there no alien signals to find... or do we need to update how we search for them?
Physicists hope Planck stars can save us from black hole singularities and paradoxes.
Galaxies older than the universe? Webb's findings keep defying our best explanations.
Earth's core: solid or liquid? Yes — we know more about distant galaxies than our own interior.