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Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth with our astrophysicist host: Matthew O’Dowd. For all business inquiries and sponsorship opportunities please reach out to: pbsspacetime@lighthouseagents.com Matt O'Dowd spends his time studying the universe, especially really far-away things like quasars, super-massive black holes, and evolving galaxies. He uses telescopes in space to do it. Matt completed his Ph.D. at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute, followed by work at the University of Melbourne and Columbia University. He's now a professor at the City University of New York's Lehman College and an Associate at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium. Previous host Gabe Perez-Giz is an astrophysicist who studies black hole physics. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and also hosted PBS Infinite Series. patreon.com/pbsspacetime

Episode Date
Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality?
Aug 09, 2026
What If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere?
Aug 09, 2026
Is ACTION The Most Fundamental Property in Physics?
Aug 09, 2026
The NEW Ultimate Energy Cap of the Universe
Aug 09, 2026
Could the Higgs Boson Point Us Toward Dark Matter?
Aug 09, 2026
How Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy
Aug 09, 2026
At What Point Does Spacetime Shift Into Quantum?
Aug 09, 2026
Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect
Aug 09, 2026
Do Neutron Stars Gleam Within Dark Matter?
Aug 09, 2026
How Supernovas Behave as the Universe's Greatest Particle Accelerators
Aug 09, 2026
Why Life on Mars Will RUIN Humanity
Aug 09, 2026
What Happens During a Quantum Jump?
Aug 09, 2026
Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model?
Aug 09, 2026
2021 End of Year AMA!
Aug 09, 2026
Can 'Perpetual Motion' Exist in Superfluids?
Aug 09, 2026
Is There Support For a Vast Multiverse?
Aug 09, 2026
Could LIGO Find GIANT Alien Spacecraft?
Aug 09, 2026
What If Gravity is NOT An Elementary Force? | Entropic Gravity
Aug 09, 2026
How To Know If It's Aliens
Aug 09, 2026
The NEW Crisis in Cosmology
Aug 09, 2026
What If Gravity Isn't Quantum? New Experiments Examine
Aug 09, 2026
The FRESH SCIENCE of Moon Formation
Aug 09, 2026
What Occurs Within a Proton?
Aug 09, 2026
Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?
Aug 09, 2026
How Will We (Most Probably) Discover Extraterrestrial Life?
Aug 09, 2026
What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?
Aug 09, 2026
How Black Holes Spin Space Time
Aug 09, 2026
Space DOES NOT Expand Everywhere
Aug 09, 2026
Dark Forest: Should We NOT Communicate with Aliens?
Aug 09, 2026
How To Capture Black Holes
Aug 09, 2026
What Happens After the Universe Ends?
Aug 09, 2026
Are there Unrevealed Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?
Aug 09, 2026
How Many Forms Of Matter Exist?
Aug 09, 2026
The Arrow of Time and How to Reverse It
Aug 09, 2026
Electrons DO NOT Spin
Aug 09, 2026
The Crisis In Physics: Are We Failing To Detect 17 Layers of Reality?
Aug 09, 2026
Does the Universe Create Itself?
Aug 09, 2026
Did AI Invalidate Our Proton Model WRONG?
Aug 09, 2026
What If Our Understanding of Gravity Is Wrong?
Aug 09, 2026
Why Do You Remember The Past But Not The Future?
Aug 09, 2026
Do the Past and Future Exist?
Aug 09, 2026
How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?
Aug 09, 2026
Can We Generate New Elements Beyond the Periodic Table?
Aug 09, 2026
Building Black Holes in a Lab
Aug 09, 2026
Dissolving an Event Horizon
Aug 08, 2026
Does Antimatter Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing?
Aug 08, 2026
How Vacuum Decay Would Destroy The Universe
Aug 08, 2026
The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy
Aug 08, 2026
Is The Future Predetermined By Quantum Mechanics?
Aug 08, 2026
The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars
Aug 08, 2026
Heisenberg Made a Discovery in 1925. We Still Can't Fully Account for It
Aug 08, 2026
Can Interstellar Travel Be Possible?
Aug 08, 2026
Was Penrose Right? RECENT FINDINGS For Quantum Effects In The Brain
Aug 08, 2026
How We Know The Earth Is Ancient
Aug 08, 2026
Solving the Three Body Problem
Aug 08, 2026
What If Gravity Remains Non-Quantum?
Aug 08, 2026
Can We Propel THE SUN?
Aug 08, 2026
Have We SOLVED The Black Hole Information Paradox with Wormholes?
Aug 08, 2026
Interstellar Expansion WITHOUT Exceeding the Speed of Light
Aug 08, 2026
Will Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?
Aug 08, 2026
RECENT EVIDENCE: Earth Had Rings (and Might Reclaim Them)
Aug 08, 2026
How Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible
Aug 08, 2026
How Far Beyond Earth Could Humanity Travel?
Aug 08, 2026
Are We Running Out of Space Above Earth?
Aug 08, 2026
Does Infinity - Infinity = an Electron?
Aug 08, 2026
How Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever Witness?
Aug 08, 2026
First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole
Aug 08, 2026
The Arrow of Time and How to Reverse It
Aug 08, 2026
What Does An Electron ACTUALLY Seem Like?
Aug 08, 2026
How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time
Aug 07, 2026
JWST Discovered The Furthest Star Ever Observed!
Aug 07, 2026
The Truth About Beauty in Physics
Aug 07, 2026
Hacking the Nature of Reality
Aug 07, 2026
What UNEXPLORED SCIENCE Would We Discover with a Moon Telescope?
Aug 07, 2026
Was the Milky Way a Quasar?
Aug 07, 2026
Why Time Flows Differently Across Galaxies
Aug 07, 2026
Could We Decipher Alien Physics?
Aug 07, 2026
How Eclipses Demonstrated Our Solar System
Aug 07, 2026
Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?
Aug 07, 2026
How To Observe Faster Than Light Travel
Aug 07, 2026
How Does Gravity Warp the Flow of Time?
Aug 07, 2026
The Science of the James Webb Telescope Explained!
Aug 07, 2026
The Final Obstacle to (Nearly) Infinite Energy
Aug 07, 2026
Can Black Holes Integrate General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics?
Aug 07, 2026
What If Alien Life Ran on Silicon?
Aug 07, 2026
Was the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Identified?!?
Aug 07, 2026
Are Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs?
Aug 07, 2026
EMP Attack: The Factual Science of Electromagnetic Pulse
Aug 07, 2026
Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?
Aug 07, 2026
How Earth ACTUALLY Moves Across the Galaxy
Aug 07, 2026
Will The Sun's Magnetic Poles Flip This Year?
Aug 07, 2026
Does Axionic Dark Matter Fuse Galaxies Together?
Aug 07, 2026
How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gaseous State?
Aug 07, 2026
What Makes The Strong Force Powerful?
Aug 07, 2026
Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces
Aug 07, 2026
Where Are The Worlds In Many Worlds?
Aug 07, 2026
What if Humans Are NOT Our Planet's First Civilization? | Silurian Hypothesis
Aug 07, 2026
Why Antimatter Engines Could Blast Off In Your Lifetime
Aug 07, 2026
Do We Need an UPDATED Dark Matter Model?
Aug 07, 2026
What Supernova Distance Would Initiate Mass Extinction?
Aug 07, 2026
Space Time Livestream: Ask Matt Anything
Aug 07, 2026
Theory of Everything Livestreams with Amazing Guests
Aug 07, 2026
What Happens If A Black Hole Hits Earth?
Aug 07, 2026
Why Did Quantum Entanglement Secure the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Aug 07, 2026
Neutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe
Aug 07, 2026
Navigating with Quantum Entanglement
Aug 07, 2026
Do We Live in the Most Exceptional Solar System In The Universe? We're about to find out!
Aug 07, 2026
What If The Cosmological Constant Wasn't Truly Constant?
Aug 07, 2026
Are there Infinite Versions of You?
Aug 07, 2026
Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?
Aug 07, 2026
Could Life Evolve Inside Stars?
Aug 07, 2026
Why Is The World Returning To The Moon So Quickly?
Aug 07, 2026
The Universe Itself Might Be Veiling the Gravity Particle From Us
Aug 07, 2026
What If We Inhabit a Superdeterministic Universe?
Aug 07, 2026
Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth?
Aug 07, 2026
Does Antimatter Yield Anti-Gravity?
Aug 07, 2026
Fermions Vs. Bosons Explained by Statistical Mechanics!
Aug 06, 2026
What If Physics IS NOT Describing Reality?
Aug 06, 2026
RECENT DISCOVERY About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!
Aug 06, 2026
Why the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting!
Aug 06, 2026
What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
Aug 06, 2026
How a One-in-a-Billion Blunder Made the Universe Possible
Aug 06, 2026
How To Simulate The Universe With DFT
Aug 06, 2026
Can The Crisis in Cosmology Be EXPLAINED By Cosmic Voids?
Aug 06, 2026
Does Many Worlds Justify Quantum Probabilities?
Aug 06, 2026
Can Space Be Infinitely Divided?
Aug 06, 2026
The Supernova At The End of Time
Aug 06, 2026
The Universe Itself Might Be Withholding the Gravity Particle From Us
Aug 06, 2026
The Gravity Particle Ought to Be Real. So Where Is It?
Aug 06, 2026
How To Build The Universe in a Computer
Aug 06, 2026
How We Know The Universe is Ancient
Aug 06, 2026
Does Time Cause Gravity?
Aug 06, 2026
What is a Theory of Everything: Livestream
Aug 06, 2026
Why Did Attosecond Physics Take Home the NOBEL PRIZE?
Aug 06, 2026
Are Axions Dark Matter?
Aug 06, 2026
Where Is The Center of The Universe?
Aug 06, 2026
The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities
Aug 06, 2026
What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?
Aug 06, 2026
Black Holes. Dissected. For 1.5 Hours.
Aug 06, 2026
Quantum Energy Teleportation Actually EXISTS!
Aug 06, 2026
Will The Big Bang Happen ANEW (and Anew)?
Aug 06, 2026
Why Is 1/137 One of the Biggest Unsolved Mysteries In Physics?
Aug 06, 2026
What If The Universe DID NOT Emerge From The Big Bang?
Aug 06, 2026
What if Singularities FAIL to Exist?
Aug 06, 2026
How Does The Nucleus Keep Together?
Aug 05, 2026
What If Humanity Ranks Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations?
Aug 05, 2026
Is Gravity RANDOM Not Quantized?
Aug 05, 2026
Did JWST Identify Dark Matter Stars?
Aug 05, 2026
What If Space And Time Are Unreal?
Aug 05, 2026
Solving Quantum Cryptography
Aug 05, 2026
How Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity
Aug 05, 2026
Does the Planck Length Disrupt E=MC^2?
Aug 05, 2026
Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?
Aug 05, 2026
How Are Quasiparticles Separate From Particles?
Aug 05, 2026
Your DNA's Codes Are (Almost Certainly) From Outer Space
Aug 05, 2026
Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?
Aug 05, 2026
The Nature of Space and Time AMA
Aug 05, 2026
Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist
Aug 05, 2026
How Astrophysics Can (LITERALLY) Preserve Civilization
Aug 05, 2026
How to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres
Aug 05, 2026
Theory of Everything Controversies: Livestream
Aug 05, 2026
Can a Particle Be Neither Matter Nor a Force?
Aug 05, 2026
Can Free Will be Saved in a Deterministic Universe?
Aug 05, 2026
Does Space Materialize From A Holographic Boundary?
Aug 05, 2026
Did JWST EXPLAIN The Mystery of Supermassive Black Hole Origins?
Aug 05, 2026
How Magnetism Shapes The Universe
Aug 05, 2026
How Does Gravity Affect Light?
Aug 05, 2026
Is There A Basic Answer To The Fermi Paradox?
Aug 05, 2026
How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse
Aug 05, 2026
Is Our Model of Dark Energy BROKEN? | New 4.2σ Results
Aug 04, 2026
The REVOLUTIONARY PHYSICS of Black Hole Star Capture | Extreme Tidal Disruption Events
Aug 04, 2026
How Decoherence Splits The Quantum Multiverse
Aug 04, 2026
What Transpires To Quantum Information Inside A Black Hole?
Aug 04, 2026
Mapping the Multiverse
Aug 04, 2026
What If Dark Energy is an Undiscovered Quantum Field?
Aug 04, 2026
What If The Universe Is Arithmetic?
Aug 04, 2026
How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass
Aug 04, 2026
Year End Q&A
Aug 04, 2026
How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole?
Aug 04, 2026
Do Black Holes Have to Remain Black?
Aug 04, 2026
What If A Black Hole Dwelt Inside The Sun? | Hawking Stars
Aug 04, 2026
How Stars Destroy Each Other
Aug 04, 2026
Venus May Have Life!
Aug 04, 2026
What If The Speed of Light Were NOT CONSTANT?
Aug 04, 2026
The Most Significant Satellite You've (Probably) Never Heard Of
Aug 04, 2026
How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology
Aug 04, 2026
Why The Multiverse Might Actually Be Real
Aug 04, 2026
What If Space is NOT Hollow?
Aug 04, 2026
How Many Black Holes Reside In The Solar System?
Aug 04, 2026
Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?
Aug 04, 2026
What's Your Brain's Purpose in Producing Space & Time?
Aug 04, 2026
Are Room Temperature Superconductors UNACHIEVABLE?
Aug 04, 2026
Can We Break the Universe?
Aug 04, 2026
Are Many Worlds & Pilot Wave THE SAME Interpretation?
Aug 04, 2026
New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
Aug 04, 2026
What If Black Holes FUEL Dark Energy?
Aug 03, 2026
Does Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?
Aug 03, 2026
Breaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Aug 03, 2026
Why Is All DNA Oriented Rightward?
Aug 03, 2026
The REAL Possibility of Imaging Alien Planets!
Aug 03, 2026
Are The Fundamental Constants Delicately Tuned? | The Naturalness Problem
Aug 03, 2026
Can Space Time Keep Memory?
Aug 03, 2026
The Crisis in Physics: Why the Higgs Boson Should Never Exist!
Aug 03, 2026
How To Identify Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos
Aug 03, 2026
Is It IMPOSSIBLE To Penetrate The Event Horizon? | Black Hole Firewall Paradox
Aug 03, 2026
The Equation That Illuminates (Nearly) Everything!
Aug 03, 2026
How Can Humanity Evolve Into a Kardashev Type 1 Civilization?
Aug 03, 2026
Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?
Aug 03, 2026
How Do Quantum States Manifest In The Classical World?
Aug 03, 2026
What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
Aug 03, 2026
We Had It WRONG About the Quantum Eraser! ft. @LookingGlassUniverse
Aug 03, 2026