How the Universe Works

2010
4.8
367 reviews
TV-PG
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Season 9 episodes (11)

1 Journey to a Blackhole
3/24/21
Journey to the heart of the M87 supermassive black hole, the first and only black hole ever photographed, and explore the mystery of how it grew so large, what lies inside and how it controls the entire galaxy.
2 Mission to a Comet
3/31/21
The Rosetta mission was an ground-breaking expedition to land on a comet for the very first time; special access reveals what this cutting-edge journey discovered and how these mysterious objects helped create life on Earth.
3 Secrets of the Sun
4/7/21
A brand-new NASA mission to the Sun reveals cutting-edge discoveries about Earth's star; as the Parker Solar Probe dives through the Sun's atmosphere, what it finds challenges everything we know about this strange place.
4 Aliens of Microcosmos
4/14/21
The hidden kingdom of microscopic alien organisms shapes the universe as much as galaxies, stars, and planets; new discoveries reveal how bacteria, viruses, and other alien micro-organisms built life on Earth and influence humanity's future in the cosmos.
5 Curse of the White Dwarf
4/21/21
White dwarfs are small, dead stars with a dangerous side, capable of exploding into supernovas and destroying planets; new research suggests these mysterious phenomena may be the key to understanding the universe itself.
6 War of the Galaxies
4/28/21
Galaxies are locked in continual combat across the universe, and our own Milky Way will face its biggest opponent ever, the Andromeda Galaxy, in a titanic and deadly struggle that could create a new and unrecognizable super galaxy.
7 The Next Supernova
5/5/21
Our galaxy is full of stars ready to explode into supernovas, a stellar detonation powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth; it's an event that hasn't occurred in 400 years, and the search is on to locate which star may be next.
8 Secret Lives of Neutrinos
5/12/21
Neutrinos are the most mysterious particles in the universe, and they power some of the most explosive events in the cosmos; new discoveries reveal how these ghosts pass through objects undetected and why they could be the reason we exist.
9 Birth of the Monster Black Holes
5/19/21
New discoveries reveal an astonishing supermassive black hole that was born during the earliest days of the cosmos, and finding out how this giant grew so large so quickly may help to explain the very formation of the universe itself.
10 Gravitational Waves Revealed
5/26/21
Gravitational waves are helping scientists explore the cosmos in revolutionary, new ways, and the discoveries they make are revealing the universe's greatest mysteries.
11 Mystery of Alien Worlds
6/2/21
An explosion in the discovery of exoplanets is challenging everything we know about our universe; experts use cutting-edge astronomy to investigate these mysterious alien worlds and how they defy the laws of physics.

About this show

From the beginning of time, Stars, Galaxies, Planets, Solar Systems, and more have been working individually and together to produce all that is and all that we see. Take a deeper look at how the cosmos is designed, built, and actually works on How The Universe Works.

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4.8
367 reviews
Charles Gregory
September 9, 2017
Nothing on this stupid show is a fact like scientists believe. The only way it could become facts is with proof and that will never be possible, oh and just to let all of you scientists know science is supposed to be used to help save and understand lives, not destroy faith. You stupid atheists.
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kevin cornell
September 19, 2015
Funny how you never saw any of this,"can't be viewed in your country crap till the control of the internet was handed over by our president to a Chinese co. If I'm paying, or willing to pay, I'll watch it if I please. Or you can do without my business entirely.
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Al Garnier
March 14, 2021
The laws of thermodynamics can be boiled down to two types of energy, potential and kinetic energy. Potential energy is expansive energy and non-interactive while, kinetic energy is attractive and highly interactive. The only possiblity for interactions to occur in an expansion field is if, and only if, it collides with another expansion field of potential energy to become kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is where life's interactions begin.
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