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Why Quasars are so Awesome

Jan 25, 201712 min
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When Quasars were first discovered the amount of light pouring out of such a tiny dot in space seemed impossible. A hysterical flurry of hypothesizing followed: swarms of neutron stars, alien civilizations harnessing their entire galaxy’s power, bright, fast-moving objects being ejected by our own

Season 2017 Episodes45

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E1

How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer

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E2

The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?

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E3

The Phantom Singularity

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E4Now viewing

Why Quasars are so Awesome

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E5

The Geometry of Causality

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E6

Telescopes of Tomorrow

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E7

The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!

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E8

The Treasures of Trappist-1

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E9

The Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge

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E10

Time Crystals!

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E11

Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer

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E12

How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole

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E13

Telescopes on the Moon

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E14

The Oh My God Particle

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E15

Are You a Boltzmann Brain?

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E16

Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation?

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E17

The Great American Eclipse

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E18

Martian Evolution

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E19

The Fate of the First Stars

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E20

Supervoids vs Colliding Universes!

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E21

Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity

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E22

The First Quantum Field Theory

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E23

Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths

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E24

Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory

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E25

The Real Star Wars

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E26

The Secrets of Feynman Diagrams

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E27

Dark Flow

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E28

The One-Electron Universe

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E29

Extraterrestrial Superstorms

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E30

First Detection of Life

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E31

White Holes

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E32

Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?

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E33

The Future of Space Telescope

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E34

Are the Fundamental Constants Changing?

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E35

When Quasars Collide STJC

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E36

Absolute Cold

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E37

The Nature of Nothing

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E38

The Missing Mass Mystery

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E39

The Vacuum Catastrophe

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E40

Zero-Point Energy Demystified

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E41

Suicide Space Robots

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E42

Citizen Science + Zero-Point Challenge Answer

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E43

Understanding the Uncertainty Principle with Quantum Fourier Series

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E44

The Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor

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E45

Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst

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Matthew O’Dowd

Matthew O’Dowd

Self - Host

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Episode Summary

"Why Quasars are so Awesome" is episode 4 of PBS Space Time season 2017. It aired on January 25, 2017.