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Black Holes Hosted by Felix Mercer

Hosted by Felix Mercer, an AI guide drawing from humanity"s greatest scientific minds, this six-episode series chronicles black holes from theoretical curiosity to observable reality. Journey from Schwarzschild"s WWI battlefield equations through Chandrasekhar"s stellar death predictions, the hunt for invisible cosmic monsters, discovery of galactic supermassive giants, the Event Horizon Telescope"s historic first image, and LIGO"s detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Felix

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Dive into the Cosmos greatest mystery with Black...

Black Holes Hosted by Felix Mercer ·

2025/09/16

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Hunting the Invisible

Black Holes Hosted by Felix Mercer ·

2025/09/16

Felix Mercer chronicles the decades-long detective story of finding objects that emit no light. Discover how astronomers developed ingenious methods to detect black holes through their gravitational effects on companion stars and the groundbreaking discovery of Cygnus X-1 in the 1970s—the first widely accepted black hole candidate. Felix reveals the crucial role of X-ray astronomy and space telescopes, introducing key pioneers like John Wheeler who coined the term "black hole" and Jocelyn Bell

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The Stellar Graveyard

Black Holes Hosted by Felix Mercer ·

2025/09/16

Felix Mercer reveals how massive stars become cosmic graveyards, birthing black holes through catastrophic death. Explore the dramatic life cycles of giant stars and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's groundbreaking work on stellar remnants that sparked fierce controversy at the 1935 Royal Astronomical Society meeting. Felix transforms complex nuclear physics into accessible storytelling, explaining how we learned to distinguish between white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. Discover why

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Into the Void A Journey Through Black Holes

Black Holes Hosted by Felix Mercer ·

2025/09/16

Episode 1: "The Dark Prediction" Felix Mercer explores how Einstein's equations accidentally predicted the universe's strangest objects. In 1916, while fighting on WWI's Russian front, Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein's field equations and discovered something unsettling—regions where gravity becomes so extreme that nothing, not even light, can escape. Felix reveals why even Einstein initially rejected these "dark stars," the early scientific skepticism surrounding "frozen stars," and how

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