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Dec 2022
44m 17s

Cosmic Queries – Holographic Universe & ...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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Is our universe inside a black hole? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer questions about wormholes, quasars, white holes, and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu. What would a wormhole look like to us? 

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Photo Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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