TV-GSeason 9
Synopsis
Season 9 of How the Universe Works (2010) brings eleven new episodes you can watch online on iFILM. This run is built around recent discoveries rather than the old questions about how time began.
It opens with a trip to the M87 supermassive black hole — the first one ever caught in a real photograph — and asks how it grew so vast and what it does to its galaxy. After that, scientists set a craft down on a comet, send the Parker probe diving through the Sun's atmosphere, and look at microscopic organisms that might be cousins to alien life. The middle stretch turns to white dwarfs as a key to reading the cosmos and the coming collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda. Later episodes catch gravitational waves, hunt for the next star primed to go supernova, and chase the ghostly neutrino.
As ever with the Science Channel, the weight sits on fresh mission data and working astronomers, not on flourish. Season 9 is stronger than the last few precisely because nearly every episode hangs on a specific telescope or probe. A solid entry point if you want to know what astronomy is actually doing right now. Stream How the Universe Works Season 9 online on iFILM.
11 episodes
S9·E1Journey to a Black Hole
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.
S9·E2Mission to a Comet
Experts embark on a ground-breaking mission to land on a comet.
S9·E3Secrets Of The Sun
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 known about this strange place.
S9·E4Aliens of the Microcosmos
New discoveries reveal the power of microscopic alien organisms.
S9·E5Curse of the White Dwarf
Dead stars called white dwarfs may be the key to understanding the cosmos.
S9·E6War of the Galaxies
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.
S9·E7The Next Supernova
The 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.
S9·E8Secret Lives Of Neutrinos
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 humans exist.
S9·E9Birth of Monster Black Holes
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.
S9·E10Gravitational Waves Revealed
Gravitational waves are helping scientists explore the cosmos in revolutionary, new ways, and the discoveries they make are revealing the universe’s greatest mysteries.
S9·E11Mystery of Alien Worlds
New discoveries reveal the secrets of mysterious alien worlds.
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