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The Supermassive Podcast — 119 episodes

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1

Q&A: Could Dark Matter Be Space Vampires?

2

Can Time Travel be sped up? What is the Bootes Void? And G'day to Australians

3

What the heck are neutrinos?

4

Why Is There Motion in the Universe?

5

How Do Space Telescopes Work?

6

Did Gravity Wipe Out The Dinosaurs?

7

Into the Space Debris Swamp

8

Our Artemis II Debrief

9

When Space Goes Rogue....

10

Black holes in the lab and meeting Ryan Gosling

11

What is the Hubble Tension?

12

2026: The year in space... And at sea?!

13

Q&A: Meteors, Artemis II, and Space Bathtubs

14

How to Time Travel

15

Slingshots, Christmas Presents & Alien Communication

16

Protecting Our Dark Skies

17

Supermassive Gone Rogue

18

A Watery History of Mars

19

Mercury, Gemini and Pringles

20

Don't Panic…but a solar storm could be a disaster

21

Are we Living in a Black Hole?

22

Supermassive Q and A...Live!

23

What Shape is Space?

24

Astronauts. Do we need them?

25

Where are Earth's rings?

26

Why isn't Pluto a planet?

27

BONUS - Why aren’t stars closer together?

28

Is Time Real?

29

BONUS - Mole People on Mars

30

What is Gravity?

31

BONUS - Can we gravitationally "hitch hike" out of the Solar System?

32

Returning to the Moon - with ESA Astronaut Matthias Maurer

33

BONUS - Can A Star Orbit Another Star?

34

Sample Return Missions - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

35

EMERGENCY BONUS - Asteroid 2024 YR4

36

BONUS - Could we capture a primordial black hole?

37

The Search for Space Aliens

38

Q&A - Space Potatoes and Christmas Stars

39

BONUS - Why can't anything go faster than the speed of light?

40

The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts

41

BONUS - Nuclear Pasta & G-Astronomy

42

Strange Stars and Bizarre Binaries

43

BONUS - A Bumper Edition

44

Untangling the Cosmic Web

45

BONUS - What distorts time?

46

We Made It To Mercury!

47

BONUS - Galaxy Spin and Saving Herstmonceux Observatory

48

Venus aka "Earth's Evil Twin"

49

BONUS - Overmassive Galaxies

50

Q&A - Black Hole Special

51

BONUS - Lumpy Space Potatoes

52

The Major Lunar Standstill

53

BONUS - Why does the Aurora Borealis look better on my phone?

54

Voyager: Where no-one has gone before...

55

BONUS - Wobbly Planets and Baby Names

56

Into The Interstellar

57

BONUS - Dust, stars and alien streetlights

58

Quakes in Space

59

BONUS - Double Yolker Galaxies

60

The End of the World

61

Do We Live In A Multiverse?

62

BONUS - Could Space Junk Block JWST's View?

63

Neptune... At Last!

64

BONUS - Space News Bulletin

65

Q&A - Spice Girls, Black Holes, and Ice-Cream in Space

66

BONUS - Have you heard of "Ploonets"?

67

Uranus the Oddball

68

BONUS - Team Enceladus or Team Europa?

69

Here Comes the Sun...with NASA's Head of Science

70

BONUS - Aimless telescopes & beyond the Milky Way

71

Most of the Universe is missing...

72

BONUS – White holes, astrology and why is Venus so hot?

73

A (brief) History of Astronomy

74

BONUS - Why do Gas Giants exist?

75

BIG Observatories

76

BONUS - Are Lunar Poles Arbitrary?

77

40: Becky Loves Saturn

78

39: BONUS - Do black holes stop time?

79

39: Jupiter The Monster

80

38: BONUS - More Comets, Less Asteroids

81

38: Gettin' Gravitational Wave-y

82

37: BONUS - The Supermassive Mailbox

83

37: Q&A - Black Hole Burps and Space Station Pacman

84

36: Stargazing with Team Supermassive

85

Double Astronaut Special: Returning to the Moon

86

34: How to Deflect an Asteroid

87

33: Q&A - The Year in Space

88

32: JWST First Images... FINALLY!

89

31: Life on Mars - LIVE from Standon Calling

90

30: Rocky Planets Rock

91

29: Gas Giants are Weird

92

28: How to Kill a Galaxy

93

27: How to Build a Galaxy

94

26: The Marvellous Moon

95

25: A Supermassive Q&A!

96

24: Eclipses & Expeditions

97

23: The End of the Universe

98

22: JWST - Seeing the First Stars

99

21: Icy Worlds

100

20: Firey Worlds

101

19: Radiation Belts and Billionaires

102

18: A Hunk of Space Junk

103

17: Hunting for Planet 9

104

16: Mysteries of the Kuiper Belt

105

Neutron Stars - with Jocelyn Bell Burnell

106

A Star Is Born

107

New Year, New Universe

108

Gamma Rays & Christmas Stars

109

Radio Skies & Strange Signals

110

Humans In Space - with Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

111

The Power of Space Probes

112

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

113

Down To Earth

114

Looking for Alien Life

115

Exploring Exoplanets

116

Under the Space Weather

117

Our Neighbourhood Star

118

It's All Relativity...

119

Seeing The Invisible Universe