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Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe

So the fact thatthe rate is dropping

So the fact that
the rate is dropping

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So the fact that the rate is dropping...
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00:33:41
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Jul 12, 2025
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Professor Brian Cox on tour in Australia talks about the life of our universe to scientists and to space-loving audiences.
S01 • E02 ..you said a factor of two from, what, 10 billion years ago to now, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:10
..you said a factor of two from, what, 10 billion years ago ...
S01 • E02 It's a long time. Not in our lifetimes. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
It's a long time. Not in our lifetimes.
S01 • E02 I think if you do the extrapolation, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:07
I think if you do the extrapolation,
S01 • E02 Eventually, we will run out of gas to form new stars - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:12
Eventually, we will run out of gas to form new stars
S01 • E02 So, what will our descendants actually see - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
So, what will our descendants actually see
S01 • E02 Well, the centre of the galaxy is here, isn't it? - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
Well, the centre of the galaxy is here, isn't it?
S01 • E02 Yeah. It's kind of the empty bit of sky up here - Sagittarius. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
Yeah. It's kind of the empty bit of sky up here - Sagit...
S01 • E02 Peer into the centre of the Milky Way - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:09
Peer into the centre of the Milky Way
S01 • E02 Ours is around 4 million times the mass of the sun. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
Ours is around 4 million times the mass of the sun.
S01 • E02 We don't know how these supermassive black holes form, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:10
We don't know how these supermassive black holes form,
S01 • E02 And when the centre of those stars are more massive - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:15
And when the centre of those stars are more massive
S01 • E02 The gravitational pull is so strong, nothing, even light, can't escape. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
The gravitational pull is so strong, nothing, even light, ca...
S01 • E02 So, then we're left, I suppose, with a dark sky, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
So, then we're left, I suppose, with a dark sky,
S01 • E02 Yeah. ..and, what, fading stellar remnants? - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
Yeah. ..and, what, fading stellar remnants?
S01 • E02 Things like faintly glowing cores of long dead stars, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:10
Things like faintly glowing cores of long dead stars,
S01 • E02 Now, black holes do radiate very, very faintly, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
Now, black holes do radiate very, very faintly,
S01 • E02 You get the sense, I suppose, when you talk about that, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
You get the sense, I suppose, when you talk about that,
S01 • E02 You know, perhaps it's the most beautiful thing - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
You know, perhaps it's the most beautiful thing
S01 • E02 We're only nearly 14 billion years into the universe's history. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
We're only nearly 14 billion years into the universe�...
S01 • E02 So in the far, far future, hundreds of billions of years' time, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:21
So in the far, far future, hundreds of billions of years...