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Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe

So, what will our descendantsactually see when they look up into the night skyin a few...

So, what will our descendants
actually see when they look up into the night sky
in a few billion years' time?

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So, what will our descendants actually see
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when they look up into the night sky in a few billion years' time?
Duration
8 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:34:20
Uploaded
Jul 08, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
documentary

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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 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...
S01 • E02 Science has a habit of opening up new possibilities - - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
Science has a habit of opening up new possibilities -
S01 • E02 We've known our universe is expanding since the 1920s, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:09
We've known our universe is expanding since the 1920s,
S01 • E02 Then, in the late 1990s, it was discovered - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
Then, in the late 1990s, it was discovered
S01 • E02 Nobel Prize winner Brian Schmidt - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
Nobel Prize winner Brian Schmidt
S01 • E02 BRIAN SCHMIDT: 1998, we went through and we measured - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:07
BRIAN SCHMIDT: 1998, we went through and we measured