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Supermassive black holes are pretty mind blowing. Some of them are larger than our entire solar system. The problem is, the universe isn't old enough for them to exist.

00:00 Cold Open
00:42 What does Supermassive mean?
02:33 Black Hole Formation
05:21 Quasi-Stars
08:09 What do we know for sure?
09:25 Sponsor Message
10:39 Outro
10:58 Featured Comment

Nick Lucid - Host/Writer/Editor/Animator
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