The BEST episodes of How the Universe Works season 9
Every episode of How the Universe Works season 9, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of How the Universe Works season 9!
A users' guide to the cosmos, from the Big Bang to galaxies, stars, planets and moons: where did it all come from and how does it all fit together? A primer for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered.

#1 - Journey to a Black Hole
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/24/2021
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.
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#2 - Mission to a Comet
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/31/2021
Experts embark on a ground-breaking mission to land on a comet.
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#3 - Secrets of the Sun
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/7/2021
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe investigates our Sun.
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#4 - Aliens of the Microcosmos
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/14/2021
New discoveries reveal the power of microscopic alien organisms.
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#5 - Curse of the White Dwarf
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/21/2021
Dead stars called white dwarfs may be the key to understanding the cosmos.
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#6 - War of the Galaxies
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/28/2021
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.
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#7 - The Next Supernova
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/5/2021
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.
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#8 - Secret Lives of Neutrinos
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/12/2021
New science reveals why neutrinos are the universe's strangest particles.
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#9 - Birth of Monster Black Holes
Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/19/2021
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.
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#10 - Mystery of Alien Worlds
Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/2/2021
New discoveries reveal the secrets of mysterious alien worlds.
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#11 - Gravitational Waves Revealed
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/26/2021
Gravitational waves are helping scientists explore the cosmos in revolutionary, new ways, and the discoveries they make are revealing the universe's greatest mysteries.
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