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@jfbeam
January 13, 2026 at 5:40 pm
What is dark energy and dark matter? Simple answer: BS that makes the math worth. Best case, our theories of the universe are incomplete, and slightly off because there’s things we haven’t seen. (that’s the “dark'” part) However, if history is any indication, our theories could just be wrong, and someday we’ll have new theories. (I like to point to the concentric circles model of the solar system. The math worked to explain what they could see at the time. Today we know that was complete bunk, and does _not_ explain what _we_ can see.)
Similarly, before the neutrino had been discovered, it was “dark matter” – something we’d never seen but if the math is correct, it should exist.
@User-54631
January 13, 2026 at 5:41 pm
🤯
@constanterratic4252
January 13, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Ugh why is it all so huge and impossible for me to know everything I want to know about what’s out there! 😩
@michaeldarby6293
January 13, 2026 at 5:59 pm
I want to see this presenter explain the big bang to a “young earth creationist” lol
@mostly_insane2291
January 13, 2026 at 5:59 pm
How come we can find objects millions of light years away but we’re not sure if there’s a ninth planet in our own solar system?
@RainbowisMagic
January 13, 2026 at 6:03 pm
There’s a very good Veritasium video giving an answer to your question.
@mostly_insane2291
January 13, 2026 at 8:01 pm
@RainbowisMagic it was a little helpful. That led me to a Startalk video that was much more helpful. Neil Degrasse Tyson is good at explaining things in a way ordinary people understand.
@RainbowisMagic
January 13, 2026 at 8:05 pm
@mostly_insane2291 oh interesting. I’ll take a look at that as well! Glad it was helpful to you 😀
@thomashoglund5671
January 13, 2026 at 6:02 pm
In the 90s the star types were: O B A F G K M R N S.
Because there was a mnemonic to remember them: “Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now Sweetheart”.
@PracticalPreparedness-n4u
January 13, 2026 at 6:07 pm
If a solar flare was big enough to take out the internet then we have bigger problems than no internet. It would take out almost every computerized device on the planet. The power grid would go down, medical equipment would fail, cars built after 1970 would stop working.
@gursimransingh2800
January 13, 2026 at 6:18 pm
I hate when people with absolutely no idea about science would make random claims in comment sections! This Scientist is amazing!! 💯
@merciful_poseidon
January 13, 2026 at 6:37 pm
If the observable universe / cloud of cosmic radiation is a sphere and we question what is outside this expanding bubble of seeming infiniteness. The answer feels pretty clear on two things: there’s nothing or there’s more bubbles of seeming infiniteness.
@Muller2002
January 13, 2026 at 6:43 pm
GET BRAIN COX ON HERE
@markstewart3399
January 13, 2026 at 6:50 pm
Hello there, existential dread. 👋
@Axelrooni
January 13, 2026 at 7:15 pm
If you’ve watched Star Trek V, I think you know the answer to one of these questions, right?
@eoinboru
January 13, 2026 at 7:20 pm
The center of the Milky Way is caramel and nougat
@allentastic
January 13, 2026 at 7:25 pm
All of the anthropomorphic language in this episode breaks my brain. Rocks don’t “want” anything 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣
@muhammedirfans4412
January 13, 2026 at 7:45 pm
I watch all these expert wired as if I am a kid . It’s one of my favourite things to do . Never stop
@devina.2238
January 13, 2026 at 7:45 pm
Time is relative; our concept of time is based on the Solar System, so it’s pretty impossible to put and age on anything that pre-dates it
@mairymmorales6410
January 13, 2026 at 7:47 pm
I love how her answers are clear and precise, but also short and to-the-point 👍🏼 Great job! I wish she was my teacher lol
@muhammedirfans4412
January 13, 2026 at 7:58 pm
She explains all these so well ,
Never stop making these kind of wired interviews . It helps me feel like a kid again who used to watch National Geographic all the time
@ashyboyplays
January 13, 2026 at 8:06 pm
The study of the universe has always made me emotional and I don’t understand why. It’s to beautiful and to vast to comprehend!
@ConjureNoonSloth
January 13, 2026 at 8:08 pm
Really great video, space is just the best.
Also at 14:23 it’s fewer sunspots 👍
@thrillhouse22
January 13, 2026 at 8:08 pm
Great video
@robinwilliamsdouble5009
January 13, 2026 at 8:15 pm
She has some serious vocal fry going on. Try not to do it. It’s not good for your throat.
@kirbymarchbarcena
January 13, 2026 at 8:15 pm
I don’t like the sound of “Spaghettification”…I prefer “Ramenized”
@anothersquid
January 13, 2026 at 8:15 pm
This episode was excellent!
@DarkeCrimson
January 13, 2026 at 8:18 pm
My childhood self thought that blackholes meant instant death. Are we all just slowly moving toward the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy?
@aliali-ce3yf
January 14, 2026 at 1:17 pm
7:17 – I thought no one has proved dark matter actually exists. Isn’t just a hypothetical to make some theories valid? May not even be real
@user-lp3ew1xb5u
January 14, 2026 at 1:50 pm
I made a brown dwarf this morning …
@michaelduvall9448
January 14, 2026 at 2:01 pm
A creamy nugget filling
@princessarugula
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 pm
I love the new background hehe
@9Ballr
January 14, 2026 at 2:16 pm
What’s at the center of the Milky Way? A fluffy, chocolate-flavored nougat base, topped with a layer of creamy caramel, all covered in milk chocolate.
@MattHealey.
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 pm
The expanse got it all right
@PUFFDABS
January 14, 2026 at 2:45 pm
Ah hmm yes, and where is god in all this?😆
@ElecticMonk
January 14, 2026 at 2:48 pm
“Are you dominating your area” is the gangster I’m trying to bring to 2026
@bernardselasienkpe4084
January 14, 2026 at 3:05 pm
“hey Pluto, you’re not commanding you’re space the way Jupiter is, you’re also not walking in the line we showed you. We thereby demote you to Dwarf planet. *Bangs gavel* “
@chrisbonshor2208
January 14, 2026 at 3:06 pm
Hmmm still not sure how mercury in retrograde keeps messing with my life plans… 😅
@unknown19366
January 14, 2026 at 3:19 pm
0:35 bull xit, there’s no way to prove if had a beginning or if it has always existed
@raleighnoel
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 pm
A movie where people send out a bunch of cameras at insane distances to look at the past! Like we could live stream. What was happening in the Cretaceous. At a certain place in Earth. How cool would that be
@unknown19366
January 14, 2026 at 3:27 pm
0:46 fluatitions in my a zz
@raleighnoel
January 14, 2026 at 3:28 pm
Can we discuss her polite candor and gentleness when describing Pluto’s status as a dwarf planet? I just love how much sympathy we have for the little guy
@tradward
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 pm
0:50 assuming that the big bang actually happened
@TheRafaelRamos
January 14, 2026 at 6:07 pm
The fact that we know a lot about the universe, but there is still so little information, will always be awesome to me
@LVVMCMLV
January 14, 2026 at 6:39 pm
…a fluffy nougat center topped with a layer of sweet caramel, all enrobed in milk chocolate
@richardh7044
January 14, 2026 at 7:10 pm
How do you submit questions for these?
@ratboy12002
January 14, 2026 at 7:11 pm
Ok, so dark matter doesn’t give off light. Does it not block light either? Like how are we seeing through 95% of the universe to be able to observe the other 5%? Could it also be possible that maybe gravity somehow makes matter want to form together into structures on a cosmic scale the same way that carbon atoms like to arrange in hexagons?
@GPosner8
January 14, 2026 at 7:17 pm
The only item on my bucket list is to sit down with an astrophysicist and get really high and then just trip out✌️🤙
@angiesWAP45
January 14, 2026 at 7:19 pm
love all the videos with astronomers and astrophysicists I’m obsessed with space and I’m obsessed with this series
@jubblyplank
January 14, 2026 at 7:45 pm
“The big crunch” got me 😂
@modrozelenaalga9607
January 14, 2026 at 7:57 pm
If the Sun can burp in public, then so can I!
@ragnork61
January 14, 2026 at 8:09 pm
We know how old the universe is because CBMR. got it. No further questions.
@acedude112
January 14, 2026 at 8:20 pm
No disrespect to Dr Faherty, but I’m just glad to see a pop sci ‘thing’ on astronomy and cosmology that ISNT done by NDT.
@JackHarvey_04
January 15, 2026 at 10:00 am
I’m 5 mins in and low key could have answered all of these. The general population lacks so much information it’s appalling.
@amar.mohamed
January 15, 2026 at 10:05 am
Absolutely love these kind of videos! Never stop making them please!!!
@bumbum3061
January 15, 2026 at 10:31 am
milk
@octosalias5785
January 15, 2026 at 10:53 am
Our Panopticon Jailer
@belindaangraini1013
January 15, 2026 at 11:11 am
Second bestttttttttt vid after the city architecture thing ❤❤❤❤
@geneh460
January 15, 2026 at 11:12 am
Some say super massive black hole, some say nougat and caramel.
@Amanda1000xx
January 15, 2026 at 11:37 am
Jackie!!! best astronomy professor ever <3333
@kearseymorton2078
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 pm
milk? mousse au chocolat?
@LetsG00000
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 pm
5:25 *which came first? The egg? Or the carton of eggs?* type question😂
@pollyseip
January 15, 2026 at 12:20 pm
16:41 Pluto … is also smaller than the Moon.
@VivianDanger
January 15, 2026 at 12:34 pm
“Kinda looks like a spiderweb” Yeah, Mages have been telling ppl that for ages. The pattern, the weave… c’mon bruh
@ericward9060
January 15, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Nougat everybody knows that
@fatehyabali
January 15, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Ff
@pfcsalentine
January 15, 2026 at 1:30 pm
Phrase stuff better. Big Bang is one theory it’s not proven. 3IAtlas and the 2 others that entered our solar system never were 100% identified. More speculation and theories. Stop with, it’s a matter of fact on all of these questions.
@kcirlil
January 15, 2026 at 1:34 pm
Notice how she said spaghettification is an idea, not fact.
When we account for this, understanding the big bang, or at 14B light years away aka the beginning of the universe is the event horizon of our black hole
@beau-urns
January 15, 2026 at 1:40 pm
And people think that “god” cares that you like the same gender as yourself.
The terrifying vastness and ancientness of the universe really puts into perspective these fairy tails
@oluwatoniayodele7920
January 15, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Big bang isn’t the beginning of our universe but the end of another Universe.
@brianmaniora3992
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 pm
She says the universe is getting larger and its infinite. It can’t be both.
@MultiSaintsfan123
January 15, 2026 at 4:26 pm
It can and is
@mckenziewoyak9638
January 15, 2026 at 4:07 pm
she is so good at explaining things to people without cosmological knowledge i love her
@Sonofspam64
January 15, 2026 at 4:20 pm
The correct answer is there’s a creamy nougat at the center of a Milky Way.
@goldfish09
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 pm
These filaments and webs we see making up the universe structure make me think I’m seeing some kind of biological organism, but I can’t put my finger on it
@uni-byte
January 15, 2026 at 6:14 pm
Q: “What’s at the center of the Milky Way?” A: “Nougat.”
@Liam_st95
January 15, 2026 at 6:17 pm
I could watch her all day she’s so engaging, knowledgeable and just fantastic!!
@StephanieLsdc6d7x
January 15, 2026 at 6:45 pm
❤❤❤I wonder if this stuff ever blows their minds. Even with the job they have, do they ever stop and think wow this is wild. 😂
@Space_Toasty
January 15, 2026 at 8:26 pm
So, like, the beginning of the universe, is kinda the end, as well?
@Empathusiast
January 16, 2026 at 9:49 am
I wonder if the people who ask these questions are aware that their comment has been featured in a video
@Thevikingninja117
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 am
Ignorant people: “BUT HOW DO THEY KNOW ALL THAT?!” 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@butwaitihaveaquestion
January 16, 2026 at 12:41 pm
What’s at the center of the Milky Way? Smooth and creamy caramel with a crisp, crunchy wafer. Duh! 😂
@heavenlyxtacy
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 pm
0.23 somebody is still using siri….
@CraigAnderson-h2h
January 16, 2026 at 12:45 pm
Gooey sweet stuff…
@MissKosmic
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 pm
Nougat 😂
@dearthditch
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 pm
I don’t count the big crunch as the end, so long as it starts the next big bang. The other two end all chance of life forever
@shamrock-
January 16, 2026 at 2:45 pm
My sister: Caramel, usually
@urbanstrencan
January 16, 2026 at 3:33 pm
WIRED team another simply awesome explainer video, keep it on🤟🤟🤟🤟💪⚡
@burakkebabc7090
January 16, 2026 at 3:51 pm
I could listen to her explain all these things FOREVER
@sethroy4202
January 16, 2026 at 4:29 pm
At the center of the Milky Way there’s nuget and nuts.
@tyson3577
January 16, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Chocolate nougat and caramel….
@CircleVGamer
January 16, 2026 at 4:49 pm
So what she is saying is Pluto is a wee bit special and cause we can’t pick on people like that anymore have to pick on Pluto
@sylvainbougie7269
January 16, 2026 at 4:49 pm
At the center? Soft chewy chocolate?
@anklesoncredentials
January 16, 2026 at 5:10 pm
nougat
@richardedwards9044
January 16, 2026 at 5:27 pm
Earth is the center of the observable universe, assuming the person reading on this is on Earth.
@richardedwards9044
January 16, 2026 at 5:29 pm
I hope the reader understands that, while this is true, all it actually asserts is that the observer is on Earth. No value to this true statement.
@beerisgood25
January 16, 2026 at 6:12 pm
So if the heat death is a likely way for the universe to die, how do we know it hasn’t happened before? Is the big bang and eventual heat death cyclic?
@baddie2400
January 16, 2026 at 6:14 pm
The valley girl vocal fry is EVERYTHING I needed to watch this video through and through….bring her more often please
@coloradobowers
January 16, 2026 at 6:58 pm
Caramel
@seekthetruth5440
January 16, 2026 at 7:08 pm
So. I’ve read recently, very recently. That the expansion is actually slowing. Still expanding, however not faster but beginning to slow. This came about by a recalculation of the measures of distance which was found to be flawed. That it is believed now that dark energy is weakening
@6ofwrev
January 16, 2026 at 7:56 pm
The Big Bang Theory is crap. We don’t have the technology to look that far away. It’s called the ‘observable universe’ for a reason. Microscopic, and insignificant, is all we are.
@AntiqueCoin3378
January 16, 2026 at 8:06 pm
Pluto will always be a planet! VIVA LA PLUTO!
@alpacamale2909
January 16, 2026 at 8:12 pm
The milky roundabout?
@imreh5588
January 16, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Nougat
@LordFaggatron
January 16, 2026 at 8:25 pm
2:40 if the universe is infinite then how did it have a beginning? 🤔
@donjerisha
January 17, 2026 at 10:08 am
watching this right after i finished Orb: On the Movement of the Earth anime on Netflix
@Moreira787
January 17, 2026 at 10:10 am
You heard about Pluto? That’s messed up
@diptadhar5151
January 17, 2026 at 10:10 am
Just grok it!
@joeman408
January 17, 2026 at 10:16 am
If the universe were truly infinite, wouldn’t it be guaranteed that there are exact copies of all of us out there somewhere? I’ve always thought the universe was finite so hearing now that scientists may think it’s infinite is simultaneously exciting and terrifying.
@ToddJones-f9h
January 17, 2026 at 10:30 am
She’s talking to us like we’re retards.
@Phi1618033
January 17, 2026 at 11:25 am
The sun is such an a-hole.
@TeketelAdane
January 17, 2026 at 11:41 am
Is the universe designed by a grand designer or a random collection that was started by the Big Bang? If it is random, how we could able to agree in all these scientific knowledge by developing all these theories and even how could we believe what you are telling us is correct not random?
@Beanhill_94
January 17, 2026 at 11:56 am
I mean how can we believe the grand design too. The science is there. If people choose to reject it for their own interests then it’s on them.
@quickSilverXMen
January 17, 2026 at 12:59 pm
Bring back white background because it looks like qna otherwise it looks like a normal interview or podcast which I hate
@acedogg692005
January 17, 2026 at 1:31 pm
You can tell some people don’t watch astrophysicist Stefan Burns. P.S. I bet Dr. Jackie has a very nice cat or two lol
@abhy301
January 17, 2026 at 2:01 pm
I get it — These are not easy to comprehend even if you’re majored in science; so it’s completely natural people push back on science and embrace God A.K.A. Dark Energy 😊
@wilfredoortiz4146
January 17, 2026 at 2:28 pm
Chocolaty Nougat. That’s what’s at the center of the Milky Way.
@FrankieB
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 pm
Poor Pluto
@alisa-bg1wr
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 pm
OMG Jackie Faherty is great!! I’ve been at Astronomy Live lectures where she presented, she always explains everything well!! So happy to see her on Wired!
@vijayveersudhakar1213
January 17, 2026 at 3:07 pm
Dr. Jacky Faherty have some kind of charm I can’t explain. If she wears a crown and sit silently I will confuse her for a British Queen.
@vijayveersudhakar1213
January 17, 2026 at 3:09 pm
It was kind of funny when she said that If we can find best eye balls available to see night sky 🤣🤣
@jwr6796
January 17, 2026 at 3:11 pm
Nouget
@richardfreeman5889
January 17, 2026 at 5:03 pm
If there are other universes, doesn’t that mean there’s an edge to each universe? So, how can the universe be infinite if there’s an edge?
@PriEconSci-77-USA
January 17, 2026 at 5:10 pm
Allow me to save you all time. Nougat and Carmel is in the middle.
@tawnyowl4057
January 17, 2026 at 5:54 pm
Finally a darker background
@TaMeuBem
January 17, 2026 at 6:01 pm
I saw the milky way in Australia 20 years ago and Ive never seen a picture of what I saw that night again. It was a big white bow across the sky. I was like OH IT IS MILKY?!? 🤯
@ViralGabeClipz
January 17, 2026 at 6:29 pm
Most of these questions I answered. I’m a smart little noodle
@animShenanigans
January 17, 2026 at 7:16 pm
Nougat?
@Bigdukedog
January 17, 2026 at 7:45 pm
if the universe is 14 billion years old how is the observable universe 43 billion light years across?
@CrustyUgg
January 17, 2026 at 7:52 pm
An infinite universe that’s expanding? I cannot wrap my head around it!! Also, there being a black hole in the center of our galaxy makes me think any second we could be sucked in and I have anxiety now
@khomo12
January 17, 2026 at 8:23 pm
Great!👍👍👍
@TheSerpent69
January 17, 2026 at 10:38 pm
Caramel and nuget.
@mscott54321
January 17, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Pluto now all like:
I’m on a plane
I can’t complain
I’m on a plane
I love myself better than you
I know it’s wrong so what should I do?
I got so high I scratched ’till I bled
I love myself better than you
I know it’s wrong so what should I do?
@roberthenderson2580
January 17, 2026 at 10:46 pm
This may be a dumb question but ..the universe is expanding why isn’t the solar system expanding as well?
@RebeccaPaige
January 17, 2026 at 10:58 pm
Caramel. Caramel is in the middle
@CaptainCamellot
January 18, 2026 at 1:23 am
Doesn’t the Milky Way have a nutty caramel center?
@juanferestrada
January 18, 2026 at 2:03 am
Awesome and beautiful video!
@deanospimoniful
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 am
I watch videos about astronomy late at night when I can’t sleep. The vastness of the cosmos somehow brings a sense of peace.
@SleezeGoblin
January 18, 2026 at 4:33 am
I thought the thumbnail was about the candy
@nathanvalaneildaniel3123
January 18, 2026 at 7:09 am
Love this videos
@gbell8112
January 18, 2026 at 8:31 am
Even I know caramel and nougat are at the center duh!
@deltalima6703
January 18, 2026 at 10:19 am
A lot of star glazers in the comments. Her explanations werent great.
@rosi5059
January 18, 2026 at 10:23 am
How will the universe end? Since the universe began with an explosion (The Big Bang) and is currently expanding, science suggests a theory called ‘The Big Crunch.’ This theory proposes that the universe will eventually stop expanding and begin to collapse or ‘fold’ back in on itself.
This scientific concept is beautifully described in the Quran, in Surah Al-Anbiya [21:104]:
‘The Day when We will fold the heaven like the folding of a [written] sheet for the records. As We began the first creation, We will repeat it. [That is] a promise binding upon Us. Indeed, We will do it.’
@AeAeRon
January 18, 2026 at 10:32 am
Several statements left unclear. It’s likely because of the editing. The details matter because they affect how you interpret her general statements.
@alexisyoung640
January 18, 2026 at 11:32 am
Science says the universe is expanding rapidly. I think maybe it’s not the universe—it’s us. Our technology and perception might simply not be advanced enough yet to grasp the whole picture at once.
@BattlemasterAurust
January 18, 2026 at 11:47 am
As a caveat to what came first stars or galaxies….recent observations seem to indicate that black holes may have come first and formed in the quark gluon plasma before the microwave background became transparent.
@chibi5694
January 18, 2026 at 12:10 pm
17:54 This sounds so frightening that two objects colliding with each other causes the freaking, Space Time to wobble around it.
My Fantasy story loving brain is enjoying every bit of this information
@wafimah
January 18, 2026 at 2:28 pm
“What’s at the center of the Milky Way?”
Come on! Everyone knows it’s caramel and delicious nougats.
@fslayer1290
January 18, 2026 at 3:03 pm
Beautiful. Thank you!
@heymanthatscoolable
January 18, 2026 at 3:37 pm
I’m attracted to her and, at the same time, kind of afraid of her
@LasseDamgaard
January 18, 2026 at 4:57 pm
Never stop doing these videos, Wired! Almost all of them are incredibly compelling and educational.
@custommodelmaking
January 18, 2026 at 5:16 pm
I disagree on the universe not having a center. Everything that is 3dimensional has a point that is inbetween all its furthest points. Not knowing what those points are doesnt mean there is no center.
@ogelsmogel
January 18, 2026 at 5:26 pm
18:57 …is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
@TeambrutalDeluxe
January 18, 2026 at 6:46 pm
What the helly does the universe expand into? What is beyond it if it is infinite? My brain hurts
@Obsidianone831
January 18, 2026 at 7:24 pm
4:31I thought all black holes “spaghettify” you. No, just the supermassive ones! I learned something new! Good for me!
@rodrigomagnabosco2230
January 18, 2026 at 8:00 pm
Content is awesome but that vocal fry is so annoying
@FrenchStarterFle
January 19, 2026 at 12:36 am
Très bonne interview.
En français : “C’est intéressant.”
@SpectrumHub12
January 19, 2026 at 1:07 am
🎉🎉🎉🎉
@williamhayes981
January 19, 2026 at 1:58 am
A supermassive black hole…. Sagittarius A
That’s what is at the middle of the Milky Way galaxy.
@MyGoal185cm75kg
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 am
i wanna go there and die
@EmanSLived
January 19, 2026 at 2:23 am
first answer… meh, she’s not acknowledging JWST come on…. then the cockiness of her second answer, LOL, it was just too much to take…. just check a real scientist at “avi loeb medium”
@nickb220
January 19, 2026 at 2:32 am
If the universe had a beginning as a small object which is still expanding then how is it infinite
@nickb220
January 19, 2026 at 2:50 am
Would any “distance” in an infinite universe may as well be 0?
@MyGoal185cm75kg
January 19, 2026 at 7:11 am
i wanna learn everything
@iRatchetFan
January 19, 2026 at 7:28 am
Much appreciate the background not being the brightness of 100 suns.
@burnout_2017
January 19, 2026 at 8:19 am
i believe in America its just fluffy whipped nougat with a layer of rich. creamy caramel, the European version lacks the caramel.
sorry, low hangin fruit like that thumbnail question is just to hard to pass up on.
@Julzaa
January 19, 2026 at 8:58 am
These are all very elementary questions, it’s good to see people not knowing the answers yet but being interested in them!
@mriokwee
January 19, 2026 at 10:08 am
Um Dr. Jackie is amazing
@michaelcapone175
January 19, 2026 at 12:26 pm
I don’t mean to be argumentative, but you are wrong about the center of a milky way. Everyone knows at the center of a milky way is a light, chocolate-flavored nougat base topped with a layer of creamy caramel.
@stunningplex5682
January 19, 2026 at 12:27 pm
Who is here after watching Nona Uppal’s video on Instagram!!🙌🏻
@Larsahknight
January 19, 2026 at 12:42 pm
She’s great at explaining complex information in bite-sized non-scientist ways.
@dillonchavez5390
January 19, 2026 at 12:51 pm
I swear I was only going to watch a few minutes… and it ended up being the whole video XD
@derekdjay
January 19, 2026 at 1:12 pm
You don’t say the Universe is 14 billion years old. You don’t get to spoil my meme about past, figuratively distant events of one’s life that says “i was there Gandalf, 13 point 9 billion years ago” where those things seem so distant or foreign to one, that one would think they were in another life.
@arunroolzutoo
January 19, 2026 at 1:37 pm
I don’t like her
@hammads9045
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 pm
Doesn’t the big crunch imply there’s a centre to the universe? Actually, her analogy of there being no centre doesn’t make sense since we are at one “layer” of the big bang, and there are other layers beyond us (where the universe’s background microwaves are)—so I’m trying to say there’s a centre, and we can spread outward
@OMGjessey
January 19, 2026 at 4:46 pm
carmel?
@sudano9958
January 19, 2026 at 4:56 pm
What should I have for dinner tonight?
@MADAOSushi
January 19, 2026 at 4:57 pm
It’s nougat and caramel in the center. I saved you 25min.
@elisedavenport5472
January 19, 2026 at 5:49 pm
But what are we expanding into? Is there just infinite space beyond the universe to expand into. When does it end? 8:43
@wassabied
January 19, 2026 at 6:05 pm
❤
@user-zp8pn4no8k
January 19, 2026 at 7:11 pm
These people just pretend they know everything yet when something challenges the paradigm theyre minds explode and they revert to 200 year old science 😂 cmon
@benken9131
January 19, 2026 at 8:09 pm
so wait when we watch eclipse it has actually happened 7 min ago?
@theragingdolphinsmaniac4696
January 19, 2026 at 10:38 pm
Fluffy nougat of course
@AngelA-op4oe
January 20, 2026 at 12:21 am
Chappell Roan really cooked on this one
@moltoemilia
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 am
She needs to do another one. That was incredible.
@milfordgunnie4599
January 20, 2026 at 3:08 am
She is the Milfy Way
@TatianaBoshenka
January 20, 2026 at 3:35 am
What about vacuum decay? That could take us out at any time.
@akselxXx
January 20, 2026 at 4:33 am
<3
@simonkendra3079
January 20, 2026 at 6:06 am
This is one of the best ones I have seen. She is amazing.
@svenolofandersson2572
January 20, 2026 at 10:00 am
What’s in the centre of the Milky Way? Toffee!
@xce
January 20, 2026 at 11:08 am
Thought this was Sona for a second
@APPR3NTIC3
January 20, 2026 at 11:31 am
Fun Fact: The big crunch could also set up a “second” big bang. If so this could suggest that the “second” part might be a misnomer and we might have done all this before.
@evairywon
January 20, 2026 at 11:57 am
16:35 i wonder why all the planets form this plane around the sun? One of the things that always kind of wigged me out about space is that directions like up, down, left & right seem to be really subjective out there, like if it’s infinite in all directions then “up” at some point kinda becomes “down”. So how come all the planets in our solar system are able to maintain an orbit that’s flat? Is there maybe a “right-side up” when we’re in space? Same q applies to the degree that planets rotate; why is it that all the planets (sans Uranus) have a relatively similar degree of rotation??
@BannockMonsterr
January 20, 2026 at 12:12 pm
Coool
@fechumartinez
January 20, 2026 at 12:33 pm
The female version of Kirk Hammett
@DarrellChapman
January 20, 2026 at 4:48 pm
17:05 I heard about that. That’s messed up.
@lasvegas_702
January 20, 2026 at 6:28 pm
Isn’t it a combination of cream and nougat?
@harrisonhonda3745
January 20, 2026 at 6:43 pm
What’s at the center of the Milky Way is a stupid question.
It’s already been discovered in that Star Trek movie
@backseatGamer3
January 20, 2026 at 8:42 pm
*Mosquito playing violin in ear*
@slicksalmon6948
January 20, 2026 at 8:47 pm
The center of a classic American Milky Way candy bar has a core of chocolate malt nougat topped with a layer of creamy caramel, all covered in milk chocolate.
@bigusdumby
January 20, 2026 at 9:26 pm
Chewy Nougat?
@infinidimensionalinfinitie5021
January 20, 2026 at 9:29 pm
I WOULDN’T MIND THESE ANSWERS;
IF THEY CAME WITH MORE HEISENBERGIAN UNCERTAINTY;
BUT SO MANY ASSUMPTIONS GIVEN AS FACT;
GIVES ME THE HEEBEEGEEBEES;
@AllTimeScott
January 20, 2026 at 10:33 pm
She’s so knowledgeable. For some reason I feel like we have it all wrong. Can’t elaborate. Just vibes.
@Slickrick7172
January 20, 2026 at 10:38 pm
I think, I am in love.
@kozmospecula5964
January 20, 2026 at 10:48 pm
Center of the Milky Way? Creamy fluff.
@underthewronghat.0101
January 21, 2026 at 2:20 am
So if dark matter is like 80% of the material in the galaxy, why does the galaxy spiral around the Supermassive Black hole in the middle? Seems like we should be orbiting a bunch of dark matter.
@will9001asd
January 21, 2026 at 2:52 am
What if our universe is just inside another exponentially larger universe?
And the expanding of the universe by dark energy is the larger universe pulling on ours. Like a person pulling a rubber band. It’s accelerating by intention to reach the breaking point quicker.
Until it snaps and we just have leftover residue afterwards and we coined that the big bang event 🤪🤪
@MRWQLDSSTAU-1000
January 21, 2026 at 5:03 am
Its nougat isnt it?
@fishingbeardo
January 21, 2026 at 9:02 am
The Center of the Milky Way? Nougat and caramel.
@minerliton2481
January 21, 2026 at 10:53 am
I WANNA BE AN ASTRONAUT
@andolas100
January 21, 2026 at 12:47 pm
I answered most of these questions out loud before you did and I am extremely amature, I liked your answers too 🙂 do you like Brian Cox?
@JayMitch-c6l3p
January 21, 2026 at 12:55 pm
Why is she speaking about the universe? She works in a history museum
@lucassantilli
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 pm
I really wonder how astronomers get out of bed every day having this much awareness of human insignificance
@ananiaharutyunyan
January 21, 2026 at 4:34 pm
Serious question that has always bothered me: if some serious disaster strikes like a meteor or something, do we have the technology to blow it up? Or our industry is all about blowing other countries up?
@emmah8242
January 21, 2026 at 6:40 pm
Thanks Jackie and Wired. Love the scientific episodes.
@di99utpe
January 21, 2026 at 8:16 pm
Anyone else think she looks like a Hogwarts professor?
@shauncorney5944
January 21, 2026 at 8:58 pm
This woman was excellent! Great vid…
@KingPugula
January 21, 2026 at 10:59 pm
nougat, duh haven’t you eaten a milky way before
@miterca
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 pm
This was soo interesting! Tysm for this vid
@dirkkortegast6433
January 22, 2026 at 4:52 am
Knowing that our solar system, and any given galaxy, are roughly disc shaped – why wouldn’t the universe be a big old disc, too, circling around some super cluster of mass? Maybe atoms, too, are teeny tiny discs?
@zaidtariq.
January 22, 2026 at 8:59 am
In the center is 🍼
@FatalWarGhost
January 22, 2026 at 10:51 am
21:40 I thought the Milky Way was estimated at 100,000 ly across unless there’s information i dont know about.
@CavemanBearPig
January 29, 2026 at 4:04 am
23:41
Heh…
@VorfahrtEndetHier
January 29, 2026 at 8:46 am
most of these questions were trivial and/or boring tbh
@paulstdavis
January 29, 2026 at 5:24 pm
Nougat
@CarlyndraTM
January 29, 2026 at 7:01 pm
I like to think that I’m a fairly smart person, but honestly a lot of this is going over my head 🥲
@jamessmithson-br7rm
January 29, 2026 at 8:00 pm
Middle of the Milky Way… nougat topped with caramel
@thepoptale1700
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 pm
Chile that video for the yes option😂and NO I would mind business, karma gonna get that small percent who voted yes
@I_knew_a_guy
January 30, 2026 at 1:32 am
10:36 “And we call that The Big C-“
[Cuts to Ad] 🤦♂️that was absolutely diabolical
@jefftucker9225
January 30, 2026 at 3:42 am
This is a very smart, articulate woman who explains stuff in a way that makes a layman able to understand.
@teajai45
January 30, 2026 at 6:21 pm
6:00 I wonder what the largest known structure in the universe is that largely consists of a continuous solid surface, as opposed to the liquid, gaseous, and/or plasmic structures of gas giants, brown dwarfs, stars, etc.
@usmc1379
January 30, 2026 at 10:27 pm
We don’t say ‘dwarf’ planet anymore. We say ‘little’ planet. 🌚
@SuperAloeFresh
January 31, 2026 at 10:23 am
Should have labeled the G type stars correctly. The sun is white, not yellow. And technically emits more green light than any other color.
@astrojake
February 1, 2026 at 9:34 am
Really great video! Jackie is a superstar within astrophysics!
@TimBee100
February 1, 2026 at 9:15 pm
Jupiter does not have an asteroid belt around it. It is nearby.
@TimBee100
February 1, 2026 at 9:17 pm
So planets have to be on the same plane as the other planets? First time I heard that.
@emstorm1725
February 2, 2026 at 4:38 am
Fantastic questions and answers!
@stagedcaptivity
February 2, 2026 at 5:37 am
This is so interesting! I learned so much<3
@-insert-
February 2, 2026 at 4:05 pm
I would have expected that you’re aware of the latest DESI results that when combined with several previous surveys points to Dark Energy weakening ultimately resulting in a big crunch, not in trillions of years but billions.
@S314159265358979
February 2, 2026 at 5:27 pm
Shallow choice of questions. So goes for the answers
@Sven-k6g
February 2, 2026 at 10:13 pm
Sorry, but I thought WE were off the “Big Bang” theory…. with ever and ever, faster and faster increasing technology… more HAS BEEN REVEALED..AND, More will continue to be revealed….WE ONLY THINK WE KNOW….BUT WE REALLY HAVE NO IDEA….✌️🙏
@enobnala90
February 3, 2026 at 1:12 am
These are excellent questions!
@Floatingshrimp
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 pm
What a great speaker!
@homerco213
February 4, 2026 at 3:53 am
Dwarf planet is stupid. Planetoid is the far superior technical term.
@MeMe-u8h
February 4, 2026 at 3:54 am
Multi Verse? Yes! The animal killed in a factory has a different Universe 😢.
@ages6592
February 4, 2026 at 5:30 pm
The Big Crunch…. which results in a Big Bang and then repeat
@Subject28-ou6fp
February 4, 2026 at 5:57 pm
Justice for Pluto
@neongamer8899
February 4, 2026 at 10:13 pm
Dark matter is so scary 👾
@generichuman2044
February 5, 2026 at 10:56 am
Dr Faherty has one quality that is perfect for this series. She is great at making vastly complicated subjects easy to understand. This isn’t a lecture hall full of PHD students. We don’t need every tiny detail and equation. She does just enough to get people interested and make them look closer
@lisakhulase7469
February 5, 2026 at 4:24 pm
I don’t want this video to end 😢😭😭
@WyoVinny
February 5, 2026 at 10:49 pm
“What’s at the center of the Milky Way?” The nougat layer is thicker than the caramel layer, so technically it must be nougat. But, in the presence of catastrophic manufacturing malfunction, the chocolate, nougat, and caramel combine into a super massive black glob. A glob, not a hole.
@lgwapo6793
February 5, 2026 at 11:25 pm
Creamy Nougat?
@EnriqSandoval
February 6, 2026 at 3:28 am
Nailed it! Fantastic.
@eggybread4937
February 6, 2026 at 5:14 am
So is religion real? Because respectfully, I think it’s just a “human concept”.