The Multiverse Employee Handbook – A Science Comedy Podcast about Space, Physics, and Corporate Absurdity.

Welcome to cosmic dawn, where the James Webb Space Telescope discovered compact objects that appeared to violate every comfortable assumption about early black hole formation, and astronomers spent several years proposing increasingly exotic explanations before realising they’d been fooled by electron scattering through dense ionised gas cocoons. In this examination of spectroscopic detective work, we discover how seemingly impossible billion-solar-mass black holes turned out to be perfectly reasonable hundred-thousand-solar-mass black holes wearing very convincing disguises.

Welcome to the orbital hospitality industry, where asking about room rates reveals that space tourism exists in a superposition of “actually happening” and “catastrophically expensive,” and considers “sort of” a perfectly acceptable marketing qualifier. In this examination of commercial space stations, we discover that humans who aren’t astronauts are genuinely living in orbit for weeks at a time—assuming they have the financial resources of a small nation and a flexible definition of “holiday relaxation.”