Light and Dark

12:15 AM to 1:15 AM

Thursday 12 March

Dark

Season 1 Episode 2 of 2

Part two of two. Professor Jim Al-Khalili visits the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, where scientists are attempting to capture and study dark matter. He also reveals how the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating has led to theories that a mysterious new force called dark energy is in the process of gradually tearing the universe apart

Light and Dark airs on BBC Four HD at 12:15 AM, Thursday 12 March. (Subtitles.)

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Topics

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General

Jim Al-Khalili

Presenter

Jonathan Renouf

Executive Producer

Stephen Cooter

Producer