The study of extreme physics brought us the bomb. It has taken us inside the violent death of a star. Now, it has brought us face to face with the most destructive force in nature: a supermassive black hole. How large, how powerful, can these monsters get and what can they tell us about the extremes of time and space?

AI expert Jordan Nguyen gets behind the China's leading science labs, to see how the country is moving from its maker past into a cutting-edge new world driven by science. In this episode, Dr Jordan Nguyen investigates the science needed to cope with a changing planet. He meets world leading experts using CRISPR to provide new crops, AI that monitors Amur Tiger populations and a quantum physicist that has created an unhackable internet.

The Universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. Many astronomers today believe that what we can see represents only a small fraction of all there is. What lies beyond the streams of galaxies that extend as far as our telescopes can see? Where does it all end? Come with us on this journey to the edge of space.