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Black holes leak energy when they eat plasma near the event horizon

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Black holes leak energy when they eat plasma near the event horizon

When magnetic fields around a black hole reconnect, they can slow down plasma particles near the event horizon, which cause the black hole to lose energy when it swallows them

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Jumping into a wormhole might cause it to contract and disintegrate

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Jumping into a wormhole might cause it to contract and disintegrate

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The Milky Way's black hole burped out two colossal X-ray bubbles

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The Milky Way's black hole burped out two colossal X-ray bubbles

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Carlo Rovelli: Where does the stuff that falls into a black hole go?

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Carlo Rovelli: Where does the stuff that falls into a black hole go?

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Gravitational wave detectors have found their biggest black hole yet

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Gravitational wave detectors have found their biggest black hole yet

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Travelling through a wormhole without dying may actually be possible

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Travelling through a wormhole without dying may actually be possible

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Science with Sam: What is a black hole? And could you survive one?

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Science with Sam: What is a black hole? And could you survive one?

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Science with Sam

Science with Sam: What is a black hole? And could you survive one?

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The fastest star in our galaxy moves at 8 per cent the speed of light

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Cosmology's new advances show our voyage of discovery is far from over

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Cosmology's new advances show our voyage of discovery is far from over

An incredible map of the universe and mind-bending revelations about a supermassive black hole are evidence that the advance of science is far from over – it has plenty of new shores yet to explore

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Black holes are hiding movies of the universe in their glowing rings

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This week's new questions

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The universe may be full of enormous clusters of tiny black holes

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Why it's better to fall into a big black hole, and other bizarre facts

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