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Hawking radiation

Physics

Sneak peek at Hawking's last book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Do black holes eat information or do zero-energy particles nicknamed "hairs" somehow store it instead? Before he died, Stephen Hawking was working on new ideas, as this exclusive extract shows

Culture

Jim Al-Khalili: A brief history of gravity

Video

Jim Al-Khalili: A brief history of gravity

Video

10 mysteries of the universe: What makes supermassive black holes?

Space

10 mysteries of the universe: What makes supermassive black holes?

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Freak gravitational waves could form black holes and destroy Earth

Space

Freak gravitational waves could form black holes and destroy Earth

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Weird circles in the sky may be signs of a universe before ours

Space

Weird circles in the sky may be signs of a universe before ours

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Starlight stretched by Milky Way's black hole proves Einstein right

Space

Starlight stretched by Milky Way's black hole proves Einstein right

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Violent black holes spit neutrinos at Earth and we finally caught one

Space

Violent black holes spit neutrinos at Earth and we finally caught one

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black holes

Space

How to think about... Black holes

Features

space-time

Space

The space-time echoes that point to a new theory of reality

Features

Hawking's headstone

Physics

Stars gravitate to Stephen Hawking’s memorial service

There was only one Stephen Hawking but there were a thousand ways to celebrate a genius and science’s only global celebrity at London’s Westminster Abbey

Culture

Space

We've seen a gigantic black hole tear a star in half and eat it

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Space

The centre of our galaxy may be swarming with 10,000 black holes

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Space

Far-off black hole appears to be shredding and devouring a star

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Space

Ancient black holes may have made the first stars look cool

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