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Image of a simulated black hole merger

Space

Nearly naked black hole lost its 'clothes' to a gravity rip tide

Supermassive black holes are meant to be swaddled inside the starry cloak of a galaxy, but astronomers have just seen one that's almost bare

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Two black holes spiralling together

Space

LIGO discovers new gravitational wave – and new era of astronomy

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M80 - a globular star cluster in the Milky Way

Space

Black hole pairs spat out of mosh pits make gravitational waves

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Graph showing the gravitational wave signal from LIGO

Space

Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

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Space

Was gravitational wave signal from a gravastar, not black holes?

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Artwork of a torus of dust around a black hole

Space

Dusty doughnut around massive black hole spied for first time

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The HAWC observatory near the Sierra Nevada volcano in Mexico

Space

Water telescope’s first sky map shows flickering black holes

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Red-tinted mirror suspended along with other objects

Physics

Gravitational wave hunters gear up to detect extreme black holes

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Space

Physics adventures down the superfluid supersonic black hole

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Space

LIGO could catch dark matter made of black holes

The black holes that kicked off the first detection of gravitational waves seem to be the right size and frequency to be long-sought primordial black holes

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Space

How we'll catch a huge black hole on camera

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Space

Galactic collisions doom entire star systems to black-hole death

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Space

LIGO's black holes may have lived and died inside a huge star

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I was one of the first to know gravitational waves are real

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