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black holes

Black hole

Space

Dark energy may have been hiding in the cores of black holes all along

Observations of galaxy growth can be explained if the black holes at their centre contain dark energy, pointing to a possible role in the universe's expansion

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This illustration shows material from a star being devoured by a supermassive black hole

Space

Supermassive black hole snacks on the same star once every few years

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How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?

Physics

How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?

Features

How sounds from space are revealing otherwise hidden cosmic phenomena

Physics

How sounds from space are revealing otherwise hidden cosmic phenomena

Features

Black hole

Space

We saw the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy in 2022

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An illustration of GRB 221009. A black hole drives powerful jets of particles traveling near the speed of light. The jets pierce through the star, emitting X-rays and gamma rays as they stream into space

Space

A weird gamma ray burst doesn't fit our understanding of the cosmos

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Tidal disruption

Space

Star ripped up by black hole is one of the brightest things ever seen

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Roger Penrose at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford.

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Roger Penrose: Communicating with future universes

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F6ND3J An artist's depiction of a black hole in interstellar space pulling in gas and dust that start to heat. Gamma ray bursts exit at

Space

We may finally know how blazars act as cosmic particle accelerators

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Wormhole

Space

How to tell the difference between a regular black hole and a wormhole

Physicists have worked out how to see whether a black hole is actually a wormhole that could theoretically be travelled through – but we can’t tell yet with the black holes we have observed

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Space

A black hole ate a star and belched out the remains two years later

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Space

Black holes wobbling three times a second have proved Einstein right

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Space

Bubble of hot electrons seen hurtling around our galaxy’s black hole

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Space

Closest black hole to Earth is just 1500 light years away

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