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Watch: Very Large Telescope uses giant lasers in hunt for black holes

Physics

Watch: Very Large Telescope uses giant lasers in hunt for black holes

On a mountaintop in Chile sits the world’s most powerful optical telescope, searching for the edge of black holes, and using huge lasers to guide its gaze

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Ultima Thule

Space

Ultima Thule is a snowman-shaped rock covered in weird ice

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Physics

World's most powerful telescope takes us to the edge of a black hole

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Space

Distant space rock Ultima Thule looks like a spinning bowling pin

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NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited

Space

NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited

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Geraint Lewis: What is the fate of our universe?

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Geraint Lewis: What is the fate of our universe?

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Space

2019 Preview: We will see the first ever picture of a black hole

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Life

Quiz of the year: Test your knowledge of 2018’s science stories

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Space

The world's great nations are revisiting the moon. But where's Europe?

Culture

Virgin Galactic claims its first successful flight to edge of space

Space

Virgin Galactic claims its first successful flight to edge of space

Richard Branson's space tourism firm says it has finally made a flight to the edge of space - though the craft did not reach the currently accepted definition of 100 kilometres up

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Space

First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world

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Niamh Shaw: Simulating life on Mars

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Chamkaur Ghag: The hunt for dark matter

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Space

Astronauts launch in Soyuz rocket for first time since botched takeoff

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