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Why trying to photograph a black hole was a massive gamble

Astronomers working on the Event Horizon Telescope project didn't know if their attempt to photograph a black hole would pay off, Luciano Rezzolla tells 51动漫 Live

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Mathematics

Mathematicians find 12,000 solutions for fiendish three-body problem

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Artist's impression of a binary black hole system

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Black holes may be hurtling around at 10 per cent the speed of light

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Could a gravitational wave rip apart an entire planet?

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A new image of a supermassive black hole has revealed more of the disc of matter falling into it and the powerful winds created by that process. The black hole in question is called M87*, and it was the subject of the first direct image of a black hole ? this new data will help researchers complete the picture.

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Detailed image of supermassive black hole shows its powerful jet

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How to understand wormholes and their weird quantum effects

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The giant El Gordo galaxy cluster

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JWST spots smallest galaxy outside our local universe

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Artwork of the young Earth-Moon system. The Earth had recently formed when it was struck by a protoplanet called Theia roughly three times the size of Mars. Debris from the impact went into orbit, while the cores of the two planets merged. Within weeks of the event, the debris formed a Saturn-like ring around the Earth. Later collisions in this ring led to the formation of the Moon, probably within just a few thousand years. Initially the Earth and Moon were much closer together than they are now, and spinning more quickly.

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Moon mystery could be solved by simulation of planetary smash-up

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Figure 4. Pseudo-color images of all Cepheid-bearing galaxies analyzed in this work.

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It鈥檚 official 鈥� we don鈥檛 know how fast the universe is expanding

The Hubble constant describes how fast the universe is expanding, but our measurements won鈥檛 line up, which may mean our standard model of the universe is wrong

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Sun-like stars may go through brighter phases as they grow up

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Physics

Why is there something not nothing? The big bang isn鈥檛 the only answer

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Physics

Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes

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Physics

The black hole paradox that thwarts our understanding of reality

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