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

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

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2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons

2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons

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

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If you think black holes are strange, white holes will blow your mind

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artists impression of merging black holes

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LIGO found four more pairs of black holes, including the biggest yet

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Don't Miss: social media violence, lowdown on AI, scary black holes

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What it's like to be sucked into a black hole – without dying

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Stephen Fairhurst: Gravitational wave hunting

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Stephen Fairhurst: Gravitational wave hunting

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A pair of black holes

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Gravitational waves from black hole pairs could act like tractor beams

When two black holes orbit one another, they create a swirling vortex of gravitational waves that could trap any nearby objects like a sci-fi tractor beam

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

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Jim Al-Khalili: A brief history of gravity

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

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Freak gravitational waves could form black holes and destroy Earth

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