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Stars merging

Space

Supermassive stars may have formed by repeatedly eating their siblings

Some black holes are way bigger than we can explain, and they may have come from supermassive stars that formed by devouring the other stars around them

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Black hole from the early universe is blasting us with a powerful jet

Space

Black hole from the early universe is blasting us with a powerful jet

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Biggest explosion

Space

Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion in the universe

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Milky Way's black hole

Space

Our galaxy’s huge black hole may have created organic molecules

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Chess pieces

Physics

What is reality? Why we still don't understand the world's true nature

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Weird dust balls seen impossibly close to our galaxy’s huge black hole

Space

Weird dust balls seen impossibly close to our galaxy’s huge black hole

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Gravitational wave mystery could be a sign of a new kind of black hole

Space

Gravitational wave mystery could be a sign of a new kind of black hole

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Supernova

Space

Black holes formed from dark matter could be making dead stars explode

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Black hole

Space

We’ve found a black hole that may be smaller than any ever seen before

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Illustration of a wormhole's opening

Space

Quantum weirdness could allow a person-sized wormhole to last forever

We were unsure if wormholes could exist long enough to allow a person through. Now calculations indicate they are extremely rare, but could last the age of the universe

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Space

Born in the big bang: How ancient black holes could save cosmology

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Space

Some planets may orbit a supermassive black hole instead of a star

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Space

Black hole that 'rings' like a bell shows Einstein was right

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Space

There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy

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