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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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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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Catherine Heymans: The dark side of the universe

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Catherine Heymans: The dark side of the universe

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Epic history of light reveals the universe peaked 10 billion years ago

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Weather forecasts from alien worlds are in - and it's wild out there

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The LIGO collaboration must respond to gravitational wave criticism

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The BepiColombo spacecraft is on its way to Mercury

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The legacy of Stephen Hawking

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The legacy of Stephen Hawking

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The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum

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The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum

Mesmerising footage from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and an exquisite Bronze Age golden disc help a new show capture our complex relationship with the sun

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There's a glitch at the edge of the universe that could remake physics

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

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10 mysteries of the universe: What is dark matter?

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10 mysteries of the universe: Is Earth in a special place?

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