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Can recreating black holes in the lab solve the puzzles of space-time?

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Can recreating black holes in the lab solve the puzzles of space-time?

Researchers are building models of everything from black holes to the big bang in tanks of liquid. Now some claim these surprisingly simple models are showing us where our theories of space-time are wrong

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How we could discover quantum gravity without rebuilding space-time

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Do we live in a hologram? Why physics is still mesmerised by this idea

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Do we live in a hologram? Why physics is still mesmerised by this idea

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Will artificial intelligence ever discover new laws of physics?

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Will artificial intelligence ever discover new laws of physics?

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Black holes wobbling three times a second have proved Einstein right

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Einstein's gravity principle still correct, finds most precise test

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Why general relativity is known as a background independent theory

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Will we ever unite physics? Clocks in superposition could offer clues

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Hot plasma mirror may help solve Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox

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First picture of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole revealed

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released the first picture of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, and it’s just as predicted

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Most precise atomic clock shows Einstein’s general relativity is right

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We’ve seen our galaxy’s huge black hole more clearly than ever before

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A pair of pulsars in a tight embrace have proved Einstein right again

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X-rays can echo and bend around the back of supermassive black holes

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