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Letter: Backyard black hole idea is exciting and frightening (2)

Published 21 April 2021

From Tim Johnson, London, UK

This article was fascinating and maybe alarming. Surely, if there is one black hole in the outer solar system there could be two? What if they collided? Would Earth bounce about like a ping-pong ball? Shouldn’t we be told? Has anyone bought the film rights?

Issue no. 3331 published 24 April 2021

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