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Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What’s eating the first starlight?

9 May 2018

A shoestring experiment in the Australian outback has seen the signal of the very first stars – and a weird effect astronomers are struggling to explain

So long, suckers: Where have all the black holes gone?

17 January 2018

The universe is well-stocked with black holes large and small, but none in medium. Strange dwarf galaxies might hold the answer

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Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What’s eating the first starlight?

So long, suckers: Where have all the black holes gone?

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