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Impression of a black hole merger

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

16 September 2019

Astronomers have looked at the way a black hole 'rings' like a bell to test a prediction of Einstein’s general relativity. Turns out Einstein is still right
There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy

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

11 September 2019

There are strange bubbles of particles looming above and below the Milky Way, and they may have been blasted out by our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

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