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Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes

Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes

29 September 2021

Black holes born in the big bang could be the dark matter physicists have sought for decades – if they exist. Now there's an audacious plan to find the scars they would have left as they punched through the moon
Michele Bannister

The inside story on 'Oumuamua and other interstellar worlds

2 December 2019

In 2017, a mysterious asteroid from a different solar system passed near Earth. Astrophysicist Michele Bannister has the inside story on ’Oumuamua

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