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Three supermassive black holes have been spotted merging into one

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a single system – a rare event that will help elucidate the physics of complex mergers

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An artwork made my layering many paper cutouts, showing an astronaut near a black hole. Within the black hole are colourful swirls, stars and specks

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Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

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Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe

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Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen

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Lumpy ‘caterpillar wormholes’ may connect entangled black holes

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Brightest black hole flare ever caused by huge star being ripped apart

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A tiny nearby galaxy is home to a shockingly enormous black hole

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A black hole fell into a star – then ate its way out again

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Is the universe really one big black hole?

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Astronomers captured an incredible view of M87’s black hole jet

The black hole at the centre of a galaxy more than 50 million light years away is spewing out a jet of extremely hot plasma – though we have studied it for a century, we are only now seeing it in great detail

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Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?

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We finally found the hot wind coming out of our black hole

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Gravitational waves finally prove Stephen Hawking's black hole theorem

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We could spot a new type of black hole thanks to a mirror-wobbling AI

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