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LIGO discovers new gravitational wave – and new era of astronomy

The detector's latest discovery means we are now firmly in a new era of astronomy – it matches up convincingly with what we already know about black holes

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M80 - a globular star cluster in the Milky Way

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Black hole pairs spat out of mosh pits make gravitational waves

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Graph showing the gravitational wave signal from LIGO

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Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

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Was gravitational wave signal from a gravastar, not black holes?

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Artwork of a torus of dust around a black hole

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Dusty doughnut around massive black hole spied for first time

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The HAWC observatory near the Sierra Nevada volcano in Mexico

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Water telescope’s first sky map shows flickering black holes

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Red-tinted mirror suspended along with other objects

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Gravitational wave hunters gear up to detect extreme black holes

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Physics adventures down the superfluid supersonic black hole

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LIGO could catch dark matter made of black holes

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How we'll catch a huge black hole on camera

We've never seen a black hole because they're so... black. Now there's a plan to picture the monster at our galaxy’s heart – with a telescope the size of Earth

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Galactic collisions doom entire star systems to black-hole death

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LIGO's black holes may have lived and died inside a huge star

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I was one of the first to know gravitational waves are real

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Exclusive: Einstein reacts to discovery of gravitational waves

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