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This illustration shows material from a star being devoured by a supermassive black hole

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Supermassive black hole snacks on the same star once every few years

A black hole almost 900 million light years away consumes part of an orbiting star every time it gets too close

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How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?

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How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?

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How sounds from space are revealing otherwise hidden cosmic phenomena

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How sounds from space are revealing otherwise hidden cosmic phenomena

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Black hole

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We saw the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy in 2022

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An illustration of GRB 221009. A black hole drives powerful jets of particles traveling near the speed of light. The jets pierce through the star, emitting X-rays and gamma rays as they stream into space

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A weird gamma ray burst doesn't fit our understanding of the cosmos

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Tidal disruption

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Star ripped up by black hole is one of the brightest things ever seen

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Roger Penrose at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford.

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Roger Penrose: Communicating with future universes

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F6ND3J An artist's depiction of a black hole in interstellar space pulling in gas and dust that start to heat. Gamma ray bursts exit at

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We may finally know how blazars act as cosmic particle accelerators

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Wormhole

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How to tell the difference between a regular black hole and a wormhole

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Artist?s illustration of tidal disruption event where a supermassive black hole spaghettifies and gobbles down a star. Some of the material is not consumed by the black hole and is flung back out into space.

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A black hole ate a star and belched out the remains two years later

A distant black hole shredded a star in 2018, and released a plume of plasma travelling around 50 per cent the speed of light two years later – astronomers don’t know why it took so long

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Black holes wobbling three times a second have proved Einstein right

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Bubble of hot electrons seen hurtling around our galaxy’s black hole

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Closest black hole to Earth is just 1500 light years away

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Black hole sound: NASA makes Perseus singularity audible to humans

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