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Supernova extraordinaire might actually be a black hole’s lunch
What looked like the brightest supernova ever spotted might in fact be the death gasp of a star being swallowed by a black hole
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What looked like the brightest supernova ever spotted might in fact be the death gasp of a star being swallowed by a black hole
The historic detection of gravitational waves, announced in February, left Âé¶¹´«Ã½ with an unprecedented postbag of questions from readers. We didn't have space to answer them all, but we put a selection of them to gravitational wave expert Martin Hendry of the University of Glasgow, UK, who is a member of the LIGO collaboration that made the discovery