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Gargantuan black hole may be a remnant from the dawn of the universe

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope – now simulations suggest it could be a primordial black hole, something we have never seen before

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Three supermassive black holes have been spotted merging into one

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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?

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could the whole cosmos be a black hole?

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

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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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