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New windows on the Universe

Find out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.
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Black holes exist!

Finally we can be sure — black holes, those gravitational monsters that gobble up everything that gets too close to them, do exist.
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Spacetime does ripple

Physicists have finally detected the gravitational waves they have been chasing for nearly 100 years.
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Mysterious black holes

It's impossible not to be fascinated by black holes. Find out all you'd like to know about them with these articles, videos and podcasts.