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Are black holes wormholes?
By Paul Sutter published
And can we use them to traverse the universe?
9 ideas about black holes that will blow your mind
By Adam Mann last updated
Some of the strangest ideas ever proposed about the weirdest cosmic objects, black holes
The 7 most terrifying things in space
By Jamie Carter published
Here are seven of the most terrifying things in space, including solar flares, black holes and supernovas.
Rogue black hole wandering Milky Way alone proves Einstein right again
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have directly measured the mass and velocity of an isolated black hole for the first time using gravitational lensing.
1st image of our galaxy's 'black hole heart' unveiled
By Ben Turner published
The enormous black hole is four million times the mass of our sun
A spiderweb of wormholes could solve a fundamental paradox first proposed by Stephen Hawking
By Paul Sutter published
A seemingly intractable black hole paradox first proposed by physicist Stephen Hawking could finally be resolved — by wormholes through space-time.
Could the secret of supermassive black holes lie in ultralight dark matter?
By Stefanie Waldek published
Though scientists know there's a supermassive black hole at the center of most galaxies, they can't explain how the gravitational giants formed.
The closest black hole to Earth is no more — in fact, it never existed
By Brandon Specktor published
Astronomers who detected the 'closest black hole to Earth' were tricked by a cosmic illusion, new study shows
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