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A Surprisingly Big Black Hole Might Have Swallowed a Star From the Inside Out

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Astronomers Excited Over Prospect of Black Hole Feasting on a Neutron Star

A computer simulation shows two neutron stars, the extremely dense cores of now-dead stars, smashing into each other to form a blackhole. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (quantum)

Has LIGO Actually Proved Einstein Wrong – and Found Signs of Quantum Gravity?

Elegant but elusive. Simulation of merging black holes showing gravitational waves. Credit: NASA/ESA/wikimedia

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