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Dark matter

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This physicist is hunting for the biggest black hole in the universe

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously large black holes” might be used by alien civilisations, and what makes them such an intriguing possibility

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A portrait of Mark Thomson - a middle-aged man in glasses, smiling - with a background collage. The collage contains particle sprays, the LHC, and road signs from the CERN campus

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CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality

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300-year-old experiment could become world’s best dark matter detector

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CERN upgrade: Inside the world’s largest scientific experiment

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Inside the best dark matter detector ever built

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Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?

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Illustration depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole and get torn apart by the gravity of the latter. The debris forms a fan-shaped pattern around the black hole before eventually falling in.

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A new ‘brief history’ of the universe paints a wide picture

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A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system

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Dark Matter distribution

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The best map of dark matter has revealed never-before-seen structures

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The first quantum fluctuations set into motion a huge cosmic mystery

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there was nobody around to hear them anyway. But Jim Baggott says from the first moments, the universe was singing

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Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe

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Why dark matter is still one of the biggest open problems in science

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We might have just seen the first hints of dark matter

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