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The final dance of unequal black hole partners

Color map of curves on the horizon of large black holes generated by nearby merged small black holes. Credit: Nicole Rosato Solving common relativity equations is not an easy task to collide with black holes. Physicists began using supercomputers back in the 1960s to solve such a difficult problem. In …

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Seeing the dark matter in the new light

The artist’s impression of a galaxy surrounded by gravitational distortions due to a dark object. Galaxies live in large concentrations of invisible dark matter (colored purple in this image), although the effects of dark matter can be seen by observing background galaxies. Credit: Swinburne Astronomy Productions – James Josephides A …

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