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Record gravitational wave puts Einstein’s relativity to its toughest test yet – and proves him right again

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Record gravitational wave puts Einstein’s relativity to its toughest test yet – and proves him right again

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndicate partners may earn a commission. An animation of two black holes merging into one. In a new study, scientists used the clearest gravitational wave signal ever detected to “listen” to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein’s gravity to its toughest test … Read more

Impossibly powerful ‘ghost particle’ that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and could change both particle physics and cosmology

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Impossibly powerful ‘ghost particle’ that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and could change both particle physics and cosmology

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndicate partners may earn a commission. A new paper suggests that an incredibly energetic neutrino that slammed into Earth in 2023 could have been unleashed by an exploding black hole. | Credit: Illustration by Tobias Roetsch for All About Space Magazine/Future Publishing via Getty … Read more