Detail from animation of a black hole devouring a star

How to escape a black hole

26 November 2015

An international team of astrophysicists, including researchers from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, has observed a new way for gas to escape the gravitational pull of a supermassive black hole.

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Artist’s impression of Gaia14aae

Gaia satellite and amateur astronomers spot one in a billion star

17 July 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥Gaia satellite has discovered a unique binary system where one star is ‘eating’ the other, but neither star has any hydrogen, the most common element in the Universe. ̽»¨Ö±²¥system could be an important tool for understanding how binary stars might explode at the end of their lives.

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