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 University 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

The 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. The system could be an important tool for understanding how binary stars might explode at the end of their lives.

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