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Black hole pairs spat out of mosh pits make gravitational waves
The pair of black holes responsible for the first ever detected gravitational wave may have been spat out of a mosh pit at the centre of a globular star cluster
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Flamingo stars turn pink when they gobble iron-rich planets
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Tadpole galaxy spawns stars after eating invisible gas cloud
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Physics
Cannibal stars explode violently 鈥� as predicted by Darwin’s son
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The diehards who survey the sky from a backyard shed
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Physics
Trio of Earth-sized planets around nearby star could reveal life
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See a cosmic spider as it entices a nearby galaxy
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Milky Way’s nearest galaxies may be new to the neighbourhood
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Billionaire pledges $100m to send spaceships to Alpha Centauri
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Our galaxy’s impossible collision could break gravity
The ballistics of galactic shrapnel show that the Milky Way has already crashed into its giant neighbour, Andromeda 鈥� but if that's right, physics is wrong
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Galactic collisions doom entire star systems to black-hole death
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Ageing Milky Way stopped making stars before it ran out of gas
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Binary stars burned off cosmic fog and made universe transparent
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Long-lost stellar siblings probe the Milky Way’s violent history
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