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Supernova extraordinaire might actually be a black hole’s lunch
What looked like the brightest supernova ever spotted might in fact be the death gasp of a star being swallowed by a black hole
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What looked like the brightest supernova ever spotted might in fact be the death gasp of a star being swallowed by a black hole
The historic detection of gravitational waves, announced in February, left New Scientist with an unprecedented postbag of questions from readers. We didn't have space to answer them all, but we put a selection of them to gravitational wave expert Martin Hendry of the University of Glasgow, UK, who is a member of the LIGO collaboration that made the discovery