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Black holes, the key to understanding the universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw ; read by Brian Cox

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Black holes, the key to understanding the universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw ; read by Brian Cox

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eng

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Main title

Black holes

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Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw ; read by Brian Cox

Sub title

the key to understanding the universe

Summary

At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes. Today, across the universe, mature black holes are creating chaos. The Swift satellite has picked up evidence of a gruesome death caused by one of these dark powers. High energy X-ray flares shooting out from deep within the Draco constellation are thought to be the dying cries of a white dwarf star being ripped apart by the intense tides of a supermassive black hole. They have the power to wipe out any of the universe's other inhabitants, but no one has ever seen a black hole itself die. But 1.8 billion light years away, the LIGO instruments have recently detected something that could be the closest a black hole gets to death. And now scientists think there could be evidence of two black holes connecting to form a wormhole - a link through space and time

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adult

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