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Black holes

Loaded for Bear: Budget 3.0 faces an ‘event horizon’ that could suck SA into a black financial hole

Business Maverick

Loaded for Bear: Budget 3.0 faces an ‘event horizon’ that could suck SA into a black financial hole

By Ed Stoddard

How we captured first image of the supermassive black hole at centre of the Milky Way

Magazine

How we captured first image of the supermassive black hole at centre of the Milky Way

By Derek Ward-Thompson

South African scientists helped forge new historic black hole image

South Africa

South African scientists helped forge new historic black hole image

By Tiara Walters

Astronomers think they’ve just spotted an ‘invisible’ black hole for the first time

Magazine

Astronomers think they’ve just spotted an ‘invisible’ black hole for the first time

By Adam McMaster and Andrew Norton

Some black holes are anything but black – and we’ve found more than 75,000 of the brightest ones

Magazine

Some black holes are anything but black – and we’ve found more than 75,000 of the brightest ones

By Jessica Thorne and Sabine Bellstedt

Inside Einstein’s Mind: How to make the General Theory of Relativity relatively captivating. Generally.

Maverick Life

Inside Einstein’s Mind: How to make the General Theory of Relativity relatively captivating. Generally.

By Tony Jackman

Stephen Hawking: A brief history of his time

Maverick Life

Stephen Hawking: A brief history of his time

By Marelise Van Der Merwe