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Astronomy Research Group: Wide angle search for planets

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28th January 2010

Black Hole Hunters Set New Distance Record

A team of astronomers including Dr Simon Clark have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to detected a stellar-mass black hole much further than any other previously known. With a mass about twenty times that of the Sun, this is also the second most massive ...

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