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What’s it like to discover a black hole
Professor Thaisa Storchi Bergmann discovered a black hole in a galaxy 20 million light years away by picking up signals of a star falling into a black hole. This is predicted to happen only once every 10,000 years so she tells Tom Service how she felt to observe this serendipitous event.
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