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kottke.org posts about black holes

posted May 10 @ 12:12 AM by Jason Kottke

Astronomers may have detected the formation of a black hole. “A faint visible-light flash moments after a high-energy gamma-ray burst likely heralds the merger of two dense neutron stars to create a relatively low-mass black hole.”