Have Black Hole hunters found the first proof of the limits of space and time?
If a 48-year-old researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues succeed, they will have captured images that will be in textbooks forever, as definitive evidence of Einstein's weirdest prediction: that space-time could curl up like a magician's cloak around massive objects and vanish them from the universe. In short, that black holes - objects so dense that not even light can escape their maws - are real.
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