Black hole models are wrong, X-ray machine shows

Models showing what happens to matter just before it is sucked into a black hole may need to be revised after laboratory experiments using the world’s most powerful X-ray machine contradicted one of our best theories. Black holes are regions of space where the gravitational field is so intense nothi...

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