A mystery wave of cosmic radiation that smashed into Earth in the eighth century may have come from two black holes that collided, a study published in a British journal on Monday says. Clues for the strange event were unearthed last year by Japanese astrophysicist Fusa Miyake, who discovered a surge in carbon-14 -- an isotope that derives from high-energy radiation -- in the rings of ancient cedar trees.
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