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Return To Infinity!

Les Reid wonders whether the universe might turn out to be infinite after all.

Scientists recently managed to capture a direct image of a black hole for the first time. M87 is a supermassive black hole fifty five million light years away which is larger than our entire Solar System. Twenty years ago, black holes seemed more science fiction than science fact. Now we have good reason to think that there is a black hole at the centre of every galaxy, including our own, the Milky Way. So, not only are they real, they’re commonplace! Now the question is – will black holes swallow up Big Bang cosmology?

Although his name is prominent in cosmology, Edwin Hubble did not invent the idea of the expanding universe.

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