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Watch: Very Large Telescope uses giant lasers in hunt for black holes

On a mountaintop in Chile sits the world’s most powerful optical telescope, searching for the edge of black holes, and using huge lasers to guide its gaze

3 January 2019

Video credit: Enrico Sacchetti and Riccardo Poggi

 

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