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Higgs — at last!

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Physicists capture the long-sought Higgs particle, which explains why other particles have mass

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Black hole’s big gulp

This computer simulation gives some idea of what might happen when a star gets too close to a black hole. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHU/UCS

Astronomers say a bright flare in space shows where a black hole tore apart a star

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