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Astrophysicist

Scientists observed light from behind a black hole

"Any light that goes into that black hole doesn't come out, so we shouldn't be able to see anything that's behind the black hole. The reason we can see that is because that black hole is warping space, bending light and twisting magnetic fields around itself,"

Breaking barriers

Controversially omitted from the Nobel Prize awarded to her male colleagues in 1974, astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has donated the entirety of a recent prize to boost diversity in science.