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Black Holes – a force for good?

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Supermassive black holes which project their power across entire galaxies of stars.

The mysterious vortexes at the centre of things. With astronomer Caleb Scharf, novelist C K Stead, and investigative spy turned author Chris Morgan Jones.

What do we know about the huge black vortexes in space? And what’s behind the information black holes at the heart of the business and financial worlds? With an American astrobiologist who argues black holes might be the creative forces that made life possible; celebrated New Zealand author C K Stead; and a British ex-spy turned novelist on tracking down the trillions that disappear into the economic black holes of tax evasion. Illustration by Emily Kasriel

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