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A mysterious object dubbed Phoebe may be a primordial black hole from the early universe, detected only because it briefly magnified the light of a distant star. On the night of 18 December 2019, a star in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, briefly got brighter. Not dramatically nor explosively, just a smooth, symmetrical [...]