Astronomers are closer to solving the mystery of how supermassive black holes feed themselves thanks to new images from the ...

Hubble first saw a strange, perfectly straight streak of young stars stretching across deep space. Follow-up observations ...

This strange phenomenon first came to light when astronomers noticed a recurring problem in the telescope’s deep space images ...

Here is what you will learn when you read this story: Little red dots (LRDs) observed by the James Webb Space Telescope were initially thought to be galaxies, but something was amiss. Researchers who ...

A colossal “cosmic volcano” has erupted in deep space, as a supermassive black hole in galaxy J1007+3540 roars back to life after nearly 100 million years of silence. Astronomers captured stunning ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions. Scientists tracked the complete cosmic collision, confirming that black ...

To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in the sky. But no one knows whether the ...

Abyssal whirlpools lurking somewhere in deep space, swallowing light and guarding the mysteries of the universe. That is what most of us imagine when we think of black holes. We would be surprised to ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the ...