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The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples could upend a major theory about how these extreme pairs form. When you ...

When stars cease to fuse hydrogen at the end of their lifetime, they collapse in on themselves, condensing into a ...

A radical new theory suggests our universe didn’t begin with the Big Bang. It bounced out of a black hole inside a much older cosmos. A group of physicists just put forward a theory that could shake ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...

Our understanding of black holes, time and the mysterious dark energy that dominates the universe could be revolutionised, as new University of Sheffield research helps unravel the mysteries of the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints from enormous ...

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 ...

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after the Big Bang. New simulations show that early, chaotic galaxies created ...