A cataclysmic collision in space provides new clues on astronomy’s biggest stalemate
Second only to black holes, neutron stars – incredibly dense star remnants – are the densest…
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Higgs boson breakthrough was UK triumph, but British physics faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts
Those experiments seek to answer some of the biggest questions in science. These include learning how…
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A cosmic explosion with the force of a billion Suns went unseen – until we caught its echo
Some of the universe’s most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is…
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Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes
Gamwell sees echoes of Mitchell’s dark stars, for instance, in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “A…
