3d simulations suggest that supermassive black holes eat more quickly than expected

From colliding galaxies to supermassive black holes, we take a look at some of the strangest sights in the universe

Get sucked into an astronomical mystery as we get in a spin with the universe’s heaviest objects.

A supermassive black hole has been discovered that formed when the Universe was just 3 per cent of its current age – around 500 million years after the Big Bang, or 13.3 billion years ago. Found in th

Did you know? The nearest black hole is ...

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What is normal or ‘ordinary’ matter? When astronomers talk about normal matter, we’re referring to baryons. By that, we just mean ‘the stuff of atoms’ – things like protons and neutrons. How did we fi