Secrets of gravity

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

The nature of time is one of the most profound and longstanding problems in physics – one that no one can agree on. From our perspective, time seems to steadily progress forward with each tick of the

Time has occupied the greatest minds for centuries and we’re still none the wiser about its absolute nature. Although there’s nothing in physics that says time must flow in a certain direction, nor pr

Ten years ago, on 14 September 2015, a new window on the Universe was opened, giving us a novel way of studying exotic, high-energy objects such as black holes and neutron stars: the first direct dete

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

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on Christmas Day 2021, astronomers hoped it would revolutionise our understanding of the early stages of the Universe. And they were right. Almost a