Massive explosion spotted on mysterious dead star

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

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

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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

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How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades