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Some of the first images captured by the James Webb Space T
From colliding galaxies to supermassive black holes, we take a look at some of the strangest sights in the universe
A look at some of the thousands of astronomical objects visible in Hubble’s historic photograph
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
Astronomers love a challenge. They place their observatories on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on the coldest ice shelves, beneath the deepest oceans, in orbit around Earth and the Sun,
GLOBAL EYE
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
