The galaxies that shouldn't exist

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

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

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,

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

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