Heaviest black hole pair ever discovered

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

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 ...

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

A look at some of the thousands of astronomical objects visible in Hubble’s historic photograph

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