Gas caught plunging to oblivion in a black hole

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

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

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

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 ...

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