Lone black holes may finally break cover

I think one of the most interesting things happening in astrophysics at the minute is the rapid development of new ways to study black holes. Whether it’s the virtuoso display of the Event Horizon Tel

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

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A citizen astronomy project known as Kilonova Seekers has discovered an exploding star system in real time. Described as like a game of astronomical ‘spot the difference’, the project invites members

Our eyes paint such vivid portraits of the world around us that it’s easy to forget how much of our surroundings go unseen. Wi-Fi signals pinging this way and that, subatomic particles and radiation z

Scientists from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic explosions since the Big Bang. Extreme nuclear transients (ENTs) occur when massive s