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Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Brian Cox has responded after an astrophysicist claimed there could be an 'alien spaceship' heading for the solar system. An ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

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One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...