“We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." reading time 2 minutes It’s been a fantastic week for Stephen Hawking’s black hole ...

“This is the way the world ends,” said T. S. Elliot in his famous poem, “Not with a bang but a whimper.” These days, scientists consider the heat-death of the universe to be the whimper, but a new ...

How did we get here? Where are we going? And how long will it take? These questions are as old as humanity itself, and, if they’ve already been asked by other species elsewhere in the Universe, ...

Light coming from an explosion in the early universe has illuminated a black hole that astronomers think could expand their understanding of how the celestial objects form. Three billion years ago, a ...

Each of the four yellow dots is a separate image of Supernova Refsdal, which lies behind the bright blob of a galaxy cluster in the centre of the picture. Credit: NASA / ESA / P Kelly Each of the four ...