Space
Giant galaxy caught tearing apart its little neighbour
Two decades ago, astronomers caught the Milky Way shredding a dwarf galaxy. Now they've seen the same thing happening 11 million light-years away
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Physics
Can burping black holes reveal the true fabric of the universe?
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Physics
Dark matter’s true face could be unmasked by pairs of dead stars
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Humans
God vs the multiverse: The 2500-year war
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Space
Black holes have a size limit – of 50 billion suns
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Physics
Tiny dark matter stars would harbour particles that act as one
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Physics
Pathfinder blasts off to look for Einstein’s gravitational waves
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How to encrypt a message in the afterglow of the big bang
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Physics
How to encrypt a message in the afterglow of the big bang
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Spacecraft that will put Einstein to the test ready for lift-off
The LISA Pathfinder mission is the first step towards a gravitational wave observatory in space, which promises to revolutionise astronomy
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Black hole batteries could power mysterious radio bursts
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Baby photos of distant planet are first to capture formation
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Life
Journeys of a lifetime: 7 stories of how the cosmos made you
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Life
Journeys of a lifetime: How your bones began in a star’s core
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