Astrophysics

Astrophysicists now have enough black-hole mergers to map their frequency over the cosmos’s history

Physicists describe a way to merge quantum theory with Einstein’s special theory of relativity—and even a method to test it experimentally

Half the award goes to Roger Penrose, with the rest split between Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, for work revealing the “darkest secrets of the universe”

Pictures created from old observations show the void’s stormy evolution over the past decade

A much smaller and more reproducible version of LIGO could transform gravitational-wave astronomy

Space observations are poised to reveal more about the centre of one of the Universe’s most enigmatic objects

New evidence from neutrinos points to one of several theories about why the cosmos is made of matter and not antimatter

An unprecedented signal from unevenly sized objects gives astronomers rare insight into how black holes spin

A flare predicted for this spring could confirm the object is indeed two monstrous black holes coming together

Gravitational waves attributed to the collision of two neutron stars could have been produced by something much stranger

Anomalous motions of stars orbiting our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole might reveal the existence of long-hypothesized tunnels through spacetime

First major result from South Africa’s pioneering MeerKAT radio telescope reveals remnants of energetic explosions at the galaxy’s center