Astrophysics

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

The theory, which emerged in the 1970s as a way to unify the fundamental forces of nature, has profoundly shaped the landscape of particle physics

After more than a decade of effort, a global network of radio telescopes revealed the first-ever picture of an enigmatic hole in spacetime

The Event Horizon Telescope captures one of the universe’s most mysterious objects