Space
Milky Way’s central bar stirs in stars like a candy floss mixer
An oddball stream of stars orbiting the Milky Way can be explained by the chaos stirred up by a propeller-like bar 鈥� and could help us map the galaxy
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Earth
Record-breaking double star may be cannibalising itself
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Physics
A black hole’s edge will burn you up if you try to escape
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Space
Mystery supernova could be fast-spinning magnetic star
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Physics
Ancient quasars in distant galaxies caught switching on suddenly
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Space
Comets can’t explain weird ‘alien megastructure’ star after all
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Space
We’ve found the brightest ever supernova but can’t explain it
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Physics
Time might flow backwards as well as forwards from the big bang
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Physics
New rumours that gravitational waves have finally been detected
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Physics
Supermassive black holes might be hiding entire universes inside
A quirk of our leading theory of cosmic history could mean that black holes were once portals to a multitude of universes beyond our own
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Space
Giant galaxy caught tearing apart its little neighbour
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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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