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It's not the closest black hole to Earth, but astronomers discovered the most massive stellar mass black hole ever seen, just 2,000 light-years from here.

In 1783 an English rector named John Michell wrote to the physicist Henry Cavendish of his belief in the possibility of “dark stars,” entities so dense and with such a strong gravitational pull that they could prevent light from escaping them and render them invisible. The Royal Society published his theory the following year, but it would be nearly two hundred years before

Over the years the Pirates have had a good number of cherished volunteers, with Arthur Uren certainly being one of them.

Sometimes, the good times we see today have their roots in years gone by. That's why even though the Nextbase iQ smart dash camera bagged so many aw...

From an artful Kate Bush reissue to a Kubrick-esque turntable and a monkey puzzle worth solving, there’s much to covet in this gift guide

Binary stars are two stars that orbit a mutual center of gravity. It is the most common type of multistar system.

If we put blind faith in AI, do we risk losing the skills and art of thought experiment, which help humans uncover some of science’s greatest findings? AtkinsRéalis Technical Fellow for Mathematical Modelling, Professor Nira Chamberlain, discusses the need for scientific rigour.

The Pleiades open star cluster M45 - a complete guide including facts about the cluster, Greek mythology and how to find it in the sky.

A stellar-mass black hole would quickly tear you apart. But a person encountering a supermassive black hole could survive for hours.

It took 200 years to find black holes, but now we know they must be ubiquitous.