26 April 2023
An image of a black hole called M87* shows never-before-seen details of matter falling into its centre and a jet shooting out of it, which has given astronomers a better understanding of the dynamics around this behemoth
11 February 2022
Our award-winning festival, New Scientist Live is back to stimulate, challenge and inspire with some of today’s biggest scientific discoveries and ideas.
28 October 2020
What happens to matter in a black hole? The question has spawned many paradoxes, and in an extract from his latest book, physics superstar Carlo Rovelli proposes an answer
4 July 2019
Cosmic inflation is a faster-than-light expansion of the universe that spawned many others. Inflation was invented to explain a couple of features of the universe that are really hard to explain without it.
26 June 2019
Why are we here? How did the universe begin? According to the Boshongo people of central Africa, before us there was only darkness, water and the great god Bumba.
25 June 2019
Roger Penrose is one of the world's most prominent theoretical physicists who in 1965 produced the mathematics that showed how stars collapse to form black holes.
24 June 2019
One of the founders of modern physics
9 April 2019
One week after LIGO switched back on, it has already detected the gravitational waves from another pair of merging black holes, marking the beginning of a new era of gravitational wave astronomy
14 January 2019
A planet-forming disc of dust and gas is orbiting a pair of binary stars at an odd angle, and a second set of binary stars circle the whole system to keep it in line
4 January 2019
The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud may be on a collision course with the Milky Way - and it could make our galaxy less strange when they smash in 2 billion years
