Physics
General relativity passes test at Milky Way’s central black hole
Stars orbiting the supermassive black hole have been used to test Einstein’s famous theory for the first time, with no sign found of a fifth fundamental force
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The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star
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Rings and asteroids may explain ‘alien megastructure’ star
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Strange cosmic radio burst pinned down to giant stellar nursery
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Tangoing pairs of hungry supermassive black holes grow in number
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Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought
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Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun
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Neutron stars that slow down could be eating ‘backwards’ gas
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Quickest we could visit another star is 69 years – here’s how
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The five best exoplanets in the galaxy to check for alien life
The announcement of a new habitable, “Earth-like” planet made us wonder – where should we look first?
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Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar
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Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy
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Gravitational waves slow the spin of shape-shifting neutron star
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The coldest place in the universe marks a double stellar grave
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