She made history as the first black Miss Universe Great Britain, a sparkling crown on an impressive CV that also boasts a career as a barrister and Commonwealth Games athlete. Now Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers has topped it all by becoming a government minister on the Caribbean island of Anguilla – and she’s still only 27. She joined … Read more
A stellar object that is lighter than the lightest known black hole, but heavier than the heaviest known neutron star has been discovered for the first time. The discovery was made by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory and could reshape our understanding of the biggest stars in the universe, researchers claim. The object sits in … Read more
A galaxy hunting telescope has completed its first full sweep of the hot, energetic universe, resulting in a stunning map with more than one million cosmic objects. The eROSITA X-ray Telescope has been scanning the sky for over 182 days and has discovered twice the number of known X-ray sources uncovered over the past 60 … Read more
Researchers working in Antarctica have been trying to understand the behavior of a mysterious new particle. Some suggest it’s evidence that during the Big Bang a second universe was created that mirrors our own, consisting mainly of antimatter, and in which time flows backward. The shocking revelations came from an expedition to Antarctica during which … Read more
The ‘biggest explosion since the Big Bang’ has been detected by astronomers and it comes from a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 390 million light years away. Astronomers from Curtin University in Australia used the new Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope to study the blast in the distance galactic core. The extremely powerful eruption … Read more