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Millions of planets might form around supermassive black holes

Massive amounts of dust swirl around active nuclei at the centres of galaxies, and these discs could give rise to vast numbers of rocky planets, some even the size of stars

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The hidden pockets of the universe where the future can cause the past

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Professor Sir John Pendry FRS, Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London, who has made seminal contributions to research in metamaterials and photonics, surface science, and disordered systems and localisation. Cloaking devices, perfect lenses and the super high-speed computer chips of the future are just some of the practical applications of Sir John's theoretical research.

Physics

The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

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Shutterstock Asset ID: 2498498799 Supernova explosion in the center of the galaxy

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Mystery 'whippet' space explosion is the brightest of its kind

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Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of a neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binary merger, showing the disruption of the neutron star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University).

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A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one

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Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?

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Space

Gravitational wave signal proves Einstein was right about relativity

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A collage of analog clocks against a black background. Some are broken in half

Physics

The daring idea that time is an illusion and how we could prove it

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illustration of failed supernova

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Star appears to have vanished in a failed supernova

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Space

Distant 'little red dot' galaxies may contain baby black holes

Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has found hundreds of distant and apparently bright galaxies dubbed "little red dots", and now it seems they may each carry a baby black hole

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Supermassives to fuzzballs: Every black hole type explained

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Gargantuan black hole may be a remnant from the dawn of the universe

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Three supermassive black holes have been spotted merging into one

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Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

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