The planets in our Solar System all rotate on axes that roughly match the Sun's rotational axis. This agreement between…
When a young solar system gets going it's little more than a young star and a rotating disk of debris.…
Astronomers recently caught a supermassive black hole gulp down a star. It flared in exactly the same way as its…
One of the most pressing questions in astronomy concerns black holes. We know that massive stars that explode as supernovae…
Scientists with the ESO have detected a triple system with a black hole roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth - making…