Monstrous black hole wakes up after 26-year slumber

An enormous black hole has woken up ravenously hungry, offering an exciting opportunity for astronomers

Starmus 2014: “I’m very sad that the Space Shuttle has gone into retirement,” says Brian May

Queen guitarist Brian May speaks of his sadness about the end of the Space Shuttle Program, over three years after it ended

Starmus 2014: Hawking states that “surprising” BICEP2 results always “needed to be followed up by Planck”

The Planck satellite brings BICEP2’s Big Bang discovery into further question

Starmus 2014: “I’m betting my shirt that alien life is similar to life on Earth,” says Dawkins

At the Starmus astronomy festival in Tenerife, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins tells us what we should expect alien life to look like

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