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Five-dimensional black hole could ‘break’ general relativity

19 Feb 2016

Researchers have successfully simulated how a ring-shaped black hole could cause general relativity to break down: assuming the universe contains at...

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Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein’s prediction

11 Feb 2016

New window on the universe is opened with the observation of gravitational waves – ripples in spacetime – caused by the collision of two black holes...

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Artist’s impression of one of the possible galaxy strangulation mechanisms: star-forming galaxies (fed by gas inflows) are accreted into a massive hot halo, which ‘strangles’ them and leads to their death.

Cause of galactic death: strangulation

13 May 2015

Astronomers have partially solved an epic whodunit: what kills galaxies so that they can no longer produce new stars?

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Orion Nebula / M42

How to explore the whole universe: watch COSMO 2013 live

04 Sep 2013

Watch speakers such as Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox this evening as the public symposium of the 17th International Conference on Particle Physics...

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All-guests-group-w-PPE

Construction starts on Centre for Astrophysics

19 Oct 2012

A groundbreaking ceremony was held yesterday to mark the start of construction of a £5 million building for the University of Cambridge, to the north...

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Professor Stephen Hawking, Andrey Kaliazin (Centre for Theoretical Cosmology), Mike Woodacre (SGI), Paul Shellard (Centre for Theoretical Cosmology) and Simon Appleby (SGI)

Hawking launches supercomputer

20 Jul 2012

The new COSMOS@DiRAC supercomputer will advance our understanding of the origin and structure of our universe.

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cosmic climate change

Astronomers find evidence of cosmic climate change

23 Dec 2010

Evidence of an intense warming period in the Universe’s early history, described as a form of “cosmic climate change”, has been found by an...

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Rees says Earth-type planets will be found within years

26 Jul 2010

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees believes that planets resembling Earth may be discovered in the next two to three years – although it may take a further...

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longitude

Longitude project to chart new waters in untold story

12 May 2010

The forgotten story of the British organisation that enabled the development of a system for measuring Longitude, only to disappear from memory after...

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Region mapped by Planck satellite

Probing the Universe: Kavli Institute for Cosmology

01 May 2010

Scientists at Cambridge’s Kavli Institute are studying how the Universe developed after the Big Bang by analysing light emitted up to 13.7 billion...

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Planck satellite

The Planck satellite: looking back to the dawn of time

01 Sep 2009

The Planck satellite has just reached its orbit, 1.5 million km from Earth, on a mission to understand the origin and evolution of our Universe.

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Science award boosts physics research at Cambridge

21 Dec 2006

The University of Cambridge is to form one third of a new £6 million research collaboration looking at quantum physics.

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