Quest to understand ‘nothing’ wins Physics World’s 2015 Book of the Year
Amanda Gefter's Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn takes top honour
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Magnetic fields near the Milky Way’s black hole seen for the first time
Event Horizon Telescope clearly resolves dynamical features at the event horizon
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Universe’s missing mass found in the cosmic web
Long, diaphanous filaments contain vast amounts of ordinary matter
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Astronomers gaze upon the oldest stars in the galaxy
Ancient metal-poor stars finally spotted in galactic centre
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Web life: Astrobites
A blog where astronomy PhD students write bite-sized summaries of recent astronomy papers for undergraduates
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European superscope reveals its three ‘first-light’ instruments
Agreements signed for E-ELT's phase 1 instruments with the UK, France, Germany and other European states
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Between the lines
Insights on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, science fiction from the Indian astrophysicist Jayant V Narlikar and an overview of the cosmic microwave background
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Where is the cosmic rumble from merging black holes?
Silent supermassive binaries thwart attempt to detect gravitational waves
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What is the Event Horizon Telescope?
Avery Broderick describes the instrument that will provide the highest resolution images in the history of astronomy
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GRAND plans for new neutrino observatory
Vast radio array would observe universe via high-energy neutrinos
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