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Artist’s rendering of a black hole emitting a jet of hot gas known as plasma. The black hole appears as a luminous spiral-shaped disc with a black sphere at the centre.

Researchers generate black hole ‘plasma fireballs’ on Earth

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Artistic image showing matter being dragged from a star to form a spiral shaped rotating mass around a black hole.

First proof that “plunging regions” exist around black holes in space

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Spiral galaxy 1433. The spiral arms are composed of many filaments in shades of orange. Thin dust lanes connect from the core, through the bar to the spiral arms. The galaxy’s arms begin at the end of the bar and appear to rotate counterclockwise.

Stunning spiral galaxies seen in new James Webb Space Telescope images

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The Radcliffe Camera, part of the University of Oxford. It is a circular building with columns and a dome. Credit: Cybjorg, Getty Images.

Oxford researchers honoured in 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

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The Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal. It is round, shiny and golden and has the outline of a man’s head viewed from the side.

Professor Mike Kendall wins Royal Astronomical Society’s Gold Medal

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The planet Uranus, seen as a greenish-blue sphere, is suspended in outer space against an illuminated line of stars to represent the Milky Way Galaxy.

New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like

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An extremely bright explosion in outer space radiates white-hot light in all directions. A spiral galaxy is visible to the side.

Extraordinary new space phenomenon mystifies scientists

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A radio telescope pointing upwards is silhouetted against the Milky Way, seen as a vast array of stars in a twilight sky.

University of Oxford partners with Breakthrough Prize Foundation in search for life beyond Earth

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A sunrise as seen from Mars. The red surface of the planet is illuminated by the disc of the sun appearing on the horizon. The background is black outer space with stars.

New study reveals source of largest ever Mars quake

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A spacecraft shaped like a box with two arms in orbit above the Moon's surface.

Oxford University-built instrument ready to map water on the Moon

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