Marcus Chown

Recent articles by Marcus Chown

A visualisation of two black holes merging © Caltech/R Hurt (IPAC)

The cracks in cosmology Why our Universe doesn't add up

The Universe's 7 biggest unsolved mysteries © Sam Chivers

The Universe’s 7 biggest mysteries (and why they’re unsolved)

What was the Big Bang? © Science Photo Library

What was before the Big Bang? Everything you need to know

Subatomic particles abstract.

Everyday science

What is the Standard Model?

Neutrinos: The vital clue to a 'theory of everything' © Getty Images

Everyday science

Neutrinos The vital clue to a 'theory of everything'

Wolfgang Pauli © Getty Images

Everyday science

Wolfgang Pauli and the discovery of the Universe’s most elusive particle

What does a black hole look like? © EHT Collaboration

Science history The incredible story of how we discovered black holes

What if the Big Bang wasn't the beginning? © Other Peter

What if the Big Bang was not the beginning?

What does a black hole look like? © EHT Collaboration

Messier 87 Why the first black hole photo was so hard to capture

The hunt for the oldest galaxies in the Universe © NASA/Hubble Space Telescope

Cosmology The hunt for the oldest galaxies in the Universe

The number that holds the Universe together is changing © Scott Balmer

The number that holds the Universe together is changing

EHT black hole photo could be boom or bust for Einstein © Getty Images

EHT black hole photo could be boom or bust for Einstein

© nasa/jhuapl/swri/steve gribben

Surprises are in store for the New Horizons’ fly by

Gravitational waves point to primordial black holes © Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images

Why 2019 is going to be a good year for gravitational waves