Dark Disguise New research is rekindling an old hypothesis about the nature of black holes that could resolve a fundamental ...

Could dark matter decay have given massive clouds of hydrogen gas the time they needed to birth supermassive black holes seen ...

Three active galactic nuclei from the early universe were found in just a small patch of sky. How many more could there have ...

The jets of material that spew from black holes catalyze stellar eruptions, surprising astronomers and raising questions ...

The universe’s hidden mass may be made of black holes, which could wobble the planets of the solar system when they pass by ...

A new paper explores the idea of asteroid-sized objects that may be causing gravitational ripples in our cosmic neighborhood.

Latin America isn’t immune to the wave of repression washing over the world, with increasingly nasty consequences that its ...

Scientists say microscopic black holes could explain the elusive "dark matter" that makes up a quarter of all matter in the ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey ...

The citizen science app, available in eight languages, uses public input to identify kilonovae, neutron star mergers that ...

Astronomers have observed three types of black holes in the universe. Stellar-mass black holes formed from the collapse of a ...

A black hole formula worked out in the 1970s remains the most concrete clue physicists have about the threads of the ...