Intriguingly, ultralight dark matter might be able to turn into photons (light) — and it's through this process that the ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...

Evidence of Primordial Black Holes May Be Hiding in Planets, or Even Everyday Objects Here on Earth Dec. 2, 2024 — A theoretical study suggests that small black holes born in the early universe ...

The problem with the early appearance of the giant black holes is that there simply wasn't enough time for the first stars to appear, die, and then have those small black holes consume enough ...

Current thinking is that QPEs are caused by an object (that could be a star or a small black hole) interacting with this accretion disk and they have been linked to the destruction of a star.

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers off guard. This unexpected awakening, traced to a black hole at the galaxy ...

The insides of black holes, which are extremely small and extremely massive, are the ideal testing grounds for trying out such a theory. More specifically, fuzzballs and stringy supermazes have ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy ...

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark ...