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Astronomers say they've found evidence of an ancient and never directly observed class of object known as a primordial black hole.

Scientists Discover Black Hole Created Less Than One Second After the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that large planets can accumulate enough black matter in their cores to spawn a destructive black hole.

Scientists Say Black Holes Could Form Inside Planets, Leading to Absolute Catastrophe

By Frank Landymore

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

By Frank Landymore

An incredible object form by two colliding galaxies may be the site of a recently formed supermassive black hole.

Bizarre “Infinity Galaxy” Could Hold the Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

By Frank Landymore

Clumps of dark matter may actually be interacting with light just a teensy bit, enough to dim the light of stars it passes in front of.

Astronomers Suggest That Entire Stars Are Being Obscured by Giant “Lampshades” of Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers Astonished by Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang

Astronomers Astonished by Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

If the Big Bang actually happened inside a black hole, it could neatly explain some of the universe's biggest mysteries.

Scientists Calculate That the Entire Big Bang Must Have Taken Place Inside a Black Hole

By Frank Landymore

Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb" — an ominous-sounding concept that dates back to the late 1960s.

Scientists Say They’ve Built a “Black Hole Bomb”

By Victor Tangermann

The mysterious dark matter "bridge" found inside the Perseus cluster could reveal key details about the cluster's evolution.

Scientists Intrigued by Bridge of Dark Matter Inside Huge Galaxy Cluster

By Frank Landymore

Scientists want to build a new type of detector they liken to a "cosmic car radio," that could listen to what the dark matter is saying.

Scientists Say Dark Matter May Be Giving Off a Signal

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests our observable universe may be trapped inside a black hole after examining a James Webb Space Telescope survey.

Scientist Says He Found Evidence Our Entire Universe Is Trapped Inside a Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Recent research proposes a new form of dark matter that may actually be lighter in mass than other dark matter candidates.

Scientists Find Evidence of a New Form of Dark Matter Swirling at Center of Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers say they've discovered one of the most masssive black holes ever discovered in the Cosmic Horseshoe.

Scientists Discover Black Hole So Gigantic That You Will Quiver in Existential Terror

By Victor Tangermann

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists witnessed a brilliant light show at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists Turned the James Webb to Examine Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy and Saw Something Wild

By Noor Al-Sibai

The hole in the first-ever image of a black hole released a massive burp of gamma rays while astronomers were staring at it.

Astronomers Were Watching a Black Hole When It Suddenly Exploded With Gamma Rays

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that's gobbling up matter at a seemingly impossible rate, surpassing previous limits.

There’s Something Impossible About This Ravenous Black Hole, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Our universe may have another mirror universe on the other side of the Big Bang running backwards in time, physicist hypothesize.

Physicist Says There’s Another Universe Hiding Behind the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

New observations uncovered more supermassive black holes than previously detected, which could hold clues to how they first formed.

The Early Universe Was Absolutely Littered With Black Holes, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

New NASA data shows a supermassive black hole on a merciless killing spree, destroying one star and using its body as a new weapon.

Murderous Black Hole Goes on Rampage, Leaves Path of Wrecked Stars in Its Wake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A supermassive black hole is shooting out a jet so intense it's causing stars along its path to erupt in explosions called novas.

Scientists Say Furious Black Hole Making Nearby Stars Explode

By Frank Landymore

If true, this could resolve the information paradox posed by the existence of black holes, as first pointed out by Stephen Hawking.

Black Holes May Actually Be “Frozen Stars,” Scientists Claim

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have determined that a supermassive black hole is starving a galaxy of essential materials to make new stars.

Scientists Spot Giant Black Hole Destroying Galaxy

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least once a decade.

Scientists Suggest Tiny Black Holes Are Regularly Cruising Through Our Star System

By Victor Tangermann

A researcher from Kansas State University has revived an almost 100-year-old theory to refute that the Big Bang ever happened.

Scientist Disputes That Big Bang Actually Happened

By Victor Tangermann

Their mapping of dark matter confirms the discrepancies between observations of the universe's structures and our theoretical models of them.

Scientists Analyzing Deep Space “Forest” to Map Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Researchers suggest we should hunt for an ultralight dark matter candidate in the Earth's ionosphere, a "long shot."

The Earth May Be Swimming Through Dark Matter, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Primordial black holes neatly explain where all the dark matter in the universe is hiding — if we could find them.

Astronomers Struggle to Explain Why Ancient Black Holes Are Nowhere to Be Found

By Frank Landymore

Falling into the event horizon of a black hole may mean certain death, but it sure as hell makes for a cool view.

NASA Releases Video of What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers captured the black hole at the center of the Milky Way in polarized light and its surrounding magnetic fields for the first time.

Scientists Capture Amazing Image of Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

A controversial new paper suggests the universe is twice as old as current models suggest and that dark matter doesn't exist.

New Paper Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist at All

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have found that "little red dots" in James Webb Space Telescope images are "baby" supermassive black holes.

Scientists Surprised to Realize Red Dots in James Webb Images Are Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted an unusual "extremely red" supermassive black hole billions of light-years away.

James Webb Spots “Extremely Red” Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Does dark matter reside in a deformed mirror universe of our own, where rules are different and atoms failed to form?

Dark Matter May Be a Deformed Mirror Universe, Scientists Say

By Jon Christian

Chinese scientists have opened the deepest and largest underground lab in the world to study dark matter particles.

China Opens Huge Underground Dark Matter Lab

By Victor Tangermann

The black hole formed just 400 million years after the Big Bang, but is so massive that it should've taken far longer to reach its size.

James Webb Finds Most Ancient Black Hole Ever Discovered

By Frank Landymore

A team of astronomers has suggested that primordial black holes (PBH) are passing by the Solar System, causing planets' orbits to "wobble."

Small Black Holes Affecting Earth’s Orbit, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

In a new paper, astrophysicist Earl Bellinger wondered if black holes could be trapped inside stars, a theory inspired by "Black Hole Sun."

There May Be Small Black Holes Inside Some Stars, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Cosmologists are starting to suspect there may have been a second, transformative event like the Big bang that could explain dark matter.

Scientists Say There May Have Been a Second Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

The supermassive black hole that made headlines for being the first one to be imaged now became the first observed to be spinning.

Remember That Black Hole They Took a Picture of? It’s Spinning

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk has chimed in and has decreed that the universe is "possibly" twice as old as we think it is. Make of that what you will.

Elon Musk Says Universe May Be Twice as Old as We Think, Dark Matter Seems “Sketch”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe they've spotted three objects known as dark stars originating just hundreds of years after the Big Bang.

James Webb Appears to Have Spotted Weird Stars Powered by Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

James Webb Spots Oldest Supermassive Black Hole Ever

James Webb Spots Oldest Supermassive Black Hole Ever

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of astronomers has detected the faint hum of gravitational waves echoing throughout our universe, possibly caused by black holes.

Astronomers Detect Mysterious Ripples in Spacetime Caused by Ancient Black Holes

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists in Europe are gearing up for the much-anticipated launch of Euclid, a telescope designed to track dark matter.

Europe Is About to Launch a Dark Matter-Hunting Spacecraft

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A poor star some 173 million light years succumbed to the gaping maw of a black hole, dying in what's known as a tidal disruption event.

Grim Images Show Helpless Star Disappearing Into Black Hole

By Frank Landymore

For the first time, astronomers have captured the powerful jets spewing out of a black hole and the black hole itself in the same image.

New Image of Black Hole Shows Colossal Jets Looking Like Tentacles

By Victor Tangermann

JWST Looks Back In Time And Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole in the Universe

JWST Looks Back In Time And Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole in the Universe

By Noor Al-Sibai

By observing companion stars orbiting black holes, scientists may have gathered indirect proof that black holes accrete massive clumps of dark matter.

Black Holes May Be Engulfed In Dark Matter, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

There may be planets made up of dark matter with their own bizarre physics, a group of scientist argue in a new study: and they might know how to find them.

Physicists Say There May Be Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gaze Upon the Brutal Beauty of Four Massive Black Holes About to Crash

Gaze Upon the Brutal Beauty of Four Massive Black Holes About to Crash

By Frank Landymore

What appears to be a "rogue" supermassive black hole is leaving behind a trail of newly spawned stars in its wake as it escapes its host galaxy.

Hubble May Have Spotted a Supermassive Black Hole Breaking Free From Its Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

A strange cloud of dust and gas is slowly being sucked into the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, an extreme rendezvous of epic proportions that we've closely been following for at least 20 Earth years.

Large, Mysterious Object Getting Sucked Into Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers suggest the universe may never actually end, but instead lead to future Big Bangs, much like the one that brought our universe into being.

More Big Bangs Could Be Coming Up, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A radical series of new studies suggests that dark energy may be contained in black holes, which they found increased in mass as the universe expanded.

All the Missing Dark Energy Hiding in Black Holes, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers has proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations could be using black holes as quantum computers, Universe Today reports.

Aliens May Be Creating Black Holes to Store Quantum Information, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe an immense explosion of epic proportions may have been the result of a black hole and a star colliding.

Staggering Galactic Explosion Blamed on Black Hole Collision

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers, expecting a gamma ray burst, instead discovered an extremely distant black hole that is regularly destroy stars.

Black Hole In “Hyper-Feeding Frenzy” Chews Through Stars and Shoots Its Leftovers Towards Earth

By Frank Landymore

Physicists suggest wormholes, hypothetical tunnels linking one part of the universe to another, might be disguised as black holes.

Objects We Thought Were Black Holes May Actually Be Wormholes, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Earthlings, meet your celestial neighbor: an absolutely massive black hole, which is lying dormant in a nearby binary star system.

Scientists Discover Closest Known Black Hole to Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As detailed in a new paper published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the universe may have begun with a "Big Bounce" — and not a Big Bang.

Scientists Say Stuff Might Have Been Happening Before the Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

It's fairly common knowledge that black holes can eat stars — but until recently, it was much rarer to hear about them "burping up" those stars' remains.

Black Hole Spotted Burping Up Material Years After Eating a Star

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at Nagoya University have discovered dark matter from 12 billion years ago, making it the earliest observation of the substance to date

Scientists Just Detected the Oldest Dark Matter Ever Observed

By Frank Landymore

If staring at this image makes you feel like you're being swallowed by a black hole, you're not alone. According to a new paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, approximately 86 percent of people experience the same effect.

Argh! This Optical Illusion Makes You Feel Like You’re Falling Into a Black Hole

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers released a new image of M87*, a black hole photographed in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope -- and it doesn't match the first one.

Bad News! That Image of a Black Hole Might Be Totally Screwed Up

By Lonnie Lee Hood