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Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope initiative have shown off the first image of the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy.

Scientists Release Image of Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA released creepy wailing noises made by a black hole in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster on Wednesday. Researchers have studied it since 2003.

Scientists Capture the Mournful Wailing of a Black Hole

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Event Horizon Telescope project, which brought us the first-ever image of a black hole back in 2019, is back for its latest announcement this month.

The Black Hole Telescope Scientists Are Hyping Something Huge

By Victor Tangermann

A physicist from the UK named Melvin Vopson is raising a startling possibility: that dark matter might be information itself.

Scientist Says That Dark Matter May Be Information Itself

By Jon Christian

Scientists claim to have solved on of the biggest paradoxes plaguing theoretical physicists for decades, the BBC reports.

Hairy Black Holes Key to Solving Paradoxes of Universe

By Victor Tangermann

We don't wanna freak you out, but there's a really good likelihood that dark matter could be in the room with you right now.

Is Dark Matter In The Room With Me Right Now? Scientists Say Yes

By Noor Al-Sibai

With so much unknown about the mysterious substance scientists call "dark matter," the possibility for discoveries and uses are endless — and could very well include a new energy source.

Scientist Says Dark Matter Could Likely Be Incredible Fuel for Spacecraft

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two scientists have teamed up to unlock the secrets of dark matter — and we asked them everything you're afraid to ask about the mysterious substance.

Inside NASA’s Bold Proposal to Probe the Mysteries of Dark Matter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists can't yet see dark matter, but they may soon be able to measure it.

NASA Proposes Sending Spacecraft to Measure Mysterious Dark Matter

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Hubble Space Telescope found a star formation in a dwarf starburst galaxy. The black hole in the center may have actually created the star formation.

Scientists Discover Black Hole That’s Creating Stars Instead of Devouring Them

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Oh my god, y'all — the supermassive black holes at the heart of galaxies like our Milky Way may have BFFs.

Astrophysicist Says That Supermassive Black Holes May Have “Friends”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have caught a black hole — or possibly a neutron star — in the act of being born.

Astronomers May Have Spotted a Black Hole Being Born

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers from the University of Texas have spotted a gigantic black hole at the heart of our galaxy's many dwarf satellite galaxies.

Scientists Discover Enormous Black Hole Right Near Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

scientists this week tossed eight stars against a black hole one million times the mass of the Sun in a simulated battle to see which intergalactic contender would win.

Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out How to Kill Stars with Black Holes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of researchers say that the Moon is peppered with craters from miniature black holes — and they may reveal some breakthrough insights on dark matter.

Scientists Say Mini-Black Holes May Have Smashed Into the Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers say they’ve found evidence that the expanding universe is causing black holes to grow with it.

Uh Oh, Turns Out the Universe Might Be Making Black Holes Even Bigger

By Tony Ho Tran

Astronomers have been detecting far more gravitational wave events than ever before, observing 35 events in a span of just four months.

Gravitational Waves

Scientists Detect “Tsunami” of Gravitational Waves

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists might have discovered a rare and (frankly) unsettling cosmic event: a black hole eating a star from the inside out and causing a supernova.

Parasite Black Hole Eats Gigantic Star from Inside Out

By Tony Ho Tran

Astronomers Find “Dancing Ghosts” Haunting Space Near Black Holes

Astronomers Find “Dancing Ghosts” Haunting Space Near Black Holes

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of scientists detected a series of bright X-ray flares coming from one of the least expected places: from behind a supermassive black hole.

In a Bizarre Twist, Astronomers Detect Light Coming From Behind Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

According to a team of researchers, the existence of an extra dimension in space-time could explain the existence of dark mater

Scientists Say Dark Matter Could Be Hiding Inside an Extra Dimension

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted evidence that a distant star has wrapped itself around a supermassive black hole, a process known as "spaghettification."

Scientist Spot Star That’s Been Stretched Out and Wrapped Around a Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found a cluster of stars trailing behind our galaxy that they think could be trapped in a blob of dark matter.

A Blob of Dark Matter Appears to Be Floating Outside Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suspect that gas giant planets are capturing dark matter particles, and they have an idea for how to look for them.

Dark Matter May Be Hiding Inside Planets, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered "The Unicorn," which is what they're calling an extremely tiny black hole closer to the Earth than any other black hole we know about.

Astronomers Discover Closest-Ever Black Hole to Earth

By Dan Robitzski

An experiment that probed the star Betelgeuse for signs of dark matter didn't turn anything up, but it will help refine future attempts.

MIT Scientists: Nearby Star Appears to Be Cranking Out Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

The European Southern Observatory published a video that shows what it would be like to leave Earth, plunge into M87, and arrive at its central black hole.

Amazing Video Zooms All the Way From Earth to First Photographed Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A new image, released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, shows the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy in polarized light.

Astronomers Release Stunning New Image of Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists dropped a spherical telescope into Lake Baikal, where they hope it will spot subatomic neutrinos zipping by as they pass through the Earth.

Scientists Dump Telescope Into the World’s Deepest Lake to Hunt for Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of finding one big black hole at the center of a cluster of 250,000 stars, a pair of astronomers found evidence of a school of smaller black holes.

Astronomers Find Five Dozen Baby Black Holes in Distant Psychotic Chaos Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that black holes made of dark matter might be lurking inside neutron stars and eating them from the inside.

Black Holes May Devour Stars From the Inside, Like Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just released a map that shows over 25,000 different supermassive black holes in a tiny portion of the night sky.

Behold This Sky Map of 25,000 Supermassive Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Using a new AI algorithm, scientists identified over 1,200 gravitational lenses, potentially helping them find and understand dark matter.

Astronomers Find Over 1,200 Dark Matter Hot Spots

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists propose that "stupendously large" black holes between the size of a solar system and an entire galaxy could be hiding throughout the universe.

New Paper Says Black Holes Could Be as Large as an Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, high-energy X-ray emissions around a group of neutron stars may be caused by axions, one of the top candidates for dark matter.

Distant Neutron Stars May Offer Clue About the Truth of Dark Matter

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers have detected a violent eruption of light emanating from a galaxy that repeats itself every 114 Earth days.

A Black Hole Bites a Chunk Out of This Star Every 114 Days

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, we could theoretically extract energy from the enormous amounts of emissions emanating from black holes.

Physicists Outline Plan to Harvest Energy From Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent study, an international group of scientists argue that dark matter doesn't exist. It's simply our limited scientific understanding of gravity.

New Study Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre theory claims that dark matter might be made of tiny primordial black holes, which themselves might contain other universes.

Scientists Claim Black Holes Are Made of Collapsed Universes

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy without its accompanying supermassive black hole — despite its enormous suspected mass.

A Supermassive Black Hole Is Missing, NASA Says

By Victor Tangermann

After a citizen scientist saw what looked like beams of darkness coming out of a black hole, scientists think it's similar to light piercing through clouds.

Hubble Glimpses Huge “Dark Rays” Streaming Out of Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Astrophysicist Janna Levin makes getting gobbled up by a black hole sound almost beautiful, up until the point that it isn't.

This Physicist’s Description of Falling Into a Black Hole is Surprisingly Poetic

By Dan Robitzski

New Theory: Dark Matter Was Created by “Boiling” Bubbles of Plasma

New Theory: Dark Matter Was Created by “Boiling” Bubbles of Plasma

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning extremely slowly compared to others.

Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole Seems to Be Chilling Out for Some Reason

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found an unusual, ancient supermassive black hole that threatens our understanding of the history of the universe.

Scientists Found an Ultra-Rare Black Hole From Almost 12 Billion Years Ago

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are preparing to use an ultra-precise atomic clock to hunt oscillations of dark matter several orders of magnitude smaller than ever before.

Ultra-Precise Atomic Clocks May Be Able to Detect Oscillations of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

The galaxy Dragonfly 44, which scientists said had a baffling 10,000-to-one ratio of dark matter to visible matter, may not be so unique after all.

Scientists: That “99.9% Dark Matter” Galaxy Is Actually Perfectly Normal

By Dan Robitzski

Astar about 215 million light-years from Earth got too close to a black hole, and got devoured in a process that scientists call "spaghettification."

Watch a Black Hole Suck Down an Entire Star Like a Spaghetti Noodle

By Jon Christian

$Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explores the implications of new research about a hypothetical type of black hole that would contain a "fractal universe."$

Researchers: Some Black Holes May Contain a “Fractal Universe”

By Jon Christian

Scientists found that black holes give off a complex series of "chirps" in the form of gravitational waves after they merge.

Black Holes “Chirp” Repeatedly When They Merge

By Dan Robitzski

Sir Roger Penrose, who just won a Nobel Prize for discovering black holes, says that our universe was neither the first to exist, nor will it be the last.

Physicist: There Were Other Universes Before the Big Bang

By Dan Robitzski

American astronomer Andrea Ghez just won this year's Nobel prize in physics for her groundbreaking work on black holes, only the fourth woman to do so.

Nobel Prize Winner on Falling Into a Black Hole: “I Would Not Want To”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found a supermassive black hole slowly feasting on galaxies trapped nearby when the universe was still under a billion years old.

Astronomers Spot Galaxies “Trapped” by Giant Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Russian scientists suspects supermassive black holes may be traversible wormholes, and they have a plan to actually find out.

Physicists: Supermassive Black Holes May Actually Be Wormholes

By Dan Robitzski

An outrageously strange paper claims, among other things, that there's a black hole at the center of the Earth. Sometthing's fishy.

Strange Research Paper Claims There’s a Black Hole at the Center of the Earth

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists have turned the first ever image of a black hole released last year into a short animation by digging through their archives.

Astrophysicists Release Landmark “Movie” of Wobbling Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, dark matter may be an even bigger mystery than we initially thought. The theoretical maps aren't lining up with observations.

Dark Matter’s Effect Is 10x What It Should Be, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that GEODEs, or imitation black holes full of dark energy, could be driving the universe's ongoing expansion.

Physicists: Fake Black Holes Could Be Pulling the Universe Apart

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have spotted what they claim to be the most massive collision of two black holes ever, creating a black hole of about 150 solar masses.

Astronomers Claim to Have Spotted the Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists figured out how new exoplanets could form around a black hole. They've named the theoretical worlds "blanets."

Astronomers Say That Planets Orbiting Black Holes Are Called “Blanets”

By Dan Robitzski

This Galaxy Cluster Is Spewing a Surplus of Stars Because of a Lazy Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Studying the rings of photons swirling around the black hole Pōwehi can help scientists understand the history of the universe.

We May Be Able to Extract “Movies” of the Universe From Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a working model for a bizarre state of matter called "strange metals," and discovered that they behave similar to black holes.

Cornell Scientists Say “Strange Metals” Are Similar to Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

This Black Hole Just Glitched

By Dan Robitzski