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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

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