While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

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

Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that.

It is called a black hole, because it acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. According to the theory of ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

A groundbreaking study,published in March 2025 on the preprint server arXiv, reveals that ultralight dark matter might have ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it ...

Webb detected rare neon gas in M83. This may signal a hidden black hole, challenging the idea that the galaxy has only ...

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...