"If our hypothesized dark charge is true, then we believe there could be a significant population of primordial black holes, which would be consistent with other astrophysical observations, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers suspect that in the first second after the universe formed, the very first black holes also formed. These tiny though ...

Ever since humans first gazed up at the night sky, the Universe has filled us with awe and wonder. Lately, however, it's also inspired a new question: "What if everything we know is inside a black ...

At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the closest massive black hole to Earth ever seen, a cosmic titan "frozen in time." As an example of an elusive "intermediate-mass black ...

New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions ...

Astronomers suspect that in the first second after the universe formed, the very first black holes also formed. These tiny though profoundly dense objects — think of an atom-sized particle wielding ...