Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Black holes of all masses are somewhat mysterious ... PBHs would’ve clustered and formed in high-density regions, the same ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

heating gas and dust and transforming the matter into plasma. This causes accretion disks to glow brightly in regions that ...

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

Also, since they barely interact with matter, they have the uncanny ability to pass through any object without being detected ...

Theoretical physicists suggest that observing exploding primordial black holes could uncover new particles and reveal unknown ...