Physicists agree that an awful lot went on in the first few seconds after the Big Bang, a lot of it in incomprehensibly tiny ...

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...

Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime in ...

Black holes could soon help us understand dark matter. These extreme objects, long considered light traps, are now becoming observational tools. Through finer analysis of their images, scientists hope ...

"Our results will remain in astronomy textbooks for decades to come." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have found that ...

Artist's impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole observed from Earth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud. The light of a background star located in the LMC is bent by a putative ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole so mind-bogglingly large, trying to get a grasp of how big it really is could induce an existential crisis. The latest, still-unnamed black hole is lurking ...

This so-called tidal disruption event is the best way to spot these middle-mass black holes. A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant ...

Researchers have detected two massive holes which have been ‘punched’ through a stream of stars just outside the Milky Way, and found that they were likely caused by clumps of dark matter, the ...