New theoretical research suggests primordial black holes could one day help researchers locate invisible dark matter.

Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds.

Physicists finally know whether black holes destroy the information contained in infalling matter. The problem is that the ...

New research suggests that we may be vastly underestimating the number of black holes that existed in the early universe, ...

Scientists identify faint black holes in galaxies that formed during the early days of the universe, using imagery from the ...

Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Robert Oppenheimer, Karl Schwarzschild, John Wheeler, Albert Einstein, Leonard Susskind – ...

The first moving images of a black hole could reveal swirls of plasma and collapsing stars, deepening our understanding of ...

If true, this theory could explain how all of the matter in our universe was created.

Hundreds packed Science Center Hall B to watch Kip S. Thorne, a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech and a 2017 Nobel ...

Recent observations, including those from the Hubble Space Telescope, suggest that early galaxies harbored significantly more ...

The gargantuan object is driving a "cosmic two-for-one" that could shed light on the source of a weird kind of X-ray.

Exotic stars called millisecond pulsars serve as celestial metronomes. The supermassive black hole at the center of our ...