Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least ...

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be a new way to detect passing dark matter. MIT physicists ...

Physicists have long grappled with understanding how gravity works at the quantum level. Johanna Erdmenger is tackling this ...

Black holes are on a continuum of ultradense objects that form from the remnant cores of dead stars after they run out of ...

XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years ...

The first results from JAXA's XRISM X-ray telescope are out, and they reveal new features of the superheated gas around a ...

The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around ...

Black holes hold some of the universe’s greatest mysteries, with giant empty spots in space sucking in whatever enters their gravitational pull. However, the mystery is now growing as astronomers are ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...

New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an ...