Strange Universe Like a parasite sucking the life force out of its host, an international group of scientists have determined ...

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 ...

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

XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years away. This material gradually moved inwards to a distance of around 0.001 ...

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 ...

"This one has managed to reach a size that's so big," said Eileen Meyer, who studies black holes at University of Maryland, ...

"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 ...

Black holes hold some of the universe’s greatest mysteries, with giant empty spots in space sucking in whatever enters their ...