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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress. Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines ...

In the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A, which is 4 million times the ...