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

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Astronomers have observed three types of black holes in the universe. Stellar-mass black holes formed from the collapse of a ...

Scientists say microscopic black holes could explain the elusive "dark matter" that makes up a quarter of all matter in the ...

With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led by scientists in the Department of ...

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

Physicists are still hot on the trail of a substance that could change everything: dark matter in the form of primordial ...

"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 ...

The physicist Roger Penrose suggested that, if an object fell into a rotating black hole in such a way that it split – with ...

They found more black holes in the early universe than previously reported. Hubble re-photographed the survey region for the ...

With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has found more black holes in the early universe than has previously been reported. The new result can help ...

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