From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

New quantum computing research reveals that black holes may not have chaotic singularities but structured quantum states, ...

What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

These objects range in size from 'stellar black holes' only a few times the mass of our sun to truly vast monsters called 'supermassive black holes' with millions or billions of stellar masses.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

A black hole of this mass would be about the size of an atomic nucleus. Physicists have speculated that, when the universe was very young and hot, copious numbers of miniature black holes may have ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new research. The study, led by scientists at Cardiff University, tests the idea ...

"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...