In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: Could you kill a man with a ...

An astrophysicist from Vanderbilt University has calculated exactly what would happen if you were hit by a primordial black hole.

An astrophysicist from Vanderbilt University has calculated exactly what would happen if you were hit by a primordial black ...

The tidal forces produced by a tiny black hole would have an interesting affect on human bodies.

Could our solar system have been temporarily exposed to an enhanced flux of cosmic-rays at some point in the ancient past?

A team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside, demonstrated how new optical ...

Located approximately 27,000 light-years (one light year equals approximately nine trillion kilometres) from Earth — relatively close when it comes to galactic black holes — Sag A* has an estimated ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

What if invisible black holes were quietly passing through our solar system without us even noticing? While that might sound like a plot from a sci-fi ... Continue Reading → ...

Most massive galaxies have black holes at their cores that emit energetic particles, heating the galaxy’s gas and dust.