Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock from around the world to study the origins of the universe in this inhospitable desert along ...

For the first time, astronomers say they may have caught dark matter in the act, not through its gravitational pull but by ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

A deep exploration of how entropy, information theory, quantum mechanics, and emergent gravity reshape our understanding of ...

Scientists may have found the first hints of primordial black holes, born in the very first seconds of the Big Bang.

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

A UC Irvine team uncovered a never-before-seen quantum phase formed when electrons and holes pair up and spin in unison, ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...

A black hole, clocking in at 100 billion tons, would do less damage than a 0.22-calibre round, said physicist Robert Scherrer.

Chad Mumm kicks us off with an admirably short intro, and bam, the first shots are hit with almost no preamble. Love that. It ...

A radical new theory suggests invisible black holes from the dawn of time may be quietly passing through Earth—and even your ...