The “Golden Age” of Black Hole Physics It’s generally agreed that the so-called “Golden Age” of black hole theoretical ...

A technique called echo mapping suggests supermassive black holes, like that at the heart of the Milky Way, are surrounded by clusters of dark matter.

New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could explain dark matter, one of the biggest unsolved questions in cosmology.

Black hole discovery reshaped astrophysics by proving that some of the universe's most powerful objects cannot be seen directly but can be measured through their effects on space and time. Signals ...

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way it interacts with its surroundings is through gravity. If two colliding black holes spiral through a dense region ...

Roughly 80 percent of the mass of the universe appears to be dark matter: an invisible material that seems to interact with ...

The gravitational wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have detected a population of massive black holes whose origin is one of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. According to one hypothesis, these ...

A blip of light in the outer reaches of the Milky Way might be a bizarre black hole born at the beginning of time itself—and the long-sought solution to the mystery of dark matter. Astronomers are ...

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are hypothetical compact objects formed in the early Universe, before the epoch of nucleosynthesis, through the direct collapse of extreme density fluctuations. Unlike ...

Envision energy trajectories that curve and cross each other. Now envision energy trajectories that are straight lines and do not cross. Now see an explosion of energy at the points where the curved ...

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are hypothesised to have formed in the early Universe from the direct collapse of density fluctuations or phase-transition remnants. Unlike astrophysical black holes, ...