After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Stephen Hawking was the most recognisable scientist of modern times. His life fascinated people for decades, culminating in an Oscar-winning portrayal of him in the film 'The Theory of Everything'.

Even if you weren’t a science fan, or didn’t keep an eye on breakthrough developments in physics, you have heard – at some point in your life – of Stephen Hawking. Many knew of his cosmic ...

One Vanderbilt University researcher thinks time travel might not just be for the movies. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons). Time ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making ...

Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi Correspondent An artist’s concept of a white dwarf ...

The jets extending from these blazars can extend millions of light-years in length. Black holes are among the most mysterious cosmic objects, much studied but not fully understood. In pursuit of ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a white dwarf - a ...