Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered ...

A new study has revealed an ultramassive black hole 5 billion light-years from Earth, changing the perspective on its formation.

Dark matter could gather at the heart of Jupiter-sized worlds, eventually creating a black hole that eats its way out of its ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it ...

Scientists’ model indicates that dark matter inside gas giants could collapse into black holes detectable by observation.

Researchers suggest gas giants might gather dark matter until their cores collapse into planet-sized black holes.

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, ...

More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore planetary evolution and ...

A physical model based on black holes turning matter into dark energy offers a cure to hiccups in our understanding of the ...

An international research team has reported remarkable findings from an XRISM observation of the black hole X-ray binary 4U ...

Using XRISM, JAXA’s new high-precision X-ray spectroscopic satellite, researchers observed a stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way and detected highly ionized iron absorption lines — clear ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant confirmed black hole, hidden inside a rare galaxy known as a “Little Red Dot.” Its enormous size and early existence challenge current theories about how ...