Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to new physics, a study suggests. Primordial black holes (PBHs), which are ...
Black holes are the universe’s shadowy figures, with many millions of them roaming unseen in our galaxy alone. These cosmic heavyweights famously destroy anything that wanders too close ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they ...
The European Space Agency’s Gaia emission has revealed two unexpected black holes orbiting stars like our own Sun. One minor problem: we’re not exactly sure how black holes like this should form.
Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...
Scientists estimate the black holes complete an orbit every 130 days and will collide and merge in approximately 70,000 years. Watch as a gas cloud encounters two supermassive black holes in this ...