Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rather than being empty, black holes are chock full of matter that gets squeezed into a teensy space.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

As federal funding cuts impact decades of research, scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter and similarly elusive ...

An illustration of small primordial black holes. In reality, such tiny black holes would have a difficult time forming the accretion disks that make them visible here. BUFFALO, N.Y. — Imagine the ...

Astronomers have found over 5,000 exoplanets, and now scientists think these distant worlds could unlock one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. A new study suggests that Jupiter-like ...

The universe is undergoing an accelerated expansion. We call the source of this expansion dark energy – a mysterious form of energy that permeates the whole universe pushing space-time apart. We do ...