A February 2023 study by Farrah et al. proposes a connection between supermassive black holes and dark energy, suggesting ...

In 1974, Stephen Hawking made a prediction that transformed our understanding of black holes. Black holes, he showed, are not ...

Dark matter is one of the oldest open problems in physics. It makes up most of the matter in the universe and shapes how ...

The team, which included Chandrachur Chakraborty and Sudip Bhattacharyya, proposed that neutron stars and white dwarfs can capture ultraheavy dark matter particles, which accumulate at their cores and ...

Dark matter is everywhere in the universe, yet no one knows what it is made of. Astronomers cannot see it directly because it ...

Wandering black holes may reveal how galaxies formed and how massive giants began. Discover Yale's research into their hidden ...

Rogue black holes, drifting through the cosmos, may carry with them the rich histories of their original galaxies, acting as ...

New research suggests that black holes far from galaxy centers could preserve clues about their galaxies’ past.

A new framework shows how hidden black hole “hair” could leave separate fingerprints in the frequency and fading of gravitational waves.

Powerful jets from supermassive black holes can disturb star-forming gas far beyond a galaxy’s visible edge, leaving a glowing trail hundreds of thousands of light-years long. By keeping this gas hot ...

Where can we find black holes that have no bright companion stars nearby and are not actively sucking in matter? Instead of ...