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

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system — at a ...

Now, just to stir things up, enticing hints have come to the fore that tiny black holes may exist, and if so, they may hold the key to testing whether the universe has more to offer than the three ...

Tiny black holes could be hollowing out planets and zipping through our bodies An artist's illustration of primordial black holes. Another theoretical proposal about primordial black holes also ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

These PBHs could have a very wide mass range, from microscopic black holes with mass of order 1g to supermassive black holes with mass of order 100,000 solar mass. We have strong astrophysical ...

Black holes are regions in space where an enormous amount of mass is packed into a tiny volume. This creates a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. They are created when giant ...