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

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

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

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

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A tiny black hole would dive right into the supermassive black hole, and any normal star would quickly be torn apart by the behemoth's overwhelming gravitational pull. Instead, only a white dwarf ...

Astronomers have seen a quiet supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy erupt jets of ultrahot gas, marking the first time a black hole ever "switched on" within human lifetimes. Observations also ...

When City of Hamilton staff agreed to buy 40 tiny homes from a Brantford, Ont., company for a new outdoor shelter site last fall, they thought they were supporting a local, Indigenous-owned ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole firing a giant energy beam directly at Earth. This cosmic giant, weighing as much as 700 million suns, is located in a galaxy from the early ...