If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, as some researchers suspect, then at least one may fly through the solar system per decade, generating tiny ...

A new study of the Gobi Wall in the Gobi highland desert of Mongolia reveals a multifunctional role beyond defense; data from ...

Black holes are massive, mostly invisible and so powerful not even light can escape them. So what would happen if one entered our solar system? It depends on a lot of factors, including the size ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. A tiny black hole may pass through our solar system once every ten or so years, researchers have suggested, and this could be ...

Created just a split second after the Big Bang, these hypothetical black holes would whip quietly through the solar system roughly once every few years, traveling over a hundred times faster than ...

"Black holes are the ultimate cosmic fossils," Jani said. "The masses of black holes reported in this new analysis have remained highly speculative in astronomy. This new population of black holes ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discusses the hypothetical use of highly energetic events as a way to produce "gravitational-wave ...

Are black holes a real threat to Earth and humanity? These cosmic giants are ready to consume everything in its way, and not ...

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. If ...

NTNU researchers may have found the answer to one of the big, unanswered questions in physics. The universe is full of ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...