Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can ...

What are black holes and why are they so fascinating to scientists and all of us? Here's what to know about the strange phenomenon and why it matters.

The deepest mysteries of the universe often begin with the biggest questions. Few are more puzzling than the birth of ...

To destroy enough matter to explain the Hubble tension, black holes would have to merge at an unrealistic rate.

This could explain why MACHO hunters of the ’90s never saw enough objects to account for dark matter: They were only looking for gravitational lenses created by the smaller types of black holes.

Scientists’ model indicates that dark matter inside gas giants could collapse into black holes detectable by observation.

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 ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest, most distant black hole yet – and it's surprisingly monstrous for its time.

Physicists explain the controversial theory that dark energy comes from supermassive black holes—and what it means for Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

The existence of primordial black holes in the earliest universe could explain dark matter as well as the sizes of black holes scientists can see today, a new study suggests.

What is a black hole, for those of us not versed in astronomy and physics? This question was originally answered on Quora by Martin Silvertant.

If black holes are actually droplets of dark energy that convert stellar matter into this mysterious and dominant force, many ...