Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

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Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

Its massive appetite could help to explain how some tiny black holes become supermassive so quickly. Dr Scharwächter says: 'This extreme case shows that a fast-feeding mechanism above the ...

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

The light from this object has traveled all the way from a time 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Earlier supermassive black holes have been discovered – but none of them can hold a candle to this ...

Dewangan says monitoring such eruptions may help to identify a binary black hole — one small black hole orbiting a massive black hole. The merger of black holes can generate gravitational waves ...

The new system holds a central black hole in the act of consuming a small star that's spiraling in very close to the black hole, every 6.5 days -- a configuration similar to most binary systems.

Many black holes detected to date appear to be part of a pair. These binary systems comprise a black hole and a secondary ...

Most matter exiting the disk will speed straight into the mouth of the black hole. But a small fraction instead is caught in the twisting fields and slingshots outwards, producing two straight beams ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects ...