The new findings could help explain how the early universe's "dark ages" drew to a close and how black holes rapidly grew to possess masses equivalent to millions or billions of suns so long ago.

We do not know what dark energy is but its existence allows astronomers to explain so many features of the universe. A new hypothesis suggests quite a peculiar source of this energy: black holes.

The discovery, made with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), contains several "missing link" intermediate-mass black holes. This is both the largest sample of dwarf galaxies with ...

But scientists have yet to figure out what dark matter is made of and where it comes from. Another mystery of the Milky Way is at the very core of our galaxy – a supermassive black hole ...

However, no scientists have ever been able to point toward a definitive source for the creation of that dark energy. Now, two recently published papers claim that black holes may be the source of ...