Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

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 ...

With singularities absent, the paper then shows that the combined vacuum energy of black holes produced in the deaths of the universe's first stars agrees with the measured quantity of dark energy in ...

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 ...

Since the first detection of gravitational waves, more and more scientists have been speculating that such primordial black holes may comprise a significant fraction, if not all, of dark matter.

Fifty years ago, physicist Stephen Hawking offered one idea for what dark matter might be: a population of black holes, which ...