A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Stellar black holes are born from the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lives, weighing from 3 to 50 times the mass of the Sun. When a star exhausts its fuel, it explodes in a ...

Astronomy has a way of surprising you. When you believe the universe has yielded its biggest secrets, distant giants and ...

A high-energy neutrino may have come from a black hole explosion, hinting at Hawking radiation and dark matter clues.

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be ...

We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." ...

Physicists predict a 90 percent chance of witnessing a primordial black hole explosion this decade, testing Hawking’s most ...

The last gasp of a primordial black hole may be the source of the highest-energy "ghost particle" detected to date, a new MIT ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered radiation being pumped out from the core of a quasar — within which a ...