The first image of a black hole, from the galaxy Messier 87. ... It is a smoke ring framing a one-way portal to eternity. ... On Wednesday morning that dark vision became a visceral reality.

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Scientists think that when dark photons collect around black holes, they can get trapped and boosted to high energies, where they might transform into other particles (or even just normal photons).

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

The measurements from ancient and dormant galaxies show black holes growing more than expected, aligning with a phenomenon predicted in Einstein’s theory of gravity. The result potentially means ...

In recent years, black holes have transitioned from being exotic theoretical objects to well-observed phenomena in the universe. The first direct evidence came from the detection of ripples in ...

To unlock the secrets of dark matter, scientists could turn to supermassive black holes and their ability to act as natural superpowered particle colliders. That's according to new research that ...

New research suggests that dark matter decay could have helped black holes grow to monstrous supermassive sizes relatively early in the infant universe. If true, this could help explain some of ...

There’s a new theory that brings together black holes and dark energy into one mind-bending solution: research led by the University of Hawai’i at Manoa posits that dark energy could actually come ...

Black holes are singularities, meaning points that effectively have no size, but huge masses and infinite density, and which are defined by the fact that nothing, not even light, can escape once ...

Scientists studying the earliest black holes may have found an explanation for dark matter, putting Stephen Hawking’s theory on the subject back into the spotlight.