Imagine for a moment: a tiny black hole, barely larger than an atom, passing through your body. This image, worthy of the ...

A recent study explores the effects of tiny black holes on the human body, finding that while tidal forces would cause local ...

According to the study, asteroid-mass black holes (less than a micrometer across) will cause relatively minor damage locally ...

How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which ...

In science fiction, black holes often appear as cosmic monsters, devouring everything in their path. But what if one, smaller ...

As a primordial black hole (PBH) passes through the human body, it exerts strong tidal forces, creating a tensile force on ...

In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: could you kill a man with a tiny black hole? I won't spoil the story, though I'm willing to bet most ...

Not just any black hole, but a primordial black hole. Jakub Scholtz: Primordial black hole is a remnant from the Big Bang that came from a very dense region that almost instantly collapsed into a ...

(To our knowledge, tiny black holes cannot form today.) But would these "primordial" black holes still exist, roughly 14 billion years after the big bang? Surprisingly, the answer depends on the ...

The tidal forces produced by a tiny black hole would have an interesting affect on human bodies.

What if invisible black holes were quietly passing through our solar system without us even noticing? While that might sound like a plot from a sci-fi ... Continue Reading → ...

Imagine a supervillain attacking you with his unique superpower of creating small black holes. An invisible force zips ...