Supermassive black holes could act as natural particle accelerators, helping humanity investigate dark matter.

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

As federal funding cuts impact decades of research, scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to ...

The findings suggest black holes could provide a cheaper, natural alternative to billion-dollar particle colliders, if we can ...

Black holes could be the answer to lighting up dark matter. However, they can't just be any black holes. Only super tiny primordial black holes will be sufficient for the job.

Scientists have strengthened the potential connection between dark energy and black holes. New research suggests that as more black holes were born in "little Big Bang reverse replays" in the 14.6 ...

The origin of dark energy has been perplexing scientists for decades. When astronomers discovered that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, they theorized that some force must be ...

That is, unless they collect around black holes. Superradiance can operate on dark photons just as well as it does on normal photons. When dark photons collect around black holes, they can get ...

A rendering of a black hole’s extreme gravitational field redirecting and distorting light. Astrophysicists speculate that these cosmic behemoths could be tied to another enigmatic entity: dark energy ...

Early in the search, renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking postulated that dark matter could be hiding in black holes — the main subject of his work — formed during the big bang.

If black holes do indeed interact with the evolving space-time around them in this way, gaining mass and energy proportionally as the universe expands, dark energy could arise entirely from the ...