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

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would ...

Most popular science books start the universe with a single, explosive Big Bang. A new study argues something quieter but no ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Some scientists also theorize that conglomerations of these tiny black holes could account for dark matter, the most mysterious "stuff" in the universe. Others, however, argue that primordial ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...