Related: We still don't know what dark matter is, but here's what it's not Now, a team of researchers says black holes may serve as the perfect test bed for finding this kind of dark matter. They ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

Supermassive black holes typically take billions of years to form. But the James Webb Space Telescope is finding them not that long after the Big Bang -- before they should have had time to form.

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that exerts gravitational pull but emits no light, might really consist of vast concentrations of ancient black holes created at the very start of the ...

Dark matter could act as a cosmic matchmaker between dark matter and merging supermassive black holes, solving astronomy's "final parsec problem." Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

Invisible dark matter makes up some 84 percent of the matter in the universe—but nobody really knows what it is. It doesn't have atoms, electrons or protons like the stuff that makes up the ...

The matter that falls into a black hole, of any variety, will be responsible for additional growth in both mass and event horizon size for the black hole, whether it's normal matter or dark matter ...

Both the formation of supermassive black holes and the nature of dark matter “belong to the most pressing open questions in contemporary astronomy and physics,” says Tanja Rindler-Daller, ...

But perhaps black holes were also born during the Big Bang itself. A hidden population of such “primordial” black holes could conceivably constitute dark matter, a hidden thumb on the cosmic ...