If there is a black hole, it's at least 20 times farther from Earth than the furthest planet, Neptune, in a distant region of our solar system called the extended Kuiper Belt. The belt is home to ...

"An epic exploration of possibilities. What If is a Webby Award-winning science web series that takes you on a journey through hypothetical worlds and possibilities, some in distant corners of the ...

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 → ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

Recent studies have shown that our entire solar system may serve as a gigantic PBH detector, with these little black holes leaving their faint but very possibly detectable ...

Black holes are massive, mostly invisible and so powerful not even light can escape them. So what would happen if one entered ...

(via PBS Space Time) Dark matter has eluded us for many decades. Even our most advanced particle colliders and sophisticated underground detectors have come up short. But it may be that we can finally ...

New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory provides insights into a fascinating aspect of black holes which is their ability to self-sustain.

there is around one solar mass of a central supermassive black hole. In the new study, researchers statistically calculated that supermassive black holes in some of the early galaxies seen by JWST ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...