Dark Matter May Have Jump-Started Universe’s First Giant Black Holes
New research by astronomers from the University of California, Riverside, Sam Houston State University and the University of…
Scientists Develop New Way To Track Particles in 3D
Illustration of the first prototype of a new monolithic detector system capable of performing ultrafast, 3D and high-resolution…
Gravitational waves as dark matter seeds
Dark matter’s origin is still a puzzle. A new study by Professor Joachim Kopp from Johannes Gutenberg University…
Physicist Proposes Dark Matter Is Made of Black Holes That Survived Dead Universes
Here’s a fun dark matter solution. The invisible and as yet hypothetical substance could be made of “relic”…
What happens if you’re hit by a primordial black hole?
Back in the early 2000s I gave a public talk called “Seven Ways a Black Hole Can Kill…
ATLAS maps the rare four-way intersections of the weak force
Despite its resounding success at describing high-energy phenomena, the Standard Model of particle physics provides no explanation for…
Black Holes from Before Big Bang Could Still Exist Today as ‘Cosmic Fossils’
New research by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga from the University of Portsmouth and the Institute of Space Sciences in…
Dark matter could be key to supermassive black hole mystery
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Undergraduate students built a cavity detector to search for axion dark matter
Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere, threaded through the Milky Way and outnumbering ordinary matter by a…
Mysterious ‘Red Dot’ Galaxies Could Have ‘Relic’ Black Holes Predating the Big Bang
What was going on before the Big Bang? (Anything interesting?) Well, one astrophysicist now proposes that the mysterious…
Scientists Claim Universe Has Seven Hidden Dimensions That Solve Black Holes’ Biggest Mystery
Black holes might not erase information after all—they could shrink into microscopic remnants that preserve every bit of…
Not Even the Largest Cosmic Objects Can Escape Newton and Einstein, Study Finds
Gravity is so weird that it essentially forces cosmologists into subscribing to one of two equally radical conclusions:…