Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

The universe has already formed most of its stars and may fade into darkness, but leftover matter could one day trigger a new cosmic explosion.

Astronomers spot a red supergiant star hidden in dust just before it exploded, solving a long-standing mystery about missing ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an invisible force called dark energy. But new data suggest that this is ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants lurking at galaxy cores. The next frontier is stranger: tiny black holes from ...

Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have made a bold prediction: there is a more than 90% probability that our telescopes could witness a black hole explode within the next 10 years.

This artist's concept takes a fanciful approach to imagining small primordial black holes. In reality, such tiny black holes would have a difficult time forming the accretion disks that make them ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

"It would completely revolutionize physics and help us rewrite the history of the universe." New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or ...