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Are planet-killing black holes hiding inside your cat?
New research suggests that tiny primordial black holes could be hollowing out planets and passing through everyday objects, maybe even you and your cat!
'Impossible' black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope may finally have an explanation
Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe. New research may explain how they formed, thanks to primordial "seeds".
Unusual black hole light bursts puzzle astronomers: 'We are finding a lot of weird stuff'
"This is very different from anything I have seen before."
Egg-shaped galaxies may be aligned to the black holes at their hearts, astronomers find
There is a surprising link between what goes on near the black hole and the shape of the entire galaxy that surrounds it.
Supermassive black holes bent the laws of physics to grow to monstrous sizes
Scientists may have cracked one of the biggest mysteries in space science, determining that supermassive black holes bent the laws of physics to grow to their huge sizes.
Dark matter might make space-time ring like a bell around black holes — and we might be able to 'hear' it
To explain why dark matter particles haven't come up in any direct detection experiments, physicists have wondered if it may be a kind of particle known as an axion.
A black hole's secrets could hide in its dizzying light 'echoes'
Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing.
Supermassive black holes prefer to eat from wobbly plates
Researchers have discovered the first evidence that the brightest accretion disks around supermassive black holes "wobble" as their monstrous occupants drag them around.
