And for anyone worrying if a black hole could be tunneling through them right now, the authors assure readers that humans are much less brittle than a piece of rock, and the black hole would be ...

The researchers estimate that the likelihood of a billion-year-old rock encountering a primordial black hole is just 0.000001 ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Primordial black holes, on the other hand, might have formed shortly after the Big Bang, when areas of dense space also collapsed inwards, before stars even existed—hence the primordial part.

According to the data, a star had come too close to a massive black hole and been ripped apart. Its stellar guts spiraled inward, heating up and glowing brightly across the electromagnetic spectrum.

For objects without a liquid core, PBHs might simply pass through and leave behind a straight tunnel, the study proposes. For example, a PBH with a mass of 10 22 grams — that’s a one with 22 zeros — ...

A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While famous for devouring anything and everything in its gravitational ...

First up is WR 124, a type of star called a Wolf-Rayet which is a potential precursor to a black hole. As these old, massive stars come to the end of their lives, they start throwing off layers of ...