The most exciting yet controversial possibility traces back to a theory proposed by British physicist Stephen Hawking in 1971: that black holes originated from the primordial soup of the Big Bang. If ...

Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes thought to have formed moments after the Big Bang. Because they ...

The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends. Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists?

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the ...

JWST and Hubble uncover JWST’s Quintet, a rare five-galaxy merger from the early universe, forming stars at a rapid rate.

EVE Frontier' developers Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson talk galaxy merger models, black holes, and the thin ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

Typically, the temperature fluctuations of cosmic microwave background radiation are about 18 microkelvin (0.000018K), but ...

Astronomers have discovered the most monstrous supermassive black hole ever. At 36 billion times more mass than our sun, it’s ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at ...