A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom, but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid.

indirect and comes from the collective signal of many distant binaries that effectively create background noise. The proposed ...

A new study suggests that a microscopic black hole might pass through our solar system once every decade or so.

The black hole, if confirmed, is in the star cluster Omega Centauri, about 17,700 light-years away, and it could hold lessons about how such structures are formed Will Sullivan The new ...

What do black holes look and sound like? How do they form? And what happens when a person falls into one? The answers to most any black hole question. By Andrew Paul By Andrew Paul By Andrew Paul ...

Many sci-fi or space wallpapers tend to overdo it when trying to convey mystery or fear associated with deep space. But 4K SCI-FI Black Hole by Xecutioner holds back just enough while depicting a ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...

What is causing these massive, mysterious explosions in space? This black hole was formed when the universe was a toddler This black hole was formed when the universe was a toddler The first ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they're streaming through the universe, doing their own thing," said researcher Sarah Geller.

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed. But their days of stealth may be numbered. Two teams of researchers propose methods to search ...