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Did primordial black holes born during the Big Bang swallow the universe's antimatter, allowing matter to dominate the cosmos ...

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals, more ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples ...

A view of the central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster, one of the most massive objects in the universe, shows the ...

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It may well take years to prove, but a pair of University of Miami astrophysicists could be on the verge of a cosmic ...

An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon ...

Could the vast universe in which we live actually be the interior of a black hole within a larger universe? The idea, which sounds as if it comes from the realm of science fiction, actually arises ...

A team of astronomers have studied two black holes that merged into a massive new one, confirming a 50-year-old theory that ...

The JWST has detected more active black holes than expected, casting doubt on their prevalence in the early universe.

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