A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

Did The universe really begin with a bang, a bounce? The theory that the universe is both possibly having endured a sudden ...

A black hole is more than just a region of space where nothing escapes. ... collisions so violent they could reveal the universe’s most hidden particles—possibly even dark matter.

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for the cold dark matter of the universe are primordial black holes—black ...

Astronomers have found a remarkably powerful jet shooting out from a black hole that formed just 3 billion years after the ...

Ancient supernovas may have blasted Earth with powerful radiation, causing dramatic changes in our climate, and could do so ...

As Mount Pinatubo demonstrated, the effect of cooling aerosol particles is temporary ... “There are some particles that are warming, such as black carbon particles.

Similar particles, shot out from black holes, could carry the signature of new physics—perhaps even dark matter. “The difference between a supercollider and a black hole is that black holes ...