The giant black hole is the oldest one found so far, and was likely formed more than 13 billion years ago, researchers say.

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the ...

How can the tiniest particles and the vast structure of the universe be explained using the same kind of mathematics? This puzzle is the focus of recent research by mathematicians Claudia Fevola ...

Our universe may have been born in a gravitational crunch that formed a very massive black hole—followed by a bounce inside it. The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a ...

Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event ...

A University of Queensland researcher has developed a new mathematical model to explain the evolution of the universe which, ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

The black hole universe also offers a new perspective on our place in the cosmos. In this framework, our entire observable universe lies inside the interior of a black hole formed in some larger ...

We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it does? To understand our place in the cosmos, we look to what has gone before.

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if ...