When it comes to primordial black holes being dark matter suspects, their alibi may be falling apart. Tiny black holes, created seconds after the birth of the universe, may survive longer than ...

You’re buckled in, tray table up, ready for takeoff, when you glance out the window and spot something strange: a tiny hole in the glass. Cue the panic. Is the window broken? You’re not alone. A ...

Black holes keep showing up in the news. Scientists have recorded the space ripples from their violent crashes and even captured the first images of their shadowed outlines at the centers of galaxies.

LOS ANGELES — 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.

Well, there’s a “really important” reason for it. The pinprick hole is located at the bottom center of all the plane windows and like every other inch of a commercial airplane, the “bleed hole,” as it ...

A new paper explores the idea of asteroid-sized objects that may be causing gravitational ripples in our cosmic neighborhood. Reading time 2 minutes Black holes are some of the most vexing objects in ...

Scientists now think the universe may be filled with tiny “primordial” black holes, relics from the first moments after the Big Bang, drifting through Earth by the thousand each year and passing ...

In a galaxy not so far away, a star very similar to our Sun is slowly losing itself to powerful cosmic forces. The star orbits a strangely small supermassive black hole, and on every orbit, the black ...

You've probably noticed a tiny pin-sized hole sitting next to your phone's charging port. It's not for cosmetic flair or for venting steam. That tiny hole exists by design, and its role matters a lot ...

Have you noticed that most padlocks have a small hole in the bottom, and we're not talking about the keyhole. Here's why it's there! You might have already come it across it several times without ...

It’s a small cookware design feature that’s puzzled us all — okay, maybe not all of us, but some. What’s up with those little holes in glass pot lids? Why are they there? What do they do? On Dec. 25, ...