Dark matter could be made of black holes

From colliding galaxies to supermassive black holes, we take a look at some of the strangest sights in the universe

Get sucked into an astronomical mystery as we get in a spin with the universe’s heaviest objects.

What is normal or ‘ordinary’ matter? When astronomers talk about normal matter, we’re referring to baryons. By that, we just mean ‘the stuff of atoms’ – things like protons and neutrons. How did we fi

A supermassive black hole has been discovered that formed when the Universe was just 3 per cent of its current age – around 500 million years after the Big Bang, or 13.3 billion years ago. Found in th

Did you know? The nearest black hole is ...

From strange lights in the sky to rocks that spontaneously glide across the ground, the mysteries scientists are trying to finally crack