Physicists have not yet watched a black hole literally blow itself apart, but they are closing in on the conditions where such an event might finally be seen. At the same time, telescopes are catching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 220 PeV neutrino may have come from an exploding primordial black hole with a hidden “dark charge,” researchers report. (CREDIT: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of an ...

In early 2023, a neutrino detector buried in the Mediterranean Sea recorded something extraordinary: a single particle carrying more energy than anything ever detected from space. Now, physicists at ...

"If our hypothesized dark charge is true, then we believe there could be a significant population of primordial black holes, which would be consistent with other astrophysical observations, and ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

The highest energy neutrino ever detected from space may finally have an origin story. Mathematical analyses suggest that the ghost particle could’ve come from a theoretical object known as a ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

Rochester Institute of Technology was represented at a symposium celebrating 50 years of relativistic astrophysics and research exploring quasars, black holes, exploding stars and colliding galaxies ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

A neutrino slammed into Earth in 2023 with so much energy that it looked almost unreal. The particle carried about 220 peta–electron volts, or PeV, making it the most energetic neutrino ever reported.