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 ...

Physicists at the world's largest atom smasher have detected a mysterious, primordial particle from the dawn of time. About 100 of the short-lived "X" particles — so named because of their unknown ...

How could the first black holes have formed immediately after the Big Bang, even before the ignition of stars? This question ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into being. As Stephen Hawking predicted, black holes don’t only draw particles in, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of a black hole accretion disk glowing with radiation. New research suggests that ...

Although our universe may seem stable, having existed for a whopping 13.7 billion years, several experiments suggest that it is at risk – walking on the edge of a very dangerous cliff. And it’s all ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A soup of ultra-hot elementary particles could be the key to understanding what the universe was ...

The elusive Higgs particle has the power to undo physics as we know it. The fact that it hasn't could have big implications about the nature of the universe. When you purchase through links on our ...

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One of the most puzzling known particles of the atom is the neutron, the uncharged building block of the nucleus. To explain its lack of electrical charge, nuclear physicists have long supposed that ...

A few billionths of a second after the Big Bang—currently the most widely accepted theory of how the universe was formed—elementary particles, including protons and neutrons, did not exist. Instead, ...