A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

Exceptionally powerful X-ray jets have been detected emanating from two supermassive black holes. These cosmic structures date back to a time when the Universe was still young. These discoveries, ...

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

Tiny ‘primordial’ black holes created in the Big Bang may have rapidly grown to supermassive sizes How did this ancient black hole get so big?

The secrets of black holes and dark matter could lie before the Big Bang, a new study of "bouncing" cosmology hints.

The result, backed up by the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) – thought to be the faint "afterglow" of the first light in the universe – was the Big Bang model.

From the Catholic priest who pioneered it, to how we can (almost) see it, here are 5 fascinating facts about the Big Bang.

The universe may not have begun with the Big Bang as is generally thought but from the collapse of a massive black hole, a new theory suggests.

If the Big Bang actually happened inside a black hole, it could neatly explain some of the universe's biggest mysteries.

Scientists are using secondary signatures from the cosmic microwave background to map the universe’s hidden matter.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.

Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang. The findings, published Monday, confirm what until now were theories that ...