Primordial helium from the beginning of the solar system may be stuck inside Earth's solid core, new research suggests. The findings could have implications for a long-standing debate about how ...

Researchers have taken a pivotal step toward understanding how living cells could have originated from nonliving matter. At ...

More information: De-Chang Dai et al, Searching for small primordial black holes in planets, asteroids and here on Earth, Physics of the Dark Universe (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2024.101662.

In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

Plenty of groups have been theorizing about primordial black holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their ...

More information: De-Chang Dai et al, Searching for small primordial black holes in planets, asteroids and here on Earth, Physics of the Dark Universe (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2024.101662 ...

Imagine the formation of a black hole and you’ll probably envision a massive star running out of fuel and collapsing in on itself. Yet the chaotic conditions of the early universe may have also ...

To find black holes we usually have to look thousands of light-years away. But a new study suggests we could find evidence of them right here on Earth, as tiny tunnels they’ve carved out in ...

A cosmic void could be distorting how we see the universe expand. Sound from the Big Bang may hold the clues. According to ...

Alternatively, a faster primordial black hole might leave behind straight tunnels large enough to be visible by a microscope if passing through solid material, including material right here on Earth.

An illustration of small primordial black holes. In reality, such tiny black holes would have a difficult time forming the accretion disks that make them visible here. Photo: NASA By TOM DINKI ...