Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we see around us on a cosmic level, like stars, planets, and moons, and on an ...

Welcome to the kingdom of the dark. We do not understand what dark matter is, but we know that it exists. The evidence goes all the way back to the 1930s and the efforts of pioneering astronomer ...

Australia's SABRE South dark matter experiment reveals full design, aims to confirm DAMA/LIBRA results with data from the ...

Mysterious Phenomenon at Center of Galaxy Could Reveal New Kind of Dark Matter Mar. 10, 2025 — A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark ...

But in a new study, published in Physical Review Letters, we show that both could be linked to one of the most elusive ingredients in the universe: dark matter. In particular, we propose that a ...

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, according to new research. In the extremely early universe, primordial black ...

Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo. Stars are formed when gravity within dark matter halos draws in gas, but astrophysicists don't know whether star-free dark ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery ...

We can't see dark matter, but scientists have made the largest map yet of the invisible material that helps make up the universe. Researchers used a dark energy camera and a large telescope to ...

This makes them an interesting, if exotic, candidate for dark matter, new research suggests. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes aren't entirely black. Through a complex ...