Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable insights for particle physics ...

Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

Abell 209 dazzles with golden galaxies, but its real story is the unseen: scorching intergalactic gas and a vast cloak of ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...