For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

Black Goo, otherwise known as Chemical A0-3959X.91-1, acts as a biological mutagen in the Alien franchise. It was first introduced in 2012's Prometheus ...

Could dark matter decay have given massive clouds of hydrogen gas the time they needed to birth supermassive black holes seen by the James Webb Space Telescope?

If primordial black holes are responsible for dark matter, one probably zips through the solar system about every 10 years, according to a recent study in Physical Review D.

In addition to explaining the existence of very early supermassive black holes, the finding lends support for the existence of a kind of dark matter capable of decaying into particles such as photons.

A decades-long survey of a nearby galaxy has detected signals consistent with ancient black holes that could explain dark matter — but the objects would have to be at least ten times more ...

The slime-mold map created a cleaner filament structure than any human-designed algorithm they had tried; it was also sensitive to smaller features and traced dark matter more easily.

Dark matter could act as a cosmic matchmaker between dark matter and merging supermassive black holes, solving astronomy's "final parsec problem." ...

Researchers propose that dark matter particles could interact with Earth's ionosphere. This theory may lead to the first observable signs of dark matter.

Scientists studying the earliest black holes may have found an explanation for dark matter, putting Stephen Hawking’s theory on the subject back into the spotlight.