Two U.S. physicists have suggested that the nine concentric rings surrounding the galaxy LEDA 1313424, also known as the ...
A technique called echo mapping suggests supermassive black holes, like that at the heart of the Milky Way, are surrounded by ...
"Almost every galaxy in the universe is dominated by dark matter. But DF2, DF4, and now DF9 appear to be extraordinary ...
A new theory suggests the universe is constantly recording its own history in the fabric of spacetime. If correct, this ...
The Bullet Cluster has so far been considered evidence of the existence of dark matter. An international team of researchers has now analyzed new data and current images from the James Webb Space ...
Scientists suggest dark matter may collide with itself, creating dense cores that could help solve three persistent mysteries ...
After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a ...
A new kind of dark matter could help explain some of the universe’s mysteries, a new study suggests. The study proposes that there are dense clumps of “self-interacting dark matter”, or SIDM, each ...
Roughly 80 percent of the mass of the universe appears to be dark matter: an invisible material that seems to interact with ...
A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main types of black hole; stellar mass and supermassive black holes, and they ...
Dark centre? A simulated version of the Milky Way galaxy. (Courtesy: AIP/ A. Khalatyan) Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation ...