The Big Bang may not mark the absolute beginning of everything. A controversial cosmological model instead treats it as a ...

For decades, dark matter has been treated as the unseen framework around which galaxies take shape. Even the smallest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Possible interactions between dark matter and neutrinos may help explain a persistent mismatch in how cosmic structure evolved.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. map of dark matter Thanks to gravity, at least we're aware dark matter exists. We also know it's eerily abundant, accounting for ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have proposed a new explanation for some of the universe's most puzzling early galaxies, nicknamed "little red dots." In the study, ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net.

The Bullet Cluster is considered important evidence for the existence of dark matter. Now a research team believes it can ...

Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies suggest that dark matter might not be a particle hiding in ...

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 ...

Ask most astronomers, and they’ll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we ...