For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by ...

A galaxy made of 99.94% to 99.98% dark matter immediately challenges and updates models for how dark matter works. It also sheds light on how the universe arrived at the large-sca ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by ...

A team of scientists have found a massive "gravity hole" in the historically mysterious and frozen continent of Antarctica. The question is, what is causing it?

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified a nearly invisible galaxy in the Perseus Cluster that appears to consist almost entirely of dark matter. Designated Candidate Dark ...

Astronomers have created the largest and most detailed 3D map yet of a glowing signal from the early universe, revealing hidden galaxies and gas from 9-11 billion years ago. By analyzing faint ...

Cosmic voids are different. These vast expanses contain very little matter. In such places, the vacuum of space-time itself becomes the dominant component. If you were positioned at the center of a ...

A mysterious striped signal from the Crab Pulsar may finally be explained by a delicate balance between plasma effects and ...

Astronomers with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have used data from the project to make the ...

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