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A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

The century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — just got a modern clue.

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

A new research effort involving simulations of Milky-Way-like galaxies shows that the mysterious, unexplained extra gamma ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

Despite it’s comparative size to our star, it’s still the least massive object ever detected using gravitational lensing.

Dark matter has two central properties: it has mass like regular matter, and unlike regular matter, it reacts weakly or not at all with light. Neutrinos satisfy these two criteria, but neutrinos move ...

Scientists may have made an "out of this world" discovery. New research suggests that a mysterious glow in our galaxy might be caused by dark matter, an invisible form of matter believed to be five ...

Dark matter makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe. It neither emits nor absorbs light, making it invisible ...