Black holes smashing together may churn dark matter "butter," scientists say.
We may be more in the dark about dark matter than previously thought, according to a new analysis of distant galaxy clusters.
Modern cosmology assumes dark matter exists. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're wrong?
Dark matter has eluded scientists for decades, but researchers now say it might have been detected by accident seven years ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...
Dark matter particles could be mediators of the interaction between electrons and atomic nuclei, as shown by a study ...
Well, around a similar time, the American Physical Society (APS) invited researchers and science enthusiasts to chime in on ...
UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...
Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics. New results from the world’s most sensitive ...
A ghostly ring of dark matter captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies, including the one we call home, are within halos of dark matter. But what exactly dark matter is remains something of a ...