NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Dark Messenger Searches at an Accelerator, or DAMSA, is an experimental collaboration involving 13 U.S. and 11 South Korean ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking atom interferometer capable of amplifying faint signals by 1,000 times — making it ...

Physicists searching for “dark forces” unexpectedly discovered deformed atomic nuclei. When top research teams collaborate, ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

The nature of dark matter is largely unknown, but it is thought to have mass, which influences particle interactions in the universe through gravity. Dark matter may not interact much with visible ...

The Biden administration's 2021 removal of the term 'alien' is reversed by ICE on January 21, 2025, reinstating 'alien' and 'alienage' to define foreigners. This language, criticized for creating ...

The FLI then depicts in this voxel lattice what it predicts the 3D structure of galaxies and underlying dark matter should look like according to the standard model of cosmology (which describes ...

The skies may be full of invisible "boson stars" that are made of an exotic form of matter that does not shine. We strongly suspect that the universe is full of dark matter, which makes up around ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...