Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

These two properties of axions mean that they are exceptionally good at collapsing down to incredibly high densities, pulled ...

Other scientists think the effects of dark matter could be explained by fundamentally modifying our theories of gravity. According to such ideas, there are multiple forms of gravity, and the large ...

Their theory suggests that dark matter might have originated from a separate "Dark Big Bang," occurring shortly after the universe began. For decades, scientists have believed that all matter in ...

A final, and controversial, suggestion is that dark matter doesn’t exist at all, and we’ve simply got our theories of gravity all wrong. But Einstein’s general theory of relativity ...

Detecting dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, has so far proved to ...

Another possible theory is known as ‘evolving dark energy’ or ‘quintessence,’ in which there is another, previously unknown field that has the opposite effect of matter and normal energy. It could ...

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Excessive dark matter mass may disrupt the Higgs boson Heavier dark matter challenges Standard Model physics Lighter ...

One of these candidates is so-called light dark matter (LDM), particles with low masses below a few giga-electron volts (GeV/c 2). Theories suggest that these particles could weakly interact with ...

Observing the interactions between dark matter and so-called "dark photons" during a period after the Big Bang called the "cosmic dawn" could help shed light on the universe's most mysterious and ...