The discovery was made possible using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) ...

Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...

These halos contain substructures, such as sub-halos, which host smaller galaxies. Computer simulations show that dark matter forms a complex cosmic web, with filaments and voids. This web influences ...

"As yet, nobody has managed to understand what gives rise to this strange phenomenon, and explaining dark energy remains one ...

“There are two components in the universe: dark matter—which as far as we know, only interacts gravitationally—and conventional matter, or atomic matter.” said project lead Salman Habib, division ...

A fuzzy form of dark matter may clump up to become the cores of galaxies, according to new research. The traditional dark matter hypothesis, that it's some form of cold, massive particle that ...

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Primordial black holes could reshape our understanding of dark matter. Researchers suggest these elusive cosmic phenomena might be hiding within hollow ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

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Here’s how it works. Galaxies may be anchored to giant "dark stars" — clumps of invisible matter sitting at their cores, new research suggests. Although astronomers have an abundance of ...

Here’s how it works. A hidden family of "ghost particles" may be responsible for all the dark matter in the universe — and the reason that there is any matter at all, a recent preprint study ...