For over a century, astronomers have searched the skies for a perfect example of a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein: a ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...

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

Dark-matter research spans a very broad range of topics and methods. This makes it a challenging research field to enter and master. Dark Matter: Evidence, Theory and Constraints by David Marsh, David ...

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?

Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. They are searching for dark matter using atomic ...

Euclid, the European Space Agency's dark Universe detective, has made an astonishing discovery -- right in our cosmic backyard.

A recent study offers a new explanation for the rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe, proposing ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...

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

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies roughly 13 billion light years away. Their study, published in The ...

Researchers propose a new physics model suggesting dark matter played a crucial role in the rapid formation of supermassive ...