Scientists are investigating enigmatic phenomena observed in the center of our galaxy. Telescopes are detecting mysterious ...

In simplest terms, the rate at which the universe expands on paper doesn’t match actual astronomical observations. That speed ...

A recent astronomical discovery is revolutionizing our understanding of spiral galaxies. A giant spiral galaxy, located ...

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

Published in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkeley and others have shared the ...

There's a new twist in the hunt for dark matter ... to other dark matter candidates, which could explain a mysterious phenomenon at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, in a region called the ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have found compelling evidence of a dark matter-deficient dwarf galaxy, FCC 224. This ultra-diffuse galaxy is located on the ...

This puzzling result makes sense if one assumes that the boundary stars are feeling the gravitational effects of an unseen mass—dark matter—in a halo around the galaxy. Dark matter could also ...

But scientists have yet to figure out what dark matter is made of and where it comes from. Another mystery of the Milky Way is at the very core of our galaxy – a supermassive black hole ...

12, 2025 — New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and ... the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark ...

Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo. Stars are formed when gravity within dark matter halos draws in gas, but astrophysicists don't know whether star-free dark ...