The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

"No existing galaxy formation model within our standard cosmological paradigm can currently explain how this galaxy came to ...

A massive clump of dark matter in the Perseus galaxy cluster is linked to its core by a bridge of dark matter, evidence of a ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

Scientists want to build a new type of detector they liken to a "cosmic car radio," that could listen to what the dark matter ...

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

Instead, these objects are dominated by dark matter, which only weakly interacts ... Based on the galaxy’s mass and rotation, the researchers were also able to calculate its distance as around ...

Mysterious Phenomenon at Center of Galaxy Could Reveal New Kind of Dark Matter Mar. 10, 2025 — A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark ...

Point sources such as the black hole at the centre of the galaxy or cosmic ray sources like supernovas (exploding stars) cannot easily explain this. But a smoothly distributed dark matter halo can.

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 ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter. First spotted in 2024, FCC 224 is a dwarf galaxy that boasts a dozen luminous, tightly bound ...