A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research ...

A good chunk of cosmology is riding on whether dark matter exists or not. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is ...

A new kind of dark matter could help explain some of the universe’s mysteries, a new study suggests. The study proposes that there are dense clumps of “self-interacting dark matter”, or SIDM, each ...

A new study suggests that decaying dark matter may have helped create the universe’s first supermassive black holes much ...

Theories of quantum mechanics predict that some particles can exist in superpositions, which essentially means that they can be in more than one state at once. When a particle's state is measured, ...

Something invisible holds the universe intact. It outweighs everything you can see—every star, every gas cloud, every ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. map of dark matter Thanks to gravity, at least we're aware dark matter exists. We also know it's eerily abundant, accounting for ...

Dark centre? A simulated version of the Milky Way galaxy. (Courtesy: AIP/ A. Khalatyan) Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation ...

This new map is not only the most detailed view of the universe’s invisible scaffolding to date, it also allows astronomers to look deeper into cosmic history. Reading time 3 minutes Dark matter—the ...

Ask most astronomers, and they’ll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we ...