Dark Matter
Are Pulsars the Key to Finding Dark Matter?
The search for dark matter continues, with astronomers developing new hypotheses to search for this invisible gravitational influence on the…
Dark Matter Could Be Annihilating Inside White Dwarfs
Astronomers still don't know what dark matter is, but one of its characteristics is that it has a small "cross…
Dark Photons Could Be the Key to Both Dark Matter and the Muon Anomaly.
Dark matter might have its own force, mediated by dark photons similar to the way electromagnetism is mediated by photons.…
Quasars Have Always Had Dark Matter Halos
When you look at most galaxies in the Universe, you're looking at the homes of supermassive black holes. It now…
Astronomers Observe Blobs of Dark Matter Down to a Scale of 30,000 Light-Years Across
Dark matter remains mysterious and… well… dark. While we don't yet have a definite idea of what this cosmic "stuff"…
A New Telescope Could Detect Decaying Dark Matter in the Early Universe
A gap in astronomical knowledge is Cosmic Dawn, a time when the first stars in the Universe formed, ending the…
Evidence for Modified Gravity Found in the Motions of Binary Stars
There are two leading explanations for dark matter, massive particles that don't interact with regular matter apart from gravity and…
Astronomers Search for Dark Matter Annihilation at the Center of the Earth
If dark matter is made of heavy particles, they could become captured by the gravitational field of massive objects like…
Dark Matter Experiment Fails to Turn Up the Mysterious Particle, but Narrows its Hiding Places
So much in science is based on constraints. If scientists don't understand something, they try to constrain it as much…
Have We Seen the First Glimpse of Supermassive Dark Stars?
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) examines what are known as dark…