Dark Matter
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…
A Massive Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter
Astronomers have found a massive galaxy that contains little to no Dark Matter, something that doesn't fit with current cosmological…
ESA's Euclid Mission is Off to Explore the Dark Universe
The Euclid space telescope, the ESA's next-generation astrophysics mission, was successfully launched to space!
Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors Could Pin Down Dark Matter
Gravitational astronomy is a relatively new discipline that has opened many doors for astronomers to understand how the huge and…
Dark Matter Might Interact in a Totally Unexpected Way With the Universe
A new theory of Dark Matter suggests that it interact with normal matter in a non-localized way, potentially revolutionizing our…
Nancy Grace Roman Could Detect Supermassive Dark Stars
Dark stars are hypothetical objects that might have been present in the early Universe before the first stars and even…
Exactly How Massive is the Milky Way?
What is the mass of the Milky Way? What do you get if you add up all the stars, gas,…
Dark Matter Can Make Dark Atoms
A team of theoretical astrophysicists have studied in detail a hypothetical form of dark matter that combines to form dark…
Gravitational Lensing is Helping to Nail Down Dark Matter
Using gravitational lenses, a team of astronomers showed how axions could be the particle that makes up Dark Matter.
The First Light in the Universe Helps Build a Dark Matter Map
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration used years of cosmic microwave background data to create a new map of Dark…