7 Weird Space Phenomena That Only Make Sense if Dark Matter Exists
Dark matter is the invisible stuff making up around 85% of the universe’s mass. Like its name, dark…
Physicists Think They Saw a Black Hole Explode
Black holes are born from the explosive deaths of stars. But can black holes themselves explode? Nobody knows…
Astronomers find clearest evidence yet of a dark matter subhalo near the Sun
Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden…
Giant dark matter ‘sheet’ may shape galactic motion in the Milky Way
On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they…
Something Mysteriously Powerful Slammed Into Earth in 2023. Scientists Now Have a Theory
In astrophysics, extreme events may call for extreme interpretations. Sometimes, that means weighing every possible option for what…
Milky Way’s ‘Central Black Hole’ is Compact Object Composed of Fermionic Dark Matter, Study Says
For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as…
Daring Theory Challenges the Black Hole’s Reign Over the Milky Way’s Core
Astronomers have yet to fully grasp the Galactic Center—the heart of the Milky Way—although they’re fairly certain that…
Record-breaking neutrino points to exploding primordial black hole
A neutrino slammed into Earth in 2023 with so much energy that it looked almost unreal. The particle…
Scientists build the world’s first large-scale quantum sensor network to search for dark matter
Researchers from China recently announced the creation of the largest quantum network in history to directly investigate the…
Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter
The Milky Way — and in fact our entire galactic neighborhood known as the Local Group — appear…
James Webb captures the sharpest map of dark matter ever created
The Dark Matter distribution in the COSMOS field observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. (Credit: Gavin Leroy/Professor…
New dark matter map shows the universe in detail
A new, highly detailed map powered by JWST data reveals the invisible dark matter structure of our universe.…