Can galaxies exist without an outer halo of dark matter? But new research flips this question around, investigating whether ...

Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo—a region of gravitationally bound matter that extends far ...

U.S. National Laboratories (Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, and Oak Ridge) possess three of the world’s fastest exascale ...

Ethan Nadler, a computational astrophysicist at UC San Diego, may have found an answer. Using analytic predictions from ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

The unusual galaxy was profiled in two complimentary studies. The first study, led by Doctoral Candidate Yimeng Tang of the University of California, Santa Cruz and published in the journal ...

Every galaxy we can see is believed to sit at the center of a huge cloud of invisible material called a dark matter halo.

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, ...

This unimaginably massive structure cannot be explained by visible matter alone, so scientists believe dark matter and dark energy must play a role. These invisible forces are thought to make up ...

New Technique to Detect Dark Matter Using Atomic Clocks and Lasers Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter ...

The telescope launched in 2023, aiming to chart one third of the sky -- encompassing 1.5 billion galaxies -- to create what has been billed as humanity's most accurate 3D map of the universe.