Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. "El Gordo" one of the most cluster of galaxies known to exist, which has strange properties that ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies. By studying how these galaxies clustered ...

"It's all about mindset in science, where a null result can be as impactful as a positive result." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

In a groundbreaking move towards understanding one of the universe’s greatest mysteries, physicists are turning to time itself to uncover the elusive nature of dark matter. While the presence of dark ...

An artistic illustration of the mechanism proposed by Professor Stefano Profumo where quantum effects near the rapidly expanding cosmic horizon after the Big Bang gravitationally generate dark matter ...

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence. Over a decade ago, dark-matter experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt joined the ...

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely interact with the rest of the universe via gravity and to serve as the ...

Rajendra Gupta receives unconditional research funding from Macronix Research Corporation. He is affiliated with the American Physical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, European Astronomical ...

The "final parsec problem" describes the difficulty in explaining how supermassive black holes lose sufficient orbital energy to merge when separated by distances around one parsec, where ...

A new algorithm will search images of colliding galaxy clusters for evidence of self-interacting dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...