Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could ...
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Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, ...
Astronomers Explain Where the Universe's Missing Normal Matter Lives ...
Strange events seen at the very heart of the Milky Way could be smoking gun evidence of a new dark matter suspect. If that is the case, scientists may have been missing the subtle impact of dark ...
A new theory published in the APS physicsjournal seeks to explain the origin and proliferation of dark matter through the introduction of a simple concept: what if dark matter can turn regular matter ...
A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.
It has been more than 50 years since astronomers first proposed “dark matter,” which is thought to be the most common form of matter in the universe. Despite this, we have no idea what it is — nobody ...