"It highlights gravity's possible hidden complexity and invites a reevaluation of where dark matter effects originate." ...

For decades, astronomers have treated dark matter as the invisible scaffolding of the cosmos, a mysterious substance that ...

The mystery of dark matter—unseen, pervasive, and essential in standard cosmology—has loomed over physics for decades. In new ...

At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...

According to new research dark matter is considered to be the most puzzling substance in the universe. It has been a thorn in the side of physicists; despite outweighing ordinary matter by a ...

Cosmic web Created using data from the JWST, this map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Two fresh ideas are giving scientists new ways to think about how the universe’s hidden mass came to be. Together, they paint a richer picture of dark matter’s origins and how we might still discover ...

There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...