Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere, threaded through the Milky Way and outnumbering ordinary matter by a wide margin.

A student-led experiment has shown that the search for dark matter doesn’t always require massive infrastructure.

New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could ...

A new study suggests that failing to detect dark matter signals in some galaxies may not contradict evidence seen in our own.

A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang.

A mysterious glow of gamma rays at the center of the Milky Way has long hinted at dark matter, but the lack of similar ...

A growing mystery in astronomy is the presence of gargantuan black holes—some weighing as much as a billion suns—existing ...

“With so many unanswered questions, gravity remains one of the most fascinating areas of research,” Patricio Gallardo, one of ...

Only about 5% of the universe is composed of normal matter that we can directly observe, while the remaining 95% is widely ...

Learn how a two-state model of dark matter could explain why gamma-ray signals appear in some galaxies but not others.

Dark matter may consist of two particles, explaining why only the Milky Way shows a strange gamma-ray signal while smaller ...

The halo is more extended than astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...