Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, is predicted to account for most of the ...

Although dark matter is invisible, its various effects can still sometimes be seen—such as in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370 some four billion light-years from ...

A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance – ...

These hypothetical, effectively eternal bodies would be powered by dark matter annihilation, and though dim, there is a way we could spot them. Dark matter is expected to pervade the Universe, but ...

Modelling suggests that annihilation of this strange, invisible matter helps stars to retain that youthful glow.

Sounds like magic, works like physics. By Elizabeth Rayne Published: May 28, 2025 3:15 PM EDT. ... Dark matter is thought to make up a little over a quarter of the universe, ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the natural mass range of the WIMP would precisely match the abundances needed to ...

That dark matter is not completely dark, as Sutter puts it, and has some rare and weak interaction with visible particles. ... Magic Mushrooms Might Be the Key to Longer Lives.

Dark matter could act as a cosmic matchmaker between dark matter and merging supermassive black holes, solving astronomy's "final parsec problem." Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

Related: We still don't know what dark matter is, but here's what it's not Now, a team of researchers says black holes may serve as the perfect test bed for finding this kind of dark matter. They ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...