Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

"We don't know the frequency, so we need to keep tuning and trying different ones, like searching for a good radio station ...

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

Published in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkeley and others have shared the ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner.

Ethan Nadler, a computational astrophysicist at UC San Diego, may have found an answer. Using analytic predictions from ...

Offers new possibilities to control light across the spectrum and insight into light–matter interactions. The device, reported in Advanced Photonics, functions as an optical black hole or optical ...

However, a groundbreaking series of studies conducted as part of the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA ... and interactions with dark matter. These findings challenge the long-standing ...

We can't see dark matter, but scientists have made the largest map yet of the invisible material that helps make up the universe. Researchers used a dark energy camera and a large telescope to ...

Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter, a mysterious substance that shapes galaxies and large structures in the universe but is transparent to photons, the carriers ...