No theory could explain the slight excess of far-ultraviolet light in the Milky Way until now.

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

The difference is like a crowd of people who ignore each other versus one where everyone is constantly bumping into one another,’ says scientist ...

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

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, suggests that ...

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

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

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

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

Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies suggest that dark matter might not be a particle hiding in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A University of Sheffield team reports signs that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, offering a new way to explain a cosmic ...

Ask most astronomers, and they’ll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we ...