Dark Matter

Could pulsars shine a flashlight on the mysteries of supermassive black holes?

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 months ago

Liz DNA Strands

DNA 'dark matter' could create species we never imagined

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 months ago

Liz Doctor Strange

Would Doctor Strange think of using a quantum crystal to reveal the secrets of dark matter?

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 months ago

darth matter

The dark force secretly slowing down our galaxy could be dark matter

By Elizabeth Rayne 5 months ago

The ultra-diffuse dwarf galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, seen here using Hubble, apparently has little or no dark matter. It’s not clear how this happened. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Zili Shen (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale), Shany Danieli (IAS) Image processing: Aly

What happened to this galaxy’s dark matter?

By Phil Plait 5 months ago

Milky Way

Could the alleged black hole in the center of our galaxy be a ginormous glob of dark matter?

By Elizabeth Rayne 5 months ago

The galaxy cluster WHL J095921.0+011752, at a distance of about 1.5 billion light years from Earth, was one of many clusters examined in the Dark Energy Survey. Almost everything in this image is a distant galaxy.

Deep sky survey shows the Universe is a teeny tiny bit smoother than expected

By Phil Plait 6 months ago

Artist drawing of a solitary brown dwarf in space, glowing feebly in visible light. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Dark matter might heat exoplanets enough to make them glow

By Phil Plait 6 months ago

Dark matter could be powering a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way until they collide

By Elizabeth Rayne 7 months ago

Could destroyed dark matter have created an orb of gamma rays at the center of our galaxy?

By Elizabeth Rayne 7 months ago