Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...
Dark matter and its impact on cosmology have puzzled physicists for nearly a century. At Perimeter Institute, two researchers ...
Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...
Could the universe’s most elusive substance finally have given away its presence? Nearly a century after the first indirect ...
For nearly a century, something unseen has tugged at the cosmos. In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed galaxies ...
Dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the universe's matter, remains invisible to modern instruments. However, a new ...
On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...
In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...
A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that rather than the conventional formation scenarios ...
A researcher identified gamma ray emissions that appear to have originated from dark matter, but other physicists still ...
Artist's impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole observed from Earth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud. The light of a background star located in the LMC is bent by a putative ...
Scientists have found that unusually massive black holes seem to be absent from the diffuse outer halo of the Milky Way. The discovery could spell bad news for theories that suggest the universe's ...