A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

A new research effort involving simulations of Milky-Way-like galaxies shows that the mysterious, unexplained extra gamma ...

The century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — just got a modern clue.

Could the Milky Way’s most enigmatic light be the death cry of invisible matter? For over a decade, an explanation has eluded ...

Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo. Stars are formed when gravity within dark matter halos draws in gas, but astrophysicists don't know whether star-free dark matter ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used NASA’s most powerful supercomputer to run the largest simulation to date of the formation and evolution of the dark ...

The Bullet Cluster as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) consists of a larger cluster of galaxies (left) and a smaller cluster (right). The hot gas seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory is ...

At the centre of spiral galaxies – those near to us but also those billions of light-years away – there is a vast spherical region made up of dark matter particles. This region has two defining ...

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