The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions ...

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 ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

New research suggests dark matter may be a cosmic illusion caused by evolving natural forces, reshaping our understanding of ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

Astronomers say that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe's first "dark stars" that are fuelled by dark matter.

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...

New research suggests that dark matter could gather over vast periods of time at the heart of Jupiter-sized planets, creating black holes that eat these worlds from within. This striking concept may ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...