One of the greatest mysteries in cosmology is the nature of what we refer to as dark energy. This mysterious force drives the expansion of the universe to accelerate. Dark energy is an unknown ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...

Astronomers have found over 5,000 exoplanets, and now scientists think these distant worlds could unlock one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. A new study suggests that Jupiter-like ...

"This black hole could then grow and consume the entire planet, turning it into a black hole with the same mass as the original planet." New research suggests that dark matter could gather over vast ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it has never been directly observed. You can’t see it, touch it, or hold it ...

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for the cold dark matter of the universe are primordial black holes—black holes ...

A new study suggests observational evidence that matter falling into black holes could be converted into dark energy, a component comprising 70% of the cosmos and accelerating its expansion. This ...

Jenny Slate got real about the realities of being postpartum and feeling what she called a “purple-dark hole” after giving birth to her daughter Ida. “I cannot tell if it is inside of me, or ...

The solution to astronomy's "final parsec problem" could come from the dark universe and it could change everything we know about dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

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