A new study suggests that decaying dark matter may have helped create the universe’s first supermassive black holes much ...

A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research ...

A good chunk of cosmology is riding on whether dark matter exists or not. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is ...

Scientists know that the elusive substance called dark matter makes up most of all the matter in the universe, but have never ...

A new kind of dark matter could help explain some of the universe’s mysteries, a new study suggests. The study proposes that there are dense clumps of “self-interacting dark matter”, or SIDM, each ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By rethinking gravity and cosmic timelines, it could rewrite our ...

Something invisible holds the universe intact. It outweighs everything you can see—every star, every gas cloud, every ...

As a central hub for scientific exploration, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is dedicated to probing the enigmatic particles that could potentially elucidate the mystery of dark ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This distorted structure could naturally explain the puzzling gamma-ray glow long ...