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

Do constants of nature—the numbers that determine how things behave, like the speed of light—change over time as the universe expands? Does light get a little tired traveling vast cosmic distances? It ...

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 ...

The doctoral thesis of Sophia Hollick, Ph.D. '25, a recent graduate of Yale's Wright Lab in professor Reina Maruyama's group, has significantly contributed to answering a decades-long question in her ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to anchor our galaxy, explaining both the blistering speeds of stars near the ...

Black Holes that appeared soon after the Big Bang challenge conventional theories on their formation and evolution. New ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The latest hunt for dark matter has come up empty handed so far, but the upside is that physicists can now set the tightest constraints ever on the nature of this mysterious substance. New ...

Dark matter is some kind of substance that has gravity—it holds galaxies together—yet cannot be directly seen with any instrument yet created. We know it’s out there because of the effects it has on ...

Scientists just announced that they have detected a completely unexpected number of antihelium particles—something that could mean they were generated by dark matter. Specifically, they could have ...

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