A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang.

A new study suggests that failing to detect dark matter signals in some galaxies may not contradict evidence seen in our own.

Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere, threaded through the Milky Way and outnumbering ordinary matter by a wide margin.

A growing mystery in astronomy is the presence of gargantuan black holes—some weighing as much as a billion suns—existing ...

New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could ...

Several theories have attempted to explain excess far-ultraviolet light present in the Milky Way, but none have been ...

The absence of a signal could itself be a signal. This is the idea behind a new study published in the Journal of Cosmology ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

Two kilometres underground near Sudbury, Ont. , a machine has reached a temperature so low it barely seems real.

Particle physics continues to probe the most fundamental constituents of matter while dark matter research seeks to illuminate the unseen mass that permeates our Universe. Recent efforts have ...

A mysterious glow of gamma rays at the center of the Milky Way has long hinted at dark matter, but the lack of similar ...

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely interact with the rest of the universe via gravity and to serve as the ...