Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

When describing collective properties of macroscopic physical systems, microscopic fluctuations are typically averaged out, leaving a description of the typical behavior of the systems. While this ...

A new paper published in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, ...

A long-dismissed idea involving “cosmic knots” could help explain several of the universe’s most perplexing mysteries—including the origins of neutrino masses, dark matter, and the imbalance between ...

At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars. NASA’s ...

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95% of the Universe Might Be Fake: New Theory Says Dark Matter and Dark Energy Are Just Illusions - © Shutterstock For more than thirty years, cosmologists have ...

Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter candidates. Unlike axions or WIMPs, these particles carry electric charge but ...

A study by Dartmouth researchers proposes a new theory about the origin of dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. The researchers ...