Dark matter may have contributed to the formation of giant black holes in the early universe, researchers propose in a new paper. More observations, especially with the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A dark matter halo with a galaxy at its heart. It's possible, however, that not all dark matter haloes could packed with stellar fillings. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) For some time ...

Do 'completely dark' dark matter halos exist? Date: April 8, 2025 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo. Stars ...

Dark matter is the unobservable form of matter that could make up as much as 85% of mass in the universe, but scientists are not sure exactly what it is. Axions are one of the leading candidates ...

Mysterious Phenomenon at Center of Galaxy Could Reveal New Kind of Dark Matter Mar. 10, 2025 — A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark ...

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, according to new research. In the extremely early universe, primordial black ...

Using high-resolution data from the Subaru Telescope, the researchers successfully traced the remnant of this ancient merger through the dark matter distribution. Galaxy clusters, composed of ...

But in a new study, published in Physical Review Letters, we show that both could be linked to one of the most elusive ingredients in the universe: dark matter. In particular, we propose that a ...

If axions exist, they could explain dark matter, an invisible form of matter inferred from observations of the cosmos. But efforts to spot the particles have been unsuccessful. The newfound axion ...

All galaxies (including our own) are thought to exist inside a giant cosmological structure called a dark matter halo — a cloud-like phenomenon made up of invisible matter that forms a scaffold to the ...

For almost a century, scientists have tried to explain this by searching for a hidden force called dark matter. It’s been an idea so accepted that entire models of the universe rely on it.