"It highlights gravity's possible hidden complexity and invites a reevaluation of where dark matter effects originate." ...

For decades, astronomers have treated dark matter as the invisible scaffolding of the cosmos, a mysterious substance that ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets.

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

“By revealing dark matter with unprecedented precision, our map shows how an invisible component of the Universe has structured visible matter to the point of enabling the emergence of galaxies, stars ...

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Scientists have created the most detailed map yet of dark matter—the mysterious substance that makes up most of the universe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movements of galaxies could reveal the physics behind dark matter. (Credit: NASA) A new study in the journal Nature examines ...

There’s still a lot we don’t know about dark matter, or the “missing” mass supposedly constituting around 85% of the universe. Physicists have good reason to believe it’s out there. New research ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...