The dark object has a mass a million times greater than our sun's is located 10 billion light-years away and has no stars.

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Some neutron stars may contain a "special type of matter," according to a new NASA study. These observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory indicate that the interiors of neutron stars might ...

Astronomers have traced the hidden fingerprints of dark matter by observing rare, glowing galaxies that lived in the early ...

What comes to mind when you think of space? Imagine a friend boasting about a spacious building, stadium or museum they recently visited. Do you envision the building as vast and expansive? Is it ...

Dark matter continues to confound us, so far defying every attempt to decipher it. According to a new study, clues may lurk in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone, a vast region of hydrogen ...

Dark matter, the invisible substance believed to account for over 80 percent of the universe’s mass, is not an easy thing to detect. We can see its gravitational pull on visible matter, however — ...

A new paper suggests we may finally be able to uncover the identity of dark matter using the same technology that detects ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves. When you purchase through ...

At the end of a lecture on astronomy, describing how the planets orbit the Sun, a little old lady at the back of the room ...

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