According to general relativity, gravity is the distortion of spacetime. Heavyweight cosmic entities like stars or galaxies ...
There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...
Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark ...
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...
Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...
A group of US astronomers may have uncovered the first evidence for a dark matter sub-halo lurking just beyond our stellar ...
A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...
Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...
At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...
Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.
Astronomers have spent decades hunting for dark matter by looking for light that isn’t ...
The object at the Milky Way’s center has long been treated as a settled case: a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* weighing about four million Suns and anchoring the galaxy’s structure. Now ...