Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

An international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has shed light on a ...

New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...

A mysterious glow of gamma rays from the centre of the Milky Way has reignited debate over dark matter. The unexplained radiation, first detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, appears ...

Astronomers have shed light on a decades-long debate about why galaxies rotate faster than expected, and whether this ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...

New strategies may soon allow scientists to test dark energy theories within our own solar system, linking cosmic-scale physics to local observation. Science advances through a cycle of proposing ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

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