A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Przeau of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, or “hairs.” Dark matter is an ...

To discover the identity of dark matter—the elusive stuff that accounts for most of the mass in the universe—researchers have done most of their searching belowground. If you're enjoying this article, ...

SEATTLE – An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has created the first three-dimensional map of the large-scale distribution of dark matter in the universe. Dark ...

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In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct image of the cosmic web, a vast and largely invisible structure that plays a ...

Scientists have released the first of several dark matter maps of the cosmos. Researchers from the Dark Energy Survey used data captured by the Dark Energy Camera, a 570-megapixel imaging device they ...

The Coma Cluster is home to over 1,000 galaxies — and 90% of its mass is dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Coma ...

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Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a discovery that could finally solve the mystery of the Universe s missing ...