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 ...

The new study from the team at the University of York suggests that dark matter could leave very faint, measurable marks on ...

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 using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found the universe’s first “dark stars.” Within the first few ...

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 ...

A chance configuration of objects arrayed across deep space has just revealed the hiding place of a giant glob of dark matter. Configurations like these, known as Einstein crosses, typically consist ...

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 — ...

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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