This makes them an interesting, if exotic, candidate for dark matter, new research suggests. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes aren't entirely black. Through a complex ...

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, according to new research. In the extremely early universe, primordial black ...

New Technique to Detect Dark Matter Using Atomic Clocks and Lasers Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter ...

These new particles might also exist in the right quantities to explain dark matter. Two categories of particles emerged as popular candidates. One group, called WIMPs (for weakly interacting ...

Then in 1998, two groups of scientists announced a new finding: Far from being slowed by the pull of dark matter, the universe was actually expanding at an accelerating rate. This observation ...

Dark energy makes up roughly 70% of the universe, yet we know nothing about it. Around 25% of the universe is the equally mysterious dark matter ... And with several new telescopes taking aim ...

The data includes the classification survey of 380,000 galaxies, 500 new gravitational ... crack the mysteries of the "dark universe," the collective name for dark matter and dark energy.

Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be driving the ever-faster expansion of the universe, appears to be changing over time, according to new observations released Wednesday. If dark ...

The new data release could also help astrophysicists better understand how galaxies and black holes evolve and the nature of dark matter. Although dark matter has never been detected, it is ...

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - New data involving ... contents include ordinary matter - stars, planets, gas, dust and all the familiar stuff on Earth - as well as dark matter and dark energy.