It’s not the dark side of the Force, just the invisible side. There is matter we can’t see flying around the entire universe, and it exerts a force on everything. That means you. Think more in terms ...

Pictures of the Milky Way show billions of stars arranged in a spiral pattern radiating out from the center, with illuminated gas in between. But our eyes can only glimpse the surface of what holds ...

Only 31 percent of the universe is made up of matter, scientists have discovered, with the rest being made up of dark energy. Previous models and observations of the universe have estimated that the ...

A team of astronomers has, for the first time, "weighed" dark matter haloes surrounding actively feeding supermassive black holes in the bright hearts of ancient galaxies. These black hole-powered ...

At the center of every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. Beyond a certain size, these become active, emitting huge amounts of radiation, and are then called quasars. It is thought these are ...

A new theoretical study proposes that light from distant galaxies could be slightly shifted in color by interactions with dark matter. This shift—either toward red or blue—would depend on the nature ...

Scientists from MIPT, the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Novosibirsk State University (NSU) have discovered that the proportion of unstable particles in ...

Scientists have succesfully measured the direct influence of gravity on antimatter for the first time in history by dropping antihydrogen atoms from a magnetic trap, and observing as they annihalated ...