When dark matter particles enter planets, they are subject to scattering, capture, and annihilation. When they scatter—or collide—they impart kinetic energy into the planetary particles, which ...

Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter, a mysterious substance that shapes galaxies and large structures in the universe but is transparent to photons, the carriers ...

Welcome to the kingdom of the dark. We do not understand what dark matter is, but we know that it exists. The evidence goes all the way back to the 1930s and the efforts of pioneering astronomer ...

A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark matter. A mysterious phenomenon at the centre of our galaxy could be the result of a different ...

More information: Hao Jiao et al, Direct Collapse Supermassive Black Holes from Ultralight Dark Matter, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.19414 Journal information: arXiv ...

Mysterious Phenomenon at Center of Galaxy Could Reveal New Kind of Dark Matter Mar. 10, 2025 — A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark ...

In the ongoing quest to understand dark matter, researchers are now wondering if a strange phenomenon occurring at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy could be from a different form of dark matter. 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 ...

The assumption of constant dark energy is baked into the widely accepted Lambda-CDM model of the universe. In this model, only 5% of the universe is made up of the ordinary matter we can see.

Today the canonical story of cosmic evolution describes this tug-of-war between the unwavering push of dark energy and the gravitational pull of matter (including the vast reservoirs of invisible ...

It is thought to account for around 70% of the universe's matter and energy. The mysterious "stuff" called dark matter makes up another 25%, and ordinary matter comprising stars, planets ...