During the 1970s, while probing distant galaxies to determine their mass, size, and other characteristics, astronomers noticed something interesting. When…
At first glance the large scale structure of the Universe may seem to be a swarming mass of unconnected galaxies.…
When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe. Before…
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, previously known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), will be the first observatory of…
Dark matter may have to go on a diet, according to new research. (more…)
A fuzzy form of dark matter may clump up to become the cores of galaxies, according to new research. (more…)
The traditional theory of black hole formation seems to struggle to explain how black holes can merge into larger more…
Neutrinos are tricky little blighters that are hard to observe. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica was built to detect…
A survey of high velocity clouds in the galactic halo of the Milky Way finds that they make up less…
The nature of dark matter has been a hotly debated topic for decades. If it’s a heavy, slow moving particle…