Dark matter rules every galaxy. But what exactly is it? Astronomers believe it to be some kind of new, exotic…
We don't quite understand how the first supermassive black holes formed so quickly in the young universe. So a team…
If it were't for an enormous halo of dark matter enveloping our galaxy, the spin-rate of our central bar should…
Cosmology is now stranger to large scale surveys. The discipline prides itself on data collection, and when the data it…
A new simulation by a team of astrophysicists has resulted in the most detailed 3D map of the cosmic web,…
The outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy are a different place. Stars are much harder to come by, with…
So, you want to find dark matter, but you don't know where to look? A giant planet might be exactly…
For years astronomers have puzzled over a strange excess of gamma rays coming from the galactic center. Annihilating dark matter…
Supermassive black holes are just a little bit too supermassive - astronomers have difficulty explaining how they got so big…
A new study proposes an exotic boson star to explain the largest gravitational wave merger we've observed.