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Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of ...

NASA has recently transformed sound waves emanating from the Perseus Galaxy Cluster’s black hole into a format perceptible to ...

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain how some black holes can ...

Astronomers have discovered a ghostly dwarf galaxy in a distant corner of the universe, which may have been a 'runaway' expelled from its original galaxy group billions of years ago, now drifting ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

NASA and South Korea's space agency have agreed to deeper cooperation in space exploration, science and aeronautics, including collaboration on a pioneering mission. New observations from the MeerKAT ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

A team of scientists led by Rutgers University has discovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracking the invisible cosmic scaffolding created by a mysterious substance known as dark matter. The ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...