A large dark hole that scientists say is wider than 60 Earths has currently opened up on the sun's surface, and is sending out "powerful streams of unusually fast radiation, known as solar wind." ...

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 ...

A team of researchers says black holes may serve as the perfect test bed for finding dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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One of the greatest mysteries in cosmology is the nature of what we refer to as dark energy. This mysterious force drives the expansion of the universe to accelerate. Dark energy is an unknown ...

Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy when massive stars collapse and become black holes. Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a ...

The solution to astronomy's "final parsec problem" could come from the dark universe and it could change everything we know about dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Astronomers have found over 5,000 exoplanets, and now scientists think these distant worlds could unlock one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. A new study suggests that Jupiter-like ...