A while back, a rumor was going around saying that Warner Bros. has a maindate for all of their DC superheroes: they would all be dark and brooding like The Dark Knight. Greg Silverman, chief of ...

This Hubble Space Telescope composite image shows a ghostly "ring" of dark matter in the galaxy cluster Cl 0024+17 in this stunning space wallpaper. Skip to main content.

When light from a background object, such as a galaxy, passes nearby a massive cluster on its way to Earth, its image will appear bent because of the crooked path its light traveled.

Using data from the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes, scientists have determined that dark matter ghosted through the wreckage of two colliding galaxy clusters over 5 billion light-years away.

According to standard cosmology, we should be swimming in dark matter. Measurements of the afterglow of the big bang—the so-called cosmic microwave background—and of the distribution of the ...

The majority of the detected gamma rays is produced in our own Galaxy ... "No trace of dark matter in gamma-ray background." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 12 ...

A newly discovered dwarf galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way has offered up a surprise -- it appears to be radiating gamma rays, according to an analysis by physicists. The exact source of this high ...

Dark matter ‘galaxy’ may be holding four stars together beyond the edge of the Milky Way. DON’T look now. There’s an entire invisible galaxy lurking right next door.

This story was updated at 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 5. A giant string of invisible dark matter has been discovered across the universe between a pair of galaxy clusters. The filament forms a bridge ...

Subtle distortions hidden in ALMA’s image of the gravitational lens SDP.81 are telltale signs that a dwarf dark galaxy is lurking in the halo of a much larger galaxy nearly 4 billion light-years ...

Scientists discovered a galaxy, AGC 114905, that may not have dark matter, and they are not quite sure how. It could challenge ideas of how galaxies are formed.