Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the Perseus galaxy cluster, located 240 million light-years from Earth.

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter, the elusive stuff that ...

The researchers found a huge clump of dark matter about 1.4 million light-years west of the cluster’s center.

A massive clump of dark matter in the Perseus galaxy cluster is linked to its core by a bridge of dark matter, evidence of a ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a new ghost galaxy, that does not contain dark matter.

An international team of astronomers has solved one of the longstanding cosmic mysteries by uncovering direct evidence of a ...

T he Perseus cluster is enormous. It has a mass equivalent to 600 trillion Suns, and it looks like it has not stopped growing. New evidence suggests that it is undergoing a merging process with ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare kind of galaxy that seems to be missing one of the universe’s most important ingredients: ...

The researchers' numerical simulations suggest that the newly detected dark matter substructure collided ... Do you have a question about galaxy clusters? Let us know via [email protected].

"Globular clusters are often used as a proxy to estimate the amount of dark matter a galaxy contains," said Buzzo. "For some reason this galaxy (FCC 224) has an unusual number of luminous clusters ...

the central galaxy of the Perseus cluster. These two elements seem to be connected by a faint "bridge" of material. The structural backbone of this bridge is dark matter, the universe's most ...

Related: What is dark matter? First spotted in 2024, FCC 224 is a dwarf galaxy that boasts a dozen luminous, tightly bound clusters of stars — an unusually rich population for its size ...