It's 99 percent dark matter, a new study explains.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to be a galaxy that is the most heavily dominated by dark matter ever seen.
Its electronic gaze will sift through endless voids and millions of galaxies to hunt dark matter.
A tight clump of four star clusters sits in the Perseus galaxy cluster, and at first glance it looks like nothing special. No bright spiral arms.
Dark matter doesn’t emit, absorb, or reflect light. It’s invisible but supposedly makes up 85% of the universe’s mass.
In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies ...
Called CDG-2, this newly identified “ghostly” galaxy may be one of the most dark matter-dominated galaxies ever discovered, with a staggering 99% of its total mass made up of dark matter — a ...
A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may finally help scientists understand a mysterious substance that binds the universe together. Taken by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, the latest ...
The universe is packed with riddles, but few are as stubborn or as fascinating as dark matter. First proposed in 1933 by astronomer Fritz Zwicky, this elusive substance refuses to play by the rules: ...
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