A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

But a smoothly distributed dark matter halo can. Our findings suggest that the center of the Milky Way may offer new clues about the fundamental nature of dark matter. Future telescopes with ...

In addition to dark matter, dark galaxies contain hydrogen ... indicate the clump is just a gas cloud falling into the Milky Way. Zhu agrees that a more accurate distance estimate and higher ...

Strange events seen at the very heart of the Milky Way could be smoking gun evidence of a new dark matter suspect. If that is the case, scientists may have been missing the subtle impact of dark ...

In the ongoing quest to understand dark matter, researchers are now wondering if a strange phenomenon occurring at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy could be from a different form of dark matter. Dark ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over ...

A peculiar cluster of stars swirling around the violent center of the Milky Way could become "immortal" by continuously capturing and destroying dark matter particles in their cores, a new study ...

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

In particular, it provides a way to test models involving light dark matter particles, which are difficult to detect using traditional laboratory experiments. Move observations of the Milky Way could ...

But a smoothly distributed dark matter halo can. Our findings suggest that the centre of the Milky Way may offer new clues about the fundamental nature of dark matter. Future telescopes with ...