Exotic, dark astrophysical objects may be hiding in interstellar space, and a new proposal outlines how to find them: stare really, really hard. We don't know what dark matter is, even though we ...

In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever discovered through gravitational lensing. This breakthrough provides significant ...

Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

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(Nanowerk News) Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich tapestry of stars and galaxies we see in the night sky evolved.

With the aid of a multinational network of radio telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever found in the universe. The mysterious object, roughly one million ...

The black ring and central dot show infrared image of a distant galaxy distorted by a gravitation lens. Orange/reg shows radio waves from the same object. The inset shows a pinch caused by another, ...