Somewhere beyond the light of any single galaxy, a vast architecture of gas and dark matter stretches across the observable ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a galaxy in the the Perseus galaxy cluster that is "composed of 99% dark matter," ...

A potential dark galaxy — one made primarily of dark matter — may have been spotted in the local universe. Dark galaxies are theoretical, starless systems whose discovery could help astronomers better ...

Be careful out there, astronomers: There could be a dark galaxy in our midst. In research published today in Science Advances, researchers from the Chinese National Academy of Sciences discovered that ...

Somewhere beyond 10 billion light-years of empty space, a galaxy that once blazed with the fury of a well-fed supermassive ...

One of the most puzzling findings from the JWST's observations of the early universe is the size of black holes. According to ...

image: Dark Galaxy VIRGOHI 21 has no starlight but radio waves from neutral hydrogen betray its existence. The contours superimposed on this optical image indicate how much gas was detected. This ...

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Dark matter doesn’t emit, absorb, or reflect light. It’s invisible but supposedly makes up 85% of the universe’s mass. Because it’s so abundant, astronomers believe it should explain many unsolved ...

To dark matter and dark energy, add dark galaxies — collections of stars so sparse and faint that they are all but invisible. An artist’s depiction of hydrogen gas observed in the galaxy J0613+52, ...

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