A team of astronomers has, for the first time, "weighed" dark matter haloes surrounding actively feeding supermassive black holes in the bright hearts of ancient galaxies. These black hole-powered ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to pave a path for the eventual discovery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's depiction shows how brief, bright bursts of radio waves travel through the fog between galaxies, known as the ...

Scientists may have found another way to measure the distribution of dark matter. In a surprise finding, physicists from the Dark Energy Survey announced new evidence on the link between light and ...

Ordinary matter – basically, anything other than dark matter – makes up about 15% of all matter. But half of it has long been missing. Powerful bursts of radio waves emanating from 69 locations in the ...

Scientists can’t yet see dark matter, but they may soon be able to measure it in a fascinating new way. The stuffy-sounding Monthly Notices on the Royal Astronomical Society journal has published an ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A top goal in cosmology is to precisely measure the total amount of matter in the universe, a daunting exercise for even the most mathematically proficient. A team led by ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, to help them track down some of the missing matter in the universe. But the ...