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New research suggests that large planets can accumulate enough black matter in their cores to spawn a destructive black hole.

Scientists Say Black Holes Could Form Inside Planets, Leading to Absolute Catastrophe

By Frank Landymore

Clumps of dark matter may actually be interacting with light just a teensy bit, enough to dim the light of stars it passes in front of.

Astronomers Suggest That Entire Stars Are Being Obscured by Giant “Lampshades” of Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have made an intriguing discovery that could upend everything we know about the structure of the universe and its expansion.

Scientists Say That Something Very Weird Is Going on With the Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb" — an ominous-sounding concept that dates back to the late 1960s.

Scientists Say They’ve Built a “Black Hole Bomb”

By Victor Tangermann

The mysterious dark matter "bridge" found inside the Perseus cluster could reveal key details about the cluster's evolution.

Scientists Intrigued by Bridge of Dark Matter Inside Huge Galaxy Cluster

By Frank Landymore

Scientists want to build a new type of detector they liken to a "cosmic car radio," that could listen to what the dark matter is saying.

Scientists Say Dark Matter May Be Giving Off a Signal

By Victor Tangermann

The latest observations of a survey of millions of galaxies indicate that dark energy, which drives the universe's expansion, is changing.

An Important Force of the Universe Appears to Be Changing, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Recent research proposes a new form of dark matter that may actually be lighter in mass than other dark matter candidates.

Scientists Find Evidence of a New Form of Dark Matter Swirling at Center of Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Scientists say they've uncovered the "largest known galactic structure" — a cosmic monster that spans a mind-boggling 1.4 billion light-years.

Scientists Intrigued by Galactic Structure That’s 1.4 Billion Light-Years Wide

By Victor Tangermann

If there's a fifth force of physics to round out the Standard Model, asteroids may be our best bet of discovering its underlying particle.

Mysterious “Fifth Force” of Physics Could Be Influencing Asteroids Near Earth

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least once a decade.

Science & Energy

Scientists Suggest Tiny Black Holes Are Regularly Cruising Through Our Star System

By Victor Tangermann

An astrophysicist's TikTok video about gas in galaxy clusters went viral – but because kids were looking for a different kind of galaxy gas.

Astrophysicist Surprised to Learn Why Her TikTok on “Galaxy Gas” Was Suddenly Blowing Up

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Their mapping of dark matter confirms the discrepancies between observations of the universe's structures and our theoretical models of them.

Scientists Analyzing Deep Space “Forest” to Map Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Researchers suggest that invisible masses may be passing in front of pulsars, temporarily blocking their light pulses.

Massive, Mysterious Objects Detected Floating Through Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

Stars at the Milky Way's center stay young forever, scientists claim, by feeding off dark matter particles that are abundant there.

Something Strange Appears to Be Powering “Immortal” Stars at the Center of Our Galaxy

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers suggest we should hunt for an ultralight dark matter candidate in the Earth's ionosphere, a "long shot."

Science & Energy

The Earth May Be Swimming Through Dark Matter, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann