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Jim Peebles, who first theorized about dark matter, argues in a new essay that there's still a lot of work to be done in proving his ideas.

Revisiting Ideas

"We haven’t been issued a guarantee that we can make sense of the physical world around us."

The Guy Who Invented Dark Matter Has Some Doubts

A research team failed to find a widely-accepted dark matter particle candidate in the Milky Way galaxy, causing a stir among disagreeing astrophysicists.

Controversial Discovery

Either scientists were wrong about dark matter, our galaxy doesn't have any, or the paper is wrong.

Shocking Research Threatens Our Understanding of Dark Matter

Scientists thought they ruled out dark matter as the source of bizarre cosmic gamma rays coming from the core of the Milky Way. New evidence disagrees.

Ongoing Debate

New evidence resuscitated a theory thought to be debunked.

MIT: Dark Matter At Our Galaxy's Core May Be Blasting Gamma Rays

Scientists have a new guess for what triggers white dwarf stars to blow up in supernovae: tiny black holes made of dark matter growing in their cores.

Extremely Metal

The triggers build up at the star's core before exploding.

New Theory: Dark Matter Black Holes Are Detonating Stars

Astronomers discovered 19 new galaxies that appear to be missing their dark matter. The discovery challenges our models of how galaxies form.

Cosmic Mystery

They throw a wrench in the theories for how galaxies are formed.

19 Newly Discovered Galaxies Appear to Be Missing Dark Matter

Researchers have discovered new evidence of a fifth force of nature, and if confirmed, the work could help us understand dark matter.

Force Finding

This could be the key to understanding dark matter.

Physicists Discover Evidence of a New Force of Nature

A team of physicists attempted a bizarre new way to spot dark matter: using antimatter probes. It hasn't worked yet, but the scientists have some ideas.

Exhausting Options

Scientists have a new plan to spot dark matter.

New Research: Antimatter Could Be Portal to "Dark Universe"

Last week, scientists achieved "first light" with the Mayall Telescope's Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. It could teach us about dark energy.

Dark Energy Conundrum

The instrument has the potential to "spark a revolution in theoretical physics."

Scientists Boot Up New Device to Map the Universe's Dark Energy

Scientists just publicly presented the first ever images of the German space agency's (DLR) X-ray telescope eROSITA. And they're magnificent.

Galaxy Snapshot

The new telescope, according to one scientist, is "tracing out the dark matter structure of the Universe."

Here Are The First-Ever Images From the Dark Matter Telescope

Researchers Researchers are suggesting that in the orbit of the Milky Way's sun may be a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.are suggesting that the Sun's orbit might have captured a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.

Sky Dance

In a mind-bending new paper, researchers suggest that there could be black holes orbiting the Sun, out past Pluto.

Astrophysicists: There May Be Black Holes Orbiting Our Sun

Physicists at the Argonne National Lab are about to use the Mira supercomputer to simulate the universe, perhaps helping them find dark energy and matter.

Cosmological Cheat Sheet

The simulation will be the basis for countless future studies.

Scientists Will Use a Supercomputer to Simulate the Universe

New research suggests that dark matter was already there before the Big Bang occurred, altering our understanding of the history of the universe.

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