Every so often, astronomers stumble on a star that seems to ignore the rulebook, forcing them to rethink how the cosmos is ...

Astronomers have long believed that the region around the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is one of the most ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the ...

His analysis points to a possible signal from hypothetical particles known as weakly interacting massive particles. These particles, often called wimps, are a leading candidate for dark matter. They ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

In a recently published study, Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo's astronomy department claims to have observed ...

Scientists have detected an unusual gamma-ray halo around our Milky Way galaxy. This signal, observed by NASA's Fermi ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...