NASA’s Fermi telescope has found a gamma-ray halo at the Milky Way’s centre matching predictions for dark-matter annihilation ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open ...