The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

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Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Astronomers discover a low-mass dark object through gravitational lensing and multiple radiotelescopes across Earth.

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They call it dark matter—an invisible substance thought to make up most of the universe’s mass, sculpting galaxies and clusters with its gravity. Now, researchers say they have spotted the smallest ...

Dark matter, the substance that makes up about 27% of the universe, could potentially be detected as a red or blue light ...

Using a rare Einstein ring and the power of global radio telescopes, scientists caught the invisible substance bending space ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...