A new study suggests that decaying dark matter may have helped create the universe’s first supermassive black holes much ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it assumes about 70 percent of the cosmos is filled with an unseen force ...

Only about 5% of the universe is composed of normal matter that we can directly observe, while the remaining 95% is widely ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

As per Universe Today, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) “sits on a telescope high above the Sonoran Desert.” ...

The Dark Energy Survey collaboration is releasing results that, for the first time, combine all of the data from an intensive six-year mapping of galaxies in the universe. The new analysis, of ...

For decades, astronomers have believed that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe, however, a new study suggests they might not exist at all. Instead, what we perceive as dark ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...

The universe may not only be geometry and energy—but also memory. And in that memory, every moment of cosmic history may still be written. For more than a century, physics has been built on two great ...