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"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...
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How weird is the Milky Way?
By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...
Brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers most stars, so they cool and fade over time. But if they ...
A new study has proposed the existence of a new type of cosmic object that could be hiding at the centre of our galaxy. This ...
A new kind of cosmic object could help solve one of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark matter.Particle Astrophysicists have proposed the ...
Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...
Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...
Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...
The "Hubble tension," one of the most frustrating and lingering problems in science, could be solved if Earth and the Milky ...
Dark matter is one of Nature’s most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it’s real because its mass ...
A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...