Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of gravity. The discovery is an important step toward the observation of dark matter ...

In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever discovered through gravitational lensing. This breakthrough provides significant ...

The study is published in the latest issue of The American Journal of Physics ("All objects and some questions"). Masses, sizes, and relative densities of objects in our Universe. (© The American ...

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A compelling new theory of the creation of our universe suggests that it may ...

Astronomers have identified what could be the brightest, most luminous object in the universe — a quasar that emits light 500 trillion times more intense than that of our sun. Quasars are dazzling ...

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