The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Dark matter could be made of particles that each weigh almost as much as a human cell and are nearly dense enough to become miniature black holes, new research suggests. While dark matter is thought ...

Ah, dark matter. Creator of the universe, sculptor of galaxies, great brewer of coffee (probably). There seems to be nothing it can’t do, or isn’t responsible for, but there’s just one problem: Where ...

According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions ...

For decades, scientists have searched for the invisible mass that seems to hold galaxies together — yet no one has ever ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and author of "How to Die in Space." Sutter contributed this article to ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

An illustration conveying the idea of a space-based quantum internet, which would seem, like the hypothetical particle of a tachyon, to outpace light. An illustration ...

A new theory says dark matter acts remarkably similar to subatomic particles known to science since the 1930s. A new theory says dark matter acts remarkably similar to subatomic particles known to ...

Using the model, they prove mathematically and computationally that the dark matter consists of a neutral particle much heavier than a proton. “This Insight into the particle nature of dark matter ...

The universe has cooked up all sorts of bizarre and beautiful forms of matter, from blazing stars to purring cats, out of just three basic ingredients. Electrons and two types of quarks, dubbed “up” ...