Deep space has just delivered a cosmic curveball: an object that behaves so strangely it appears to break the rules astronomers use to describe how the universe grew up. The discovery centers on an ...

The universe has a knack for throwing curveballs at astronomers. Just when scientists think they’ve got cosmic mechanics figured out, space reveals something so bizarre it rewrites the rulebook. These ...

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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, ...

(Nanowerk News) Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich tapestry of stars and galaxies we see in the night sky evolved.

A mysterious object found deep in the cosmos could soon have astronomers rethinking what they know about dark matter. That's according to a team of researchers who turned to a global network of ...