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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a ...
Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...
"We will push the limits of what we can observe, and use every gravitational lens we detect with Roman to pin down the ...
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2027, would focus on possibly 160,000 gravitational lenses, of which ...
A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...
“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, the international research team estimated that “Roman” may be able to ...
For decades, scientists have been searching for the universe's elusive "missing matter," and now they say they finally found ...
Everything in space – from the Earth and Sun to black holes – accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe . The rest ...
How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.