Rolf Landauer showed that "information is physical" with every bit equivalent to a small amount of energy proportional to ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

Astrophysicists have long been intrigued by the possibility of dark stars-massive celestial objects fueled not by nuclear fusion but by the enigmatic energy of dark matter. Thanks to images taken by ...

A mysterious phenomenon at the centre of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark matter. Dark matter, the mysterious form of unobserved matter which could make up 85% of the mass of ...

This puzzling result makes sense if one assumes that the boundary stars are feeling the gravitational effects of an unseen mass—dark matter—in a halo around the galaxy. Dark matter could also ...

Learning about their diversity could help astronomers compare these supernovas with one another, refining our understanding of dark energy. "The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow ...

Boson stars, theoretical cosmic objects, could solve mysteries of dark matter, constituting 27% of the universe. Invisible yet impactful, their gravitational influence might reshape our cosmic ...

According to our best current theories, the matter that makes stars, planets, and everything we see is just a small fraction of the total matter in the universe. Outweighing this regular matter ...

A binary millisecond pulsar is a pulsar with a short rotation period that orbits another star. "However ... of pulsars we can use to constrain dark matter in the galaxy by rigorously using ...