The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich ...

A team of astronomers used an "Earth-sized super telescope" to detect an object that emits no light, via gravitational ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

The bright outflow jets of J0529 are being fed by a process called Super-Eddington Accretion, where an object exceeds its ...

Astronomers have used a worldwide array of telescopes to spot the smallest dark object ever identified in the universe. Discovering more of these ...

Our planet is no stranger to changes. Ever since the world was formed more than four billion years ago, it has seen a number ...

The object was detected not through any light it emits but by the subtle way its gravity bends light around it, a phenomenon ...

General relativity, our best theory of gravity, predicts that mass bends light. In gravitational lensing, light from a distant object is deflected by an intervening galaxy or cluster of galaxies. By ...

These starless worlds are difficult to find and study, but this particular one is teaching us new lessons about the universe.