Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

Astronomers have spent decades hunting for dark matter by looking for light that isn’t ...

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

The object at the Milky Way’s center has long been treated as a settled case: a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* weighing about four million Suns and anchoring the galaxy’s structure. Now ...

For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence ...

On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.

At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...

According to their model, this dark matter would naturally form a two-part structure: an extremely dense central core ...

Long-held assumptions about what lies at the center of the Milky Way could be incorrect, as new international research ...

The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) cosmological simulation. This is the highest resolution simulation of a MW-mass dark matter halo ever ...

A group of US astronomers may have uncovered the first evidence for a dark matter sub-halo lurking just beyond our stellar ...