"It highlights gravity's possible hidden complexity and invites a reevaluation of where dark matter effects originate." ...

From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have watched galaxies spin and the universe expand in ways that visible matter alone cannot explain. The dominant answer has been dark matter, an unseen substance ...

University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of measuring the universe’s gravitational wave background—the constant flow of waves that churn through the cosmos, ...

When black holes need a place to crash, they prefer a nice, bright quasar. So says Chiara Mingarelli, an assistant professor of physics in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a key member of an ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

Breakthroughs in science often begin with a simple question and years of tireless exploration. From the way tiny molecules slip through microscopic pores to the staggering behavior of matter near ...