Named for the pioneering astrophysicist Vera C. Rubin, whose work confirmed the existence of dark matter, the Vera C. Rubin ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

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A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.

New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...