In a new study published in The Open Journal of Astrophysics, scientists have unveiled a new mapping of the universe’s ...

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For a quarter century, cosmologists have treated dark energy as a fixed, featureless pressure that steadily drives galaxies ...

Recent observational breakthroughs are beginning to challenge the long-standing view of dark energy as unchanging. Data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument ( DESI ), an advanced survey ...

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

Scientists have released a new study that catalogues the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. These clusters are some of the largest known objects in the universe — and they can help ...

Does dark matter interact with itself? The answer may lie in vast clusters of colliding galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

NASA’s new X‑ray images reveal how supermassive black holes sculpt galaxy clusters. Jets, bubbles, and ripples reshape cosmic ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter. First spotted in 2024, FCC 224 is a dwarf galaxy that boasts a dozen luminous, tightly bound ...

This galaxy cluster is nicknamed El Gordo, which means “The Fat One” in Spanish. Located seven billion light-years away, it’s the biggest cluster ever found at that distance — and it’s resounding ...