Instead of a relatively distant dark galaxy, Westmeier thinks the object is more likely a regular gas cloud at the edge of the Milky Way. “I’m very skeptical about the claims that they’re ...

The bar refers to the characteristic arrangement ... we actually have a fairly good idea of the distribution of the dark ...

That is the Milky Way, our home galaxy, and you can see it best on dark, clear nights in the summer. It contains hundreds of billions of stars, including the sun that we orbit. It also has dust ...

But a smoothly distributed dark matter halo can. Our findings suggest that the centre of the Milky Way may offer new clues about the fundamental nature of dark matter. Future telescopes with ...

But a smoothly distributed dark matter halo can. Our findings suggest that the center of the Milky Way may offer new clues about the fundamental nature of dark matter. Future telescopes with ...

Strange events seen at the very heart of the Milky Way could be smoking gun evidence of a new dark matter suspect. If that is ...

Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way galaxy ... and when you get out beyond the dark halo of a galaxy like ours, the velocities of small galaxies ...