Dark matter

Illustration of a black hole with wind flowing from center

Could dark matter be behind mysterious, supermassive black holes in the early universe?

Image of the night sky taken by the Dark Energy Survey, featuring several spiral galaxies and many stars

Dark Energy Survey releases most precise look yet at the universe’s evolution

A qubit (the small rectangle) is set onto a sapphire substrate, which sits upon a fingertip to show scale.

UChicago, Fermilab physicists build a quantum bit that can search for dark matter

Side by side images, one hazy, one sharp with many small points of light

Dark Energy Survey finds new evidence for emerging way to measure dark matter

Image of large detector with honeycomb pattern

Dark matter detector picks up unexplained new signal

Milky Way Groupie Galaxy

‘Groupie’ galaxies orbiting Milky Way tell us about dark matter, how galaxy formed

XENON1T experiment

Scientists measure half-life of element that’s longer than the age of the universe

Dark matter visualization

Scientists invent way to trap mysterious ‘dark world’ particle at Large Hadron Collider

Observatory with stars in background

Dark Energy Survey finds remains of 11 galaxies eaten by the Milky Way

Observatory under red light with Milky Way in background

Dark Energy Survey reveals most precise measure of universe’s structure