Black aurorae are a mysterious phenomena, creating dark rings, shadowy waves, and black blobs that contrast with the glowing colors of the Northern and Southern Lights. Look closely or you might ...

One could argue that cosmologists had made little progress in our understanding of these basic facts since the discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the Big Bang, in the ...

Physicists call the dark energy that drives the universe “the cosmological constant.” Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over ...

Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Read what astronomers are discovering about a gaping hole in the universe, how dark matter clumps contribute to galaxy formation and more. Space images.

Then we see images at specific wavelengths: 551 nanometers (blue), 831 nm (green), and 848 nm (red); note that the colors are only indicative, for display purposes. The dark spot is most prominent ...

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But dark matter will bend, or lens, background light, and this is how its whereabouts was mapped by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Webb telescope 'fingerprints' earliest galaxies Gaia ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be ...