What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

Spiral galaxies don’t rotate like solid disks — if they did, their arms would wind themselves into tight spirals and disappear. Instead, stars pass through vast density waves while mysterious dark ...

Saul Hernandez, a New Mexico State University senior studying physics and linguistics with a minor in astronomy, has turned ...

New research suggests that the core of our galaxy may not be a supermassive black hole, but a colossal clump of dark matter.