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'Dark stars' existance may have just been validated by the James Webb Telescope

Dark stars are hypothetical types of star that may have existed early in the universe before conventional stars were able to form and thrive

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Major discovery shines new light on the evolution of the universe

Despite making up 85% of the universe and influencing its evolution, dark matter has been hard to detect as it doesn’t interact with light.

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Dark matter is made up of dark photons, study finds

Dark matter could be made up of ultralight dark photons that heated up our universe: this is a new scenario proposed in a recent study.

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Astronomers may have detected the first ‘dark’ free-floating black hole

Astronomers have for the first time discovered what may be a free-floating black hole by observing the brightening of a more distant star.

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What is Dark Data and what can Dark Energy teach us about it?

The more humanity tries to do more with data, the more it’s evident that the most urgent questions won’t get answered easily.

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Scientists discover how galaxies can exist without dark matter

When tiny galaxies collide with bigger ones, the bigger galaxies can strip the smaller galaxies of their dark matter which we can’t see.

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Have we detected dark energy? Scientists say it's a possibility

Unexplained results from the XENON1T experiment may have been caused by dark energy, and not the dark matter the experiment tried to detect.