Dark matter, the elusive search: Latest discoveries and news
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![Wisps of dark orange stretch across a swath of space with a bright light at its center. The waving gas forms an image like a magic carpet in flight.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eZfQRN454baWewMXpLkNfL-320-80.jpg)
Dusty galaxy looks like a cosmic net in gorgeous new Hubble Telescope photo
By Samantha Mathewson published
A striking new Hubble Telescope photo highlights the intricacies of a distant galaxy glowing with a bright white core surrounded by complex dust structures.
![Over 4200 light-years away, this cosmic butterfly takes an odd two-lobed shape.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/URNvwnM7hHSGEe78GND3qi-320-80.jpg)
Giant 'rogue waves' of invisible matter might be disrupting the orbits of stars, new study hints
By Paul Sutter published
New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space's most confounding substance — dark matter.
![an illustrated image in a medieval style. A sun with nonplussed face exuding yellow throughout half the image. A tree grows just right of middle at the bottom, with a red-robed person crawling on the ground.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zw6wiHKooPW2FJSVsmAqHB-320-80.jpg)
Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy
By Henk Hoekstra published
Clumps of dark matter reveal their presence by distorting the shapes of more distant galaxies, just like waves on the surface of a swimming pool distort the pattern of tiles on the bottom.
![A purple, sort of flaring-up star is seen on the left and on the right are bright tendrils representing dark matter distribution.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HK66gUtUcyc8vCYULvaqo-320-80.png)
Across the universe, dark matter annihilation could be warming up dead stars
By Robert Lea published
Neutron stars could act as gravitational traps for dark matter, forcing these mysterious particles to collide, annihilate and warm up otherwise cold dead stars.
![a big ole galaxy with a handful of thin light streams jetting in various directions](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TLAqW6ft7z2wjS4rbKfJga-320-80.jpg)
Mysterious dark matter may leave clues in 'strings of pearls' trailing our galaxy
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
Starting in late 2025, the Vera C. Rubin observatory will image the outskirts of our galaxy in search of dark matter clues.
![In the field of one of JWST's largest-area surveys, COSMOS-Web, an Einstein ring was discovered around a compact, distant galaxy. It turns out to be the most distant gravitational lens ever discovered by a few billion light-years.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JCxsoVAh2S6BxpFnjccEif-320-80.jpg)
Exotic 'Einstein ring' suggests that mysterious dark matter interacts with itself
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
The unexplained mass of a remarkably massive galaxy suggests that dark matter interacts with itself, according to new observations by the James Webb Space Telescope.
![Lots of small black holes of varying sizes against a hazy blue and purple background of space.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XsaWoUNwD2os4gADQgB6gd-320-80.png)
Tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang may be prime dark matter suspects
By Robert Lea published
Don't rule out primordial black holes as dark matter suspects just yet! Particle-sized black holes may resist evaporation, surviving long enough to account for the universe's most mysterious stuff.
![illustration showing a conical silver object against a gray and black background](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YrgCkSuM7ZqNkuBDBLGUTU-320-80.png)
Ambitious new dark matter-hunting experiment delivers 1st results
By Robert Lea published
The new BREAD experiment, which was designed to search the cosmos for mysterious dark matter, has returned its first results.
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