Dubbed "fuzzy" dark matter, these hypothetical particles are so light that their quantum-wave nature manifests on larger, macroscopic — even galactic — scales. This means they can stabilize ...

A fuzzy form of dark matter may clump up to become the cores of galaxies, according to new research. The traditional dark matter hypothesis, that it's some form of cold, massive particle that ...

A theoretical model for dark matter, called "Fuzzy Dark Matter" (FDM), imprints a characteristic signature on the light that is bent around a massive galaxy (a so-called gravitational lens). By ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought.

Euclid blasted off on its six-year mission to explore the dark universe on 1 July 2023. Before the spacecraft could begin its ...

Recent research in dark matter physics has focused on various models, including fuzzy dark matter (FDM) and vector dark matter (VDM), which propose different properties and behaviors of dark ...

invisible dark stars composed of 'fuzzy' dark matter, which consists of incredibly light particles. This new hypothesis, supported by a recent study, proposes that these dark stars, stretching ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

One possible answer to this problem is that the dark matter particles are incredibly light — billions of times less massive than the neutrino, the lightest particle currently known. Dubbed "fuzzy" ...