Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence, astronomers say. They ...

Left: Gas distribution of ionized carbon (C+) on the halo scale of P009-10 as shown by the color image and black contours. Nuclear gas distribution, centered on the quasar (large black cross), is ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

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A recent study by Rajendra Gupta, published in "Galaxies," proposes that cosmic phenomena conventionally ascribed to dark matter and dark energy can be explained by the temporal weakening of ...