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The Venue Cymru conference centre on Llandudno seafront, home of the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting 2015. Image credit: Venue Cymru Science writer and editor Kulvinder Singh Chadha presents his third report from the Royal Astronomical...

Last time we saw that while alternative gravity models don’t agree with galactic stellar motion and gravitational lensing, the dark matter model does. While some of that dark matter is likely regular (baryonic) matter such as MACHOs (brown dwarfs, neutron...

Mystery at the sun's south pole: Nasa reveals huge 'coronal hole' on the solar surface where winds reach 500 miles per SECOND Coronal holes are regions of the corona where the magnetic field reaches out into space Particles moving along those magnetic...

Post 6844 Black Holes Might Make Dark Matter Shine by Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer   |   May 14, 2015 07:00am ET An artist’s concept shows a black hole eating material from a nearby star. Researchers say its possible dark matter swirling...

This artist’s impression shows the surroundings of a supermassive black hole, typical of that found at the heart of many galaxies. The black hole itself is surrounded by a brilliant accretion disc of very hot, infalling material and, further out, a dusty...