Unsolved Questions In Astronomy? Try Dark Matter!

Unsolved Questions In Astronomy? Try Dark Matter!

Sometimes in fantasy fiction, you don’t want to explain something that seems inexplicable, so you throw your hands up and say, “A wizard did it.” Sometimes in astronomy, instead of a wizard, the answer is dark matter (DM). If you are interested in astronomy, you’ve probably heard that dark matter solves the problem of the “missing mass” to explain galactic light curves, and the motion of galaxies in clusters. Now [Pedro De la Torre Luque] and ot…

Could Dark Matter Be Behind Early Supermassive Black Holes?

A surprising new theory suggests that dark matter black holes may have formed directly in the early universe—without the need for stars to die first. Recent astronomical observations, especially from the James Webb Space Telescope, have puzzled scientists by revealing colossal black holes just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, researchers believe dark matter might have played a key role in their sudden emergence. A Cosmic Myst…

Did Dark Matter Shape the Massive Black Holes of the Early Universe?

A groundbreaking study, published in March 2025 on the preprint server arXiv, reveals that ultralight dark matter might have played a pivotal role in the formation of supermassive black holes in the early universe. The Mystery of Early Supermassive Black Holes In the early universe, scientists have discovered black holes that are billions of times more massive than our Sun, appearing just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. This is a…