Atom & Cosmos

Glimmers of dark matter in the Milky Way, galaxies giving birth and more in this week’s news

Glint of the galaxy’s dark matter halo
A faint glow suffusing the sky might arise from dying particles of dark matter, the as-yet-unspotted stuff making up most of the universe’s mass. All galaxies, including the Milky Way, are thought to sit in giant clouds of dark matter.