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Dark matter-deficient galaxies
Dark matter-deficient galaxies are galaxies whose measured mass matches their visible stars alone, challenging the expectation that galaxies form within dark matter halos; the first was reported in 2018.
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic is a 2006 first-person action RPG by Arkane Studios and Ubisoft, built on Source engine, starring Sareth in Ashan; praised for physics melee combat, Metacritic 72, no sequel.
Dark Moor
Dark Moor, Spanish symphonic power metal band from Madrid founded by Enrik García in 1993; known for The Hall of the Olden Dreams, The Gates of Oblivion, the Elisa C. Martín and Alfred Romero vocal eras, and 2026 lineup changes.
Dark Night of the Soul
The dark night of the soul is a stage of purification described by sixteenth-century Spanish Carmelite John of the Cross, through which God prepares the soul for union with him.
Dark Nights: Death Metal
Dark Nights: Death Metal is a 2020–2021 seven-issue DC Comics event by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, sequel to Dark Nights: Metal, featuring the Batman Who Laughs, Perpetua, Wonder Woman, twelve tie-in one-shots, and Justice League #53-57.
Dark Nights: Metal
Dark Nights: Metal is DC Comics' 2017–2018 six-issue crossover by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo in which Barbatos and seven evil Batman variants from the Dark Multiverse invade Earth-0, defeated by the Justice League using Tenth Metal.
Dark Nuns (검은 수녀들)
Dark Nuns (검은 수녀들, The Priests 2: Dark Nuns) is a 2025 South Korean occult horror film directed by Kwon Hyeok-jae, a spin-off of The Priests, starring Song Hye-kyo and Jeon Yeo-been as nuns performing a forbidden exorcism; it drew 1.67 million Korean admissions.
Dark Passage (film)
Dark Passage (1947) is a Warner Bros. film noir directed by Delmer Daves, the third Bogart-Bacall film, in which escaped convict Vincent Parry undergoes plastic surgery; its first third uses subjective first-person camera.
Dark Phoenix (film)
Dark Phoenix, also known as X-Men: Dark Phoenix, is a 2019 American superhero film directed by Simon Kinberg, starring Sophie Turner as Jean Grey and the last main-series X-Men film from Fox.
Dark photon
The dark photon, also known as the hidden photon or paraphoton, is a hypothetical gauge boson from a dark sector that kinetically mixes with the ordinary photon.
Dark Places (2015 film)
Dark Places is a 2015 American-British-French crime mystery film directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, starring Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, and Chloë Grace Moretz, adapted from Gillian Flynn's novel.
Dark radiation
Dark radiation is any component of the Universe's radiation energy density made of relativistic particles beyond photons and standard-model neutrinos, measured through the parameter N_eff.
Dark Red (song)
"Dark Red" is a 2017 song by American singer Steve Lacy, recorded entirely on an iPhone, that went viral on TikTok in 2021 and went platinum.
Dark Reign: The Future of War
Dark Reign: The Future of War (aka Dark Reign Redux) is a 1997 sci-fi real-time strategy game by Australia's Auran, published by Activision, pitting Imperium against Freedom Guard; expansion Rise of the Shadowhand followed in 1998.
Dark ride
Dark ride (also ghost train): an indoor amusement ride carrying passengers in guided vehicles, boats, or suspended cars through lit themed scenes with animatronics and effects; originated in late 1800s US amusement parks, patented by Leon Cassidy in 1928.
Dark romance
Dark romance is a romance fiction subgenre defined by darker themes, morally grey characters, taboo relationships, and uneven power dynamics. Emerging in 2010s self-publishing and boosted by BookTok and Haunting Adeline (2021), it drove US romance print sales up 24% in 2025.
Dark romanticism
Dark romanticism is a literary subgenre of Romanticism emphasizing sin, guilt, and human fallibility, associated above all with Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.
Dark scalar
A dark scalar, also called a dark Higgs boson, is a hypothetical particle whose field breaks a hidden gauge symmetry and gives mass to the dark photon.
Dark sector
A dark sector, also called a hidden sector, is a hypothesized set of particles and forces beyond the Standard Model that couple only feebly to known matter.
Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows (1966–1971) is the ABC gothic daytime soap opera created by Dan Curtis, set among the Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, whose 1,225 episodes introduced vampire Barnabas Collins and pioneered supernatural television drama.
Dark Shadows (film)
Dark Shadows is a 2012 American comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp as the vampire Barnabas Collins and adapting the ABC soap opera.
Dark Side of the Ring
Dark Side of the Ring, VICE TV docuseries by Evan Husney and Jason Eisener since April 2019, examines tragic wrestling stories like Bruiser Brody, the Von Erichs, Benoit, and Owen Hart.
Dark Skies (2013 film)
Dark Skies (2013) is a Blumhouse alien-abduction horror film written and directed by Scott Stewart, starring Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, and J.K. Simmons; released February 22, 2013, 97 minutes, $17.4M US gross, 42% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Dark skin
Dark skin: high constitutive eumelanin pigmentation, the ancestral Homo phenotype, evolved in equatorial Africa mainly to protect folate from UV photolysis; large melanosomes, MC1R purifying selection, reduced vitamin D synthesis at equal UVB dose.
Dark Sky Island
Dark Sky Island (ダーク・スカイ・アイランド) is Enya's eighth studio album, released 20 November 2015 after a seven-year gap; inspired by Sark's dark skies, produced by Nicky Ryan with lyrics by Roma Ryan, 11 tracks plus a three-track deluxe edition.
Dark Sky Paradise
Dark Sky Paradise is Big Sean's third studio album, released February 24, 2015 on GOOD Music/Def Jam. His first Billboard 200 number one (173,000 units first week), 2x Platinum, featuring "I Don't Fuck With You."
Dark Souls
Dark Souls (ダークソウル) is FromSoftware's 2011 action RPG directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, a spiritual successor to Demon's Souls set in Lordran, known for bonfires, souls-based death penalties, online co-op and PvP, and spawning the Soulslike genre.
Dark Souls (video game)
Dark Souls is a 2011 action role-playing game by FromSoftware, set in the kingdom of Lordran and known for punishing, deliberate combat and its soulslike legacy.
Dark Souls II (ダークソウルII)
Dark Souls II (ダークソウルII) is FromSoftware's 2014 action RPG set in Drangleic, directed by Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura, released March 2014 on PS3/Xbox 360 and April 25, 2014 on PC, with the Scholar of the First Sin edition (2015) adding DLC, 60fps, and 1–6 player online.
Dark Souls III
Dark Souls III (DARK SOULS III) is FromSoftware's 2016 dark fantasy action RPG for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, set in Lothric, adding weapon arts and Focus Points, scored 89 on Metacritic, with Ashes of Ariandel and The Ringed City expansions.