New Research Finds That Supermassive Black Holes Could Form From Dark Matter
A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that rather…
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Dark Matter Explained by Extra Dimension in Spacetime and a New Heavy Particle Similar to the Higgs Boson?
An international team of scientists proposes a new heavy particle with properties similar to those of the Higgs boson. Unlike the Higgs boson, discovered at…
X-Ray Emission From Mysterious Dark Matter
About eighty-five percent of the matter in the cosmos emits neither light nor any other known kind of radiation as far as is known, and…
Light From Inside Galaxy Clusters May Be Linked With Mysterious Form of Matter
Dark Energy Survey Finds New Evidence for Emerging Way to Measure Dark Matter Scientists may have found another way to measure the distribution of dark…
Physicists Surprise Discovery: Intracluster Light May Provide a New Way to Measure Dark Matter
A combination of observational data and sophisticated computer simulations have yielded advances in a field of astrophysics that has languished for half a century. The…
Searching for Dark Matter Through the Fifth Dimension – New Theoretical Physics Discovery to Help Unravel the Mysteries of Dark Matter
Theoretical physicists of the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) are working on a theory that goes beyond the Standard Model of…
Extended Dark Matter Halo Detected Around Ancient Dwarf Galaxy – “First Signature of Galactic Cannibalism”
Findings suggest the first galaxies in the universe were more massive than previously thought. The Milky Way is surrounded by dozens of dwarf galaxies that…
Science Made Simple: What Is Dark Matter?
Dark matter accounts for five times as much of the universe as ordinary matter. However, we know little about it other than that it only…
How Heavy Is Dark Matter? For the First Time Scientists Radically Narrow the Potential Mass Range
Scientists have calculated the mass range for Dark Matter – and it’s tighter than the science world thought. Their findings – due to be published…
Physicists Search for Axions – Hypothetical Dark Matter Particles – From Nearby Star Betelgeuse
Search for Axions From Nearby Star Betelgeuse Comes Up Empty Results significantly narrow the range of possible places to find the hypothetical dark matter particles….
Physicists May Have Found Dark Matter: X-rays Surrounding “Magnificent 7” May Be Traces of Theorized Particle
Researchers say they may have found proof of theorized axions, and possibly dark matter, around a group of neutron stars. A new study, led by…
The Universe Is Getting Hot, Hot, Hot – Temperature Has Increased 10-Fold Over the Last 10 Billion Years
The universe is getting hotter, a new study has found. The study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, probed the thermal history of the universe over the…
Milky Way’s Dark Side Revealed by Measurements of Pulsar Acceleration
It is well known that the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to a mysterious dark energy. Within galaxies, stars also experience an acceleration,…
Looking for Axion Dark Matter Particles Near Neutron Stars With Radio Telescopes
In the 1970s, physicists uncovered a problem with the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory that describes three of the four fundamental forces of nature…
New, More Precise Atomic Clock Could Help Detect Dark Matter and Study Gravity’s Effect on Time
The new atomic clock design, which uses entangled atoms, could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity’s effect on time. Atomic clocks are the…
What if Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist? Unique Prediction of “Modified Gravity” Challenges Dark Matter Hypothesis
Team of international collaborators detect ‘external field effect,’ a prediction unique to MOND, rival dark matter hypothesis. An international group of scientists, including Case Western…
A Hint of New Physics Observed in Polarized Radiation From the Early Universe
Using Planck data from the cosmic microwave background radiation, an international team of researchers has observed a hint of new physics. The team developed a…
Pizza Can Help Address the Dark Matter Mystery, Point to New Physics Beyond the Standard Model?
A cavity partitioned into multiple identical cells provides a highly efficient path to high-frequency axion dark matter searches. Despite its vanishingly tiny mass, the existence…