HYPER (HighlY Interactive ParticlE Relics) – A New Model for Dark Matter
Phase transition in early universe changes strength of interaction between dark and normal matter. Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics….
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New Study Suggests Dark Matter May Be Made of Dark Photons
The hypothetical new particles could potentially account for the observations made by the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. According to a new…
New Study Significantly Narrows Search for Elusive Dark Matter Particles
An international research team has made significant progress in the search for dark matter with the use of a precision experiment developed at the University…
Search for Dark Matter: Antihelium Nuclei As Messengers From the Depths of the Galaxy
New findings lay the foundation for the search for dark matter. How are galaxies born, and what holds them together? Astronomers assume that dark matter…
New Measurements of Galaxy Rotation Lean Towards Modified Gravity as an Explanation for Dark Matter
Although dark matter is a central part of the standard cosmological model, it’s not without its issues. There continue to be nagging mysteries about the…
Atomic Clocks in Space: The New Trick for Uncovering the Secrets of Dark Matter
Studying an atomic clock on-board a spacecraft inside the orbit of Mercury and very near to the Sun might be the trick to uncovering the…
U.S. Dept of Energy Breakthrough: Detecting Dark Matter With Quantum Computers
Dark matter makes up about 27% of the matter and energy budget in the universe, but scientists do not know much about it. They do…
Supernova Explosions Reveal Precise Details of Dark Energy and Dark Matter
An analysis of more than two decades’ worth of supernova explosions convincingly boosts modern cosmological theories and reinvigorates efforts to answer fundamental questions. A powerful…
Dark Matter Halos of Newly Discovered Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies Are “Very Odd”
A University of California, Riverside physicist explains. In a study co-led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside and the University of California, Irvine,…
New Discoveries Could Reveal the Nature of Dark Matter
The dozens of newly identified gravitational lenses could also reveal ancient galaxies. Earlier this year, a machine learning algorithm detected up to 5,000 possible gravitational…
Scientists Detect a Neighboring Galaxy Filled With Dark Matter
Researchers have used gamma rays to detect a small neighboring galaxy. According to a new study recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy, an international…
Scientists Uncover New Physics in the Search for Dark Matter
No, scientists still have no idea what dark matter is. However, MSU scientists helped discover new physics while searching for it. Wolfgang “Wolfi” Mittig and Yassid…
Physicists Have Built a Quantum Heat Pump To Detect Dark Matter
Quantum Heat Pump: A New Measuring Tool for Physicists Physicists have built a quantum scale heat pump made from particles of light. This device brings…
Further Back in Time Than Ever Before: Distribution of Dark Matter Around Galaxies 12 Billion Years Ago Revealed
Scientists investigated the nature of dark matter surrounding galaxies seen as they were 12 billion years ago, billions of years further back in time than…
Physicists Have Developed a Method for Predicting the Composition of Dark Matter
A new analysis offers an innovative means to predict ‘cosmological signatures’ for models of dark matter. A method for predicting the composition of dark matter…
Dark Matter: Is a Revolution Coming to Physics?
What is dark matter? It has never been observed, yet scientists estimate that it makes up 85% of the matter in the universe. The short…
Success! First Results From World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector
Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility An innovative and uniquely sensitive dark matter detector –…
Dark Matter May Not Exist: These Physicists Favor of a New Theory of Gravity
Using Newton’s laws of physics, we can model the motions of planets in the Solar System quite accurately. However, in the early 1970s, scientists discovered…
