Unraveling the Mysteries of Dark Matter by Taking Its Temperature
Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis, are taking the temperature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about…
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“Cold Dark Matter” Breakthrough As Hubble Detects Smallest Known Dark Matter Clumps
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and a new observing technique, astronomers have found that dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known. This result…
Darkest Galaxies in the Universe Provide New Clues on Dark Matter
A study by Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) provides important information on its composition and on its interaction with luminous matter. They are…
X17: New Subatomic Particle Might Solve the Dark Matter Mystery
A team of scientists in Hungary recently published a paper that hints at the existence of a previously unknown subatomic particle. The team first reported…
Dark Matter May Be Source of Mysterious Gamma Radiation in Center of Milky Way
An abundance of mysterious gamma radiation exists in the center of the Milky Way, called the Galactic Center GeV Excess. Previous research determined that this…
MIT Physicists Believe There’s Dark Matter at the Center of the Milky Way
Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way? A new analysis puts dark matter back in the game as a possible source…
Further Evidence Discovered for Dwarf Galaxies That Are Inexplicably Deficient in Dark Matter
Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), Peking University and Tsinghua University have found a special population of dwarf…
NASA to Unveil the Secrets of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies and Properties of Dark Matter
In two separate studies using NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers will observe dwarf galaxy companions to the Milky Way and…
New Approach in the Hunt for Dark Matter: Antimatter and Penning Traps
Researchers now harnessing antimatter in their search for dark matter. A study that takes a novel approach to the search for dark matter has been…
High-Performance Camera to Help Detect Extraterrestrial Life, Dark Matter Can Count Single Photons
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made one of the highest-performance cameras ever composed of sensors that count single photons,…
Mysteries of Dark Matter and Antimatter May Be Linked
Could the profound mysteries of antimatter and dark matter be linked? Thinking that they might be, scientists from the international BASE collaboration, led by Stefan…
Dark Matter Experiment’s Time Projection Chamber Transported Nearly a Mile Underground
LUX-ZEPLIN experiment’s central detector is successfully moved to its research cavern. Q: How do you get a 5,000-pound, 9-foot-tall particle detector, designed to hunt for…
Unlocking the True Nature of Dark Matter With WFIRST
The true nature of dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Scientists are trying to determine what exactly dark matter is…
An Exotic Analysis Technique Places Another Piece in the Dark Matter Puzzle
PRISMA+ and HIM scientists report the latest findings of the CASPEr research program in Science Advances. A team led by Prof Dmitry Budker has continued…
Revolutionary Way to Search for Elusive Dark Matter: “Hear” It Through “Axion Radio”
Physicists at Stockholm University and the Max Planck Institute for Physics have turned to plasmas in a proposal that could revolutionize the search for the…
Massive Filaments Connect Galaxies and Fuel the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes
An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have used observations from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the…
New ‘Fuzzy’ Dark Matter Simulations Disrupt Conventional Thinking About the Make-Up of the Universe
New research conducted at the University of Sussex has simulated dark matter in a new way for the first time, disrupting conventional thinking about the…
Record Breaking Observations Link Dark Matter to Galaxy Formation
An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen has discovered a protocluster of galaxies 13.0 billion…