Dark Matter: Latest on the Search for an Invisible Substance That Permeates the Galaxy
Shining New Light on Dark Matter: Kathryn Zurek talks about the ongoing search for an invisible substance that permeates the galaxy. About 80 percent of…
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Dark Matter Decay Ruled Out as Source of Mysterious Electromagnetic Signals Detected From Nearby Galaxies
Eighty-five percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, but we don’t know what, exactly, it is. A new study from the University of…
First High Sensitivity Dark Matter Axion Hunting Results From CAPP-8TB Haloscope
IBS Researchers Raising Their Flag in the Axion Dark Matter Field Researchers at the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP), within the Institute…
Colossal Dark Matter Halos Surround Massive Galaxies
About eighty-five percent of the matter in the universe is in the form of dark matter, whose nature remains a mystery, and the rest is…
Astronomers Map Dark Matter Filaments Holding Universe Together With Some Help From Slime Mold
Feasting Behavior of Brainless Organisms Shows Astronomers Where to Point the Hubble Telescope A simple single-cell organism that may be growing on your lawn is…
Sub-Atomic Particle Identified That Could Have Formed “Dark Matter”
Scientists shed light on mystery of dark matter. Scientists have identified a sub-atomic particle that could have formed the “dark matter” in the Universe during…
Visualizing Dark Matter With the Biggest Astronomy Collaboration Ever
How can you see something that’s invisible? Well, with Euclid! This future ESA telescope will map the structure of the Universe and teach us more…
How Would Galaxies Form in a Universe Without Dark Matter? Researchers Find Out
A study by the University of Bonn simulates a universe in which Newton’s laws are only valid to a limited extent. For the first time,…
Self-Destruction of Dark Matter May Contribute to Cosmic Gamma-Ray Glow
Matching up maps of matter and light from the Dark Energy Survey and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may help astrophysicists understand what causes a faint…
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…
“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…