Black Holes Only Contain Small Percentage of the Universe’s Dark Matter
For one brief shining moment after the 2015 detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, astronomers held out hope that the universe’s mysterious dark…
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Galactic Test Set To Clarify the Existence of Dark Matter
Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University of California at Irvine used sophisticated computer simulations to devise a test that could answer a…
New Model Proposes That Dark Matter Carries an Electric Charge
Astronomers have proposed a new model for the invisible material that makes up most of the matter in the Universe. They have studied whether a…
Astronomers Continue to Unravel the Mystery of the Universe’s Missing Matter
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory have probed the gas-filled haloes around galaxies in a quest to find ‘missing’ matter thought to reside there, but…
Is Dark Matter Composed of Primordial Black Holes?
Astronomers studying the motions of galaxies and the character of the cosmic microwave background radiation came to realize in the last century that most of…
Astrophysicists Are Unlocking the Secrets to Dark Matter
University of Miami astrophysicist Nico Cappelluti studies the sky. An assistant professor in the Physics Department, Cappelluti is intrigued by the cosmic phenomena of super…
ADMX Breakthrough in Axion Dark Matter Detection Technology
New result draws on 30 years of research and development and begins the definitive search for axion particles. Forty years ago, scientists theorized a new…
New Research Shows Dark Matter Might Not Be Interactive After All
Astronomers are back in the dark about what dark matter might be, after new observations showed the mysterious substance may not be interacting with forces…
Astrophysicists Create New Method to Measure Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies
Astrophysicists from the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh have created a new method to measure the amount of dark matter at the…
Hubble Telescope Discovers A Galaxy With No Dark Matter
Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. You typically don’t find one without the other. Therefore, researchers were surprised when they…
DarkSide-20k Will Push the Search for WIMP Dark Matter to New Levels
University of Houston scientists are helping to develop a technology that could hold the key to unraveling one of the great mysteries of science: what…
Astronomers Use New Data to Create Extraordinary Dark Matter Map
A research team of multiple institutes, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and University of Tokyo, released an unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter…
First Stars Reveal Possible Interaction Between Baryons and Dark-Matter Particles
A team of astronomers led by Prof. Judd Bowman of Arizona State University unexpectedly stumbled upon “dark matter,” the most mysterious building block of outer…
nEDM Experiment Imposes Limits on the Interactions of Axions With Nucleons
If they existed, axions – one of the candidates for particles of the mysterious dark matter – could interact with the matter forming our world,…
Unusual X-Ray Lines Provide New Clues on the Nature of Dark Matter
Dark matter is increasingly puzzling. Around the world, physicists have been trying for decades to determine the nature of these matter particles, which do not…
Observations of Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe Reveal Rare Dark-Matter Haloes
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter-diameter telescope in the Antarctic that has been operating at millimeter- and submillimeter-waves for a decade; the CfA…
Oldest Stars in the Galaxy Provide Clues to Dark Matter
Just how quickly is the dark matter near Earth zipping around? The speed of dark matter has far-reaching consequences for modern astrophysical research, but this…
Hitomi, XMM-Newton and Chandra Provide a New Twist in the Dark Matter Tale
An innovative interpretation of X-ray data from a cluster of galaxies could help scientists fulfill a quest they have been on for decades: determining the…