Dark-Matter “Light Through the Wall” Experiment Makes Progress
All ALPS Magnets Installed in the HERA Accelerator Tunnel DESY’s “light through the wall experiment” ALPS II is taking shape. ALPS, short for “Any Light…
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A New Way to Search for Dark Matter Particles Reveals Hidden Materials Properties
New research from Chalmers, together with ETH Zürich, Switzerland, suggests a promising way to detect elusive dark matter particles through previously unexplored atomic responses occurring…
New Theory for the Origin of Dark Matter
A recent study from the University of Melbourne proposes a new theory for the origin of dark matter, helping experimentalists in Australia and abroad in…
Dark Matter: A Billion Tiny Pendulums Could Detect the Universe’s Missing Mass
Researchers have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed…
Solved: The Puzzle of the Strange Galaxy Made of 99.99% Dark Matter
At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of a ubiquitous, but mysterious component, termed dark matter. Astronomers have measure…
Extremely Powerful Cosmic “Dark Matter Detector” Probed by Astrophysicist
A University of Colorado at Boulder astrophysicist is searching the light coming from a distant, and extremely powerful celestial object, for what may be the…
Astrophysicists Detect Difference Between How Dark Matter Behaves in Theory and How It Appears to Act in Reality
The universe’s funhouse mirrors are revealing a difference between how dark matter behaves in theory and how it appears to act in reality. Dark matter…
Dark Matter Surplus Captured by Hubble
Resting on the tail of the Great Bear in the constellation of Ursa Major, lies NGC 5585, a spiral galaxy that is more than it…
Hubble Uncovers an Unexpected Discrepancy: An Ingredient Missing From Current Dark Matter Theories?
Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have found that something may be missing…
Hubble’s Shocking Dark Matter Discovery: Observations Suggest a Missing Ingredient in Cosmic Recipe
Astronomers have discovered that there may be a missing ingredient in our cosmic recipe of how dark matter behaves. Astronomers have uncovered a discrepancy between…
New Theory About the Nature of Dark Matter Explains Mysterious Deficiency in Galaxy Pair
UC Riverside-led study found self-interacting dark matter theory explains why two galaxies have less dark matter than others. A new theory about the nature of…
Structures for Large and Small Dark Matter Halos Revealed
Most of the matter in the Universe is dark and thus not directly observable. In results just published in the journal Nature, an international research…
Zooming In on Dark Matter Haloes
Most matter in the Universe is dark and completely different in nature from the matter that makes up stars, planets and people. Galaxies form and…
Zooming In Tight on Dark Matter – Equivalent of Being Able to See a Flea on the Surface of the Moon
Cosmologists have zoomed in on the smallest clumps of dark matter in a virtual universe — which could help us to find the real thing…
Dark Matter Destruction Ruled Out As Origin of Extra Radiation in Milky Way’s Galactic Center
Exhaustive emissions modeling by global physicists narrows down particle candidates. The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope of…
Neutron Star Extreme Matter Observatory (NEMO) – Building a $100M Black Hole Detector
A new study makes a compelling case for the development of “NEMO”—a new observatory in Australia that could deliver on some of the most exciting…
Jetting Into the Dark Side: ATLAS’ Precision Search for Dark Matter
The nature of dark matter remains one of the great unsolved puzzles of fundamental physics. Unexplained by the Standard Model, dark matter has led scientists…
Dark Matter Breakthrough Allows Probing Three of the Most Popular Theories, All at the Same Time
Observations of dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way have yielded simultaneous constraints on three popular theories of dark matter. A team of scientists led by…