541 Results From "dark matter"

A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way.
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Scientists Claim to Detect Dark Matter for the First Time Ever

Scientists want to build a new type of detector they liken to a "cosmic car radio," that could listen to what the dark matter is saying.
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Scientists Say Dark Matter May Be Giving Off a Signal

The mysterious dark matter "bridge" found inside the Perseus cluster could reveal key details about the cluster's evolution.
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Scientists Intrigued by Bridge of Dark Matter Inside Huge Galaxy Cluster

Clumps of dark matter may actually be interacting with light just a teensy bit, enough to dim the light of stars it passes in front of.
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Astronomers Suggest That Entire Stars Are Being Obscured by Giant “Lampshades” of Dark Matter

Astronomers say that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe's first "dark stars" that are fuelled by dark matter.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Appears to Have Spotted “Dark Star” Powered by Dark Matter, Paper Claims

Recent research proposes a new form of dark matter that may actually be lighter in mass than other dark matter candidates.
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Scientists Find Evidence of a New Form of Dark Matter Swirling at Center of Our Galaxy

Their mapping of dark matter confirms the discrepancies between observations of the universe's structures and our theoretical models of them.
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Scientists Analyzing Deep Space “Forest” to Map Dark Matter

Researchers suggest we should hunt for an ultralight dark matter candidate in the Earth's ionosphere, a "long shot."
Science & Energy

The Earth May Be Swimming Through Dark Matter, Scientists Say

Chinese scientists have opened the deepest and largest underground lab in the world to study dark matter particles.
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China Opens Huge Underground Dark Matter Lab

Does dark matter reside in a deformed mirror universe of our own, where rules are different and atoms failed to form?
Physics

Dark Matter May Be a Deformed Mirror Universe, Scientists Say

A controversial new paper suggests the universe is twice as old as current models suggest and that dark matter doesn't exist.
Science & Energy

New Paper Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist at All

Scientists in Europe are gearing up for the much-anticipated launch of Euclid, a telescope designed to track dark matter.
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Europe Is About to Launch a Dark Matter-Hunting Spacecraft

Astronomers believe they've spotted three objects known as dark stars originating just hundreds of years after the Big Bang.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Appears to Have Spotted Weird Stars Powered by Dark Matter

By observing companion stars orbiting black holes, scientists may have gathered indirect proof that black holes accrete massive clumps of dark matter.
Black Holes

Black Holes May Be Engulfed In Dark Matter, Scientists Find

There may be planets made up of dark matter with their own bizarre physics, a group of scientist argue in a new study: and they might know how to find them.
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Physicists Say There May Be Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter

Elon Musk has chimed in and has decreed that the universe is "possibly" twice as old as we think it is. Make of that what you will.
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Elon Musk Says Universe May Be Twice as Old as We Think, Dark Matter Seems “Sketch”

Astronomers have detected a mysterious dark object in the distant universe. It could be dark matter, or it could be something else.
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Astronomers Detect Mysterious Dark Object in Distant Galaxy

New research suggests that large planets can accumulate enough black matter in their cores to spawn a destructive black hole.
Black Holes

Scientists Say Black Holes Could Form Inside Planets, Leading to Absolute Catastrophe

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.
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Astronomers Ponder Strange Glow Coming From the Heart of Our Galaxy

Researchers claim to have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to discover an entirely new type of celestial object: dubbed "Cloud-9."
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Scientists Weirded Out by Cosmic Bones in Distant Space