Dark Matter
Dwarf Galaxies Found Without Influence From Dark Matter
Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious "stuff" permeates…
Astronomers Measure the Signal of Dark Matter From 12 Billion Years ago
The most distant measure of dark matter suggests the universe might have behaved differently in the past.
The World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector has Come Online
Individual contributors have become less and less prominent in scientific fields as the discipline itself has matured. Some individuals still…
Gravitational Wave Telescopes Could Detect Clumps of Dark Matter Drifting Through the Solar System
Attempts to directly detect dark matter have come up empty. A team of physicists have proposed a brand new method:…
Dark Stars: The First Stars in the Universe Could Have Been Powered by Annihilating Dark Matter
Dark matter doesn’t really do much of anything in the present-day universe. But in the early days of the cosmos…
Could we Detect Dark Matter’s Annihilation Within Globular Clusters?
A team of astronomers studied two nearby globular clusters, 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri, searching for signals produced by annihilating…
If Axions are Dark Matter, we've got new Hints About Where to Look for Them
A computer simulation of dark matter points to axions being more massive than expected.
A Detailed Simulation of the Universe Creates Structures Very Similar to the Milky Way and its Surroundings
An international team of astrophysicists has created the most accurate simulation of cosmic evolution to date, which reproduced many of…
How Dark Matter Could Be Measured in the Solar System
Dark matter has long been a mystery to astronomers, in no small part because it is so hard to measure…
Finally, an Explanation for the Cold Spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background
A new study by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has confirmed the existence of a Supervoid, which could explain how…