Dark Matter
Primordial Stars Frozen Indefinitely by Dark Matter
It is thought that primordial or "Population III" stars were born in dense clouds of dark matter, 100 million years…
Could Dark Matter be the Root Cause of Flyby Anomalies?
When space probes Galileo, Rosetta, NEAR and Cassini carried out Earth flyby manoeuvre, scientists measured a bizarre and unpredictable jumps…
Digging for Dark Matter: The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Detector
How do you catch a WIMP? No, I'm not talking about bullying the weakest kid in class, I'm talking about…
Galactic Ghosts Haunt Their Killers
The title may sound dramatic, but it is very descriptive. New observations of two galaxies have shown huge streams of…
A Case of MOND Over Dark Matter
According to Newton's Second Law of Dynamics, objects on the farthest edges of galaxies should have lower velocities than objects…
Old Galaxies Stick Together In A Young Universe
Can appearances be deceiving? According to the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT), galaxies that appear old in our Universe's early…
Greedy Supermassive Black Holes Dislike Dark Matter
It is widely accepted that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) sit in the centre of elliptical galaxies or bulges of spiral…
That Dark Stuff, Matter and Energy
Being a very hands-on-type person, I have a hard time wrapping my brain around the concepts of dark energy and…
Record Breaking “Dark Matter Web” Structures Observed Spanning 270 Million Light Years Across
It is well documented that dark matter makes up the majority of the mass in our universe. The big problem…
Bubble Experiment Fails to Find Dark Matter
Astronomers have no idea what dark matter is, but they have a few guesses. Since they can't see the stuff…