Dark Matter

A New Study Reveals How Dark Matter Dominated the Early Universe

During the 1970s, while probing distant galaxies to determine their mass, size, and other characteristics, astronomers noticed something interesting. When…

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Our Best Look at the Cosmic Web

At first glance the large scale structure of the Universe may seem to be a swarming mass of unconnected galaxies.…

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Communicating with Gravitational Waves

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe. Before…

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Vera Rubin Completes its Comprehensive System Tests

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, previously known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), will be the first observatory of…

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Dark Matter Can’t Be Too Heavy

Dark matter may have to go on a diet, according to new research. (more…)

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Galaxy Cores May be Giant Fuzzy Dark Stars

A fuzzy form of dark matter may clump up to become the cores of galaxies, according to new research. (more…)

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LIGO Has Detected Unusual Black Holes Merging, But they Probably Don’t Explain Dark Matter

The traditional theory of black hole formation seems to struggle to explain how black holes can merge into larger more…

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IceCube Just Spent 10 Years Searching for Dark Matter

Neutrinos are tricky little blighters that are hard to observe. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica was built to detect…

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High Velocity Clouds Comprise Less of the Milky Way’s Mass Than We Thought

A survey of high velocity clouds in the galactic halo of the Milky Way finds that they make up less…

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Using Jupiter as a Dark Matter Detector

The nature of dark matter has been a hotly debated topic for decades. If it’s a heavy, slow moving particle…

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