Dark Matter
Guest Post: The Cosmic Energy Inventory
[/caption] Now that the old year has drawn to a close, it's traditional to take stock. And why not think…
Video: Nobel Prize Winner Explains The Expanding Universe
In this video Saul Perlmutter, one of the three winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, explains how dark…
Milky Way Arm Wrestles With Dark Matter
[/caption] For a good number of years, astronomers have hypothesized the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy has been loaded up with dark…
Alone In The Dark?
[/caption] Two years ago, Marla Geha, a Yale University astronomer, Joshua Simon from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and their…
A Four Cluster Pile-Up
[/caption] Abell 2744, shown above in a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO's Very Large Telescope…
AMS Now Attached to the Space Station, Ready to Observe the Invisible Universe
The long-awaited Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics detector that could unlock mysteries about dark matter and other cosmic radiation,…
No Joy for Dark Matter Detector’s First 100 Days
[/caption] We’re still mostly in the dark about Dark Matter, and the highly anticipated results from the XENON100 detector has…
Perseus Cluster Thicker Around the Middle Than Thought
[/caption] The Japanese Suzaku X-ray telescope has just taken a close look at the Perseus galaxy cluster, and revealed it's…
Hunt for Dark Matter Closes in at the LHC
[/caption] From an Imperial College London press release: Physicists say they are closer than ever to finding the source of…
Red Dwarf Discovery Changes Everything!
[/caption] Its often said that the number of grains of sand on Earth equals the number of stars in the…