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Milky Way Struck 100 Million Years Ago, Still Rings Like a Bell
June 28, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered evidence that our Milky Way had an encounter with a small galaxy or massive dark matter structure perhaps as recently as 100 million years ago, and as a result of that ... > full story -
Reaching, Researching Between Stars: Astronomers Use Lonestar Supercomputer to Explore Role of Dark Matter in Galaxy Formation
June 26, 2012 — A new study reveals that dark matter is more distributed than predictions previously stated. Researchers used the TACC Lonestar supercomputer to simulate thousands of galaxy models based on the ... > full story -
Compact Blue Dwarf Can’t Hide from Hubble
June 19, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new view of the dwarf galaxy UGC 5497, which looks a bit like salt sprinkled on black velvet in the ... > full story -
Neutrons Escaping to a Parallel World?
June 15, 2012 — In a new paper, researchers hypothesize the existence of mirror particles to explain the anomalous loss of neutrons observed experimentally. The existence of such mirror matter had been suggested in ... > full story -
Black Hole Growth Found to Be out of Sync
June 11, 2012 — New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow in the centers of galaxies. Astronomers long have thought that a supermassive black hole and ... > full story -
Helices of Light: Dark Helices With a Bright Future
June 11, 2012 — Laser beams can be made to form dark as well as bright intensity helices, or corkscrews of light. Scientists have now shown that forming dark helices can have considerable advantages over ... > full story -
Some Adults With Sleep Disturbances Are Actually Afraid of the Dark, Study Says
June 11, 2012 — Sleep researchers are shedding light on a contributing factor to insomnia maybe hard to admit -- an adult fear of the dark. A pilot study reports that nearly half of the students reporting poor sleep ... > full story -
Dark Chocolate Could Prevent Heart Problems in High-Risk People
May 31, 2012 — Daily consumption of dark chocolate can reduce cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks and strokes, in people with metabolic syndrome (a cluster of factors that increases the risk of developing ... > full story -
More Atomic Hydrogen Gas Lurks in Universe: There's More Star-Stuff out There, but It's Not Dark Matter
May 30, 2012 — More atomic hydrogen gas -- the ultimate fuel for stars -- is lurking in today's universe than we thought, astronomers have found. This is the first accurate measurement of this gas in galaxies close ... > full story -
Baby Galaxies Grew Up Quickly
May 16, 2012 — Baby galaxies from the young universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research. This means that already in the early history of the universe, there ... > full story
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