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July 26, 2024

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Dark Matter Flies Ahead of Normal Matter in Mega Galaxy Cluster Collision

July 24, 2024 — Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters' vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal ...

Astrophysicists Uncover Supermassive Blackhole/dark Matter Connection in Solving the 'Final Parsec Problem'

July 22, 2024 — Researchers have found a link between some of the largest and smallest objects in the cosmos: supermassive black holes and dark matter particles. Their new calculations reveal that pairs of ...

How Astronomers Are Using Pulsars to Observe Evidence of Dark Matter

July 16, 2024 — Tantalizing evidence of potential dark matter objects has been detected with the help of the Universe's 'timekeepers'. These pulsars -- neutron stars which rotate and emit lighthouse-like beams of radio waves that rapidly sweep through space -- were ...

Cosmic Wrestling Match

July 15, 2024 — Our universe is around 13.8 billion years old. Over the vastness of this time, the tiniest of initial asymmetries have grown into the large-scale structures we can see through our telescopes in the night sky: galaxies like our own Milky Way, ...

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Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxy Tracked Using Stellar Motions

July 11, 2024 — The qualities and behavior of dark matter, the invisible 'glue' of the universe, continue to be shrouded in mystery. Though galaxies are mostly made of dark matter, understanding how it is ...

The Origins of Dark Comets

July 10, 2024 — Up to 60% of near-Earth objects could be dark comets, mysterious asteroids that orbit the sun in our solar system that likely contain or previously contained ice and could have been one route for ...

Too Many Missing Satellite Galaxies Found

June 28, 2024 — Bringing us one step closer to solving the 'missing satellites problem,' researchers have discovered two new satellite ...

Precision Instrument Bolsters Efforts to Find Elusive Dark Energy

June 26, 2024 — Dark energy -- a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate -- was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists have been searching for a new and exotic particle ...

Modified Gravity Theory: A Million Light Years and Still Going

June 17, 2024 — In a breakthrough discovery that challenges the conventional understanding of cosmology, scientists have unearthed new evidence that could reshape our perception of the cosmos. New research shows ...

Scientists Develop 3D Printed Vacuum System That Aims to Trap Dark Matter

June 17, 2024 — Using a specially designed 3D printed vacuum system, scientists have developed a way to 'trap' dark matter with the aim of detecting domain walls, this will be a significant step forwards in ...

NASA's Roman Mission Gets Cosmic 'Sneak Peek' from Supercomputers

June 12, 2024 — Researchers used supercomputers to create nearly 4 million simulated images depicting the ...

How Did a Satellite Galaxy of the Milky Way Come to Be?

June 11, 2024 — Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Extremely cold and with slow-moving stars, Crater 2 has low surface ...

Exotic Black Holes Could Be a Byproduct of Dark Matter

June 6, 2024 — In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose. The gravitational pull from these tiny, ...

The Case of the Missing Black Holes

May 29, 2024 — Researchers have applied the well-understood and highly verified quantum field theory, usually applied to the study of the very small, to a new target, the early universe. Their exploration led to ...

First Pictures from Euclid Satellite Reveal Billions of Orphan Stars

May 23, 2024 — The first scientific pictures from the Euclid satellite mission have revealed more than 1,500 billion orphan stars scattered throughout the Perseus cluster of ...

Astronomers' Simulations Support Dark Matter Theory

Apr. 29, 2024 — Computer simulations by astronomers support the idea that dark matter -- matter that no one has yet directly detected but which many physicists think must be there to explain several aspects of the ...

Physicists Solve Puzzle About Ancient Galaxy Found by Webb Telescope

Apr. 12, 2024 — Physicists solve a puzzle linked to JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current ...

Neutron Stars Are Key to Understanding Elusive Dark Matter

Apr. 5, 2024 — Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking one of the great mysteries of the universe after calculating that neutron stars might hold a key to helping us understand elusive dark ...

First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe

Apr. 4, 2024 — Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to make the largest 3D map of our universe and world-leading measurements of dark energy, the mysterious cause of its accelerating ...

First Results from BREAD Experiment Demonstrate a New Approach to Searching for Dark Matter

Apr. 2, 2024 — One of the great mysteries of modern science is dark matter. We know dark matter exists thanks to its effects on other objects in the cosmos, but we have never been able to directly see it. And it s ...

Astrophysicist's Research Could Provide a Hint in the Search for Dark Matter

Mar. 20, 2024 — Dark matter is one of science's greatest mysteries. Although it is believed to make up about 85 percent of the cosmos, scientists know very little about its fundamental nature. Research provides ...

Largest-Ever Map of Universe's Active Supermassive Black Holes Released

Mar. 18, 2024 — Astronomers have charted the largest-ever volume of the universe with a new map of active supermassive black holes living at the centers of galaxies. Called quasars, the gas-gobbling black holes are, ...

New Research Suggests That Our Universe Has No Dark Matter

Mar. 15, 2024 — A new study challenges the current model of the universe by showing that, in fact, it has no room for dark ...

Finding New Physics in Debris from Colliding Neutron Stars

Mar. 6, 2024 — Neutron star mergers are a treasure trove for new physics signals, with implications for determining the true nature of dark matter, according to ...

A Star Like a Matryoshka Doll: New Theory for Gravastars

Feb. 15, 2024 — If gravitational condensate stars (or gravastars) actually existed, they would look similar to black holes to a distant observer. Two theoretical physicists have now found a new solution to Albert ...

Bright Galaxies Put Dark Matter to the Test

Jan. 31, 2024 — The earliest galaxies are thought to have formed as the gravitational pull of dark matter, which has been impossible to study directly, slowly drew in enough hydrogen and helium to ignite stars. But ...

Stars Travel More Slowly at Milky Way's Edge

Jan. 26, 2024 — Physicists discovered stars near the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to its center -- a surprise suggesting our galaxy's gravitational core may have less dark matter ...

Final Supernova Results from Dark Energy Survey Offer Unique Insights Into the Expansion of the Universe

Jan. 8, 2024 — In the culmination of a decade's worth of effort, scientists analyzed an unprecedented sample of more than 1,500 supernovae classified using machine learning. They placed the strongest ...

Magnetic Fields in the Cosmos: Dark Matter Could Help Us Discover Their Origin

Jan. 3, 2024 — We don't know how magnetic fields in the cosmos formed. Now a new theoretical research tells how the invisible part of our universe could help us find out, suggesting a primordial genesis, even ...

Researchers Study a Million Galaxies to Find out How the Universe Began

Dec. 22, 2023 — Researchers have analyzed more than one million galaxies to explore primordial fluctuations that seeded the formation of the structure of the entire ...

Cosmic Lights in the Forest

Dec. 21, 2023 — Supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of hydrodynamic simulations yet made of large-scale structure in the ...

Interpreting the Afterglow of a Black Hole's Breakfast

Dec. 4, 2023 — An entirely new way to probe how active black holes behave when they eat has been discovered by an international team of ...

New Way of Searching for Dark Matter

Nov. 27, 2023 — Wondering whether whether Dark Matter particles actually are produced inside a jet of standard model particles, led researchers to explore a new detector signature known as semi-visible jets, which ...

Downloading NASA's Dark Matter Data from Above the Clouds

Nov. 14, 2023 — Data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters has been saved by a new recovery system. The system allowed the retrieval of gigabytes of information, even after communication ...