Shining New Light on Dark Matter: Kathryn Zurek talks about the ongoing search for an invisible substance that permeates the galaxy. About 80 percent of…
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Decaying dark matter should produce a bright and spherical halo of X-ray emission around the center of the Milky Way that could be detectable when…
The lower horizontal axis is the axion mass, the upper horizontal axis is the microwave frequency corresponding to the mass, and the vertical axis is…
A dark matter map, created by Japanese astronomers using weak lensing. The background image of a wide field of galaxies was analyzed for weak lensing…
Astronomers have gotten creative in trying to trace the elusive cosmic web, the large-scale backbone of the cosmos. Researchers turned to slime mold, a single-cell…
A sub-atomic particle has been identified that could have formed the “dark matter” in the Universe during the Big Bang. Scientists shed light on mystery…
ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Plan is designed to give us new understanding and new views of the Universe. Credit: NASA/ESA/ESO/W. Freudling (ST-ECF) How can you…
In a new study, astrophysicists have found a certain gamma-ray glow in the sky, known as unresolved gamma-ray background (yellow), to coincide with cosmic regions…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first-ever picture of a group of five star-like images of a single distant quasar. The multiple-image effect seen…
This graphic illustrates how a faraway quasar’s light is altered by a massive foreground galaxy and by tiny dark matter clumps along the light path.…
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image capturing UGC 477, a low surface brightness galaxy located just over 110 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces…
Anomalies in nuclear physics experiments may show signs of a new force. A team of scientists in Hungary recently published a paper that hints at…
An abundance of mysterious gamma radiation exists in the center of the Milky Way, called the Galactic Center GeV Excess. Previous research determined that this…
Figure 1. Dark matter drives structural formation and constructs potential wells where galaxies may form. This figure illustrates structure in the simulated universe, in a…
The dwarf galaxy Sculptor, above, is a companion to the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers will use Webb to study the motions of stars in Sculptor…
Penning trap system of the BASE Collaboration. Credit: Stefan Sellner, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan Researchers now harnessing antimatter in their search for dark matter.…
Could the profound mysteries of antimatter and dark matter be linked? Thinking that they might be, scientists from the international BASE collaboration, led by Stefan…
Crews at the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory in Lead, South Dakota, begin to lower the LUX-ZEPLIN central detector. Its nearly mile-long descent down an elevator…
PRISMA+ and HIM scientists report the latest findings of the CASPEr research program in Science Advances. A team led by Prof Dmitry Budker has continued…
The researchers propose a new instrument for searching dark matter axions using tunable plasmas. Illustration: Alexander Millar/Stockholm University Physicists at Stockholm University and the Max…