PNNL chemist Isaac Arnquist examines ultra-low radiation copper cables specially created for sensitive physics detection experiments. Credit: Andrea Starr, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Ultra-low radiation…
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About 80% of the universe’s matter is an undetected substance called “dark matter.” While its existence has been theorized for about 90 years, scientists at…
Scientists determined that the universe is made up of 31% matter and used innovative techniques to measure and verify this, paving the way for future…
A global team of scientists has delved deeper into understanding the complex nature of dark matter, which comprises a staggering 84% of the universe’s matter…
An artist’s representation of matter in the early universe slowly coalescing into large cosmic structures in the late universe. Credit: Minh Nguyen, University of Michigan…
Searching for Dark Photon Dark Matter with a Cryogenic Millimeter-Wave Receiver. Credit: KyotoU Global Comms/Shunsuke Adachi Millimeter-wave technologies assist in examining ‘light’ dark matter. Scientists…
This illustration represents a dark matter particle. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory attempted to observe these elusive particles using their neutrino detectors in Neutrino…
A team of researchers has now proposed a new candidate for dark matter: HYPER, or “HighlY Interactive ParticlE Relics.” Phase transition in early universe changes…
Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make up a large portion of the universe. It is called “dark” because…
Illustration of antihelium annihilation in the ALICE detector at CERN as well as in the universe. Credit: ORIGINS Cluster/S. Kwauka New findings lay the foundation…
Dark matter is a fundamental component of the standard cosmological model, but its mysteries remain unsolved. One of the biggest puzzles is the lack of…
A groundbreaking new study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that studying an atomic clock on a spacecraft orbiting close to the Sun, inside the orbit…
In a new breakthrough, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab have found a way to detect dark matter using quantum computers. Dark matter…
Artist’s impression of two white dwarf stars merging and creating a Type Ia supernova. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada An analysis of more than two decades’ worth…
The invisible halo that surrounds and permeates a galaxy or galaxy cluster is known as a dark matter halo. A University of California, Riverside physicist…
The gravitational lenses might also let us “see” the invisible dark matter that makes up most of the Universe. The dozens of newly identified gravitational…
A small satellite galaxy (green globe on the bottom left) of the Milky Way – called Sagittarius – has been observed from Earth through giant…
What is dark matter? Does it even exist, or do we just need an adjustment to our theory of gravity? What is dark matter? It…
Members of the LZ team in the LZ water tank after the outer detector installation. Credit: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility Berkeley Lab Researchers…
Dark matter was proposed to explain why stars at a galaxy’s far edge were able to move much faster than predicted with Newton. An alternative…