Dark Matter
Dark Matter Could Cause Jupiter’s Night Side to Glow
One of the aspects of our study of the universe that fascinates me is the hunt for dark matter. That…
Will Wide Binaries Be the End of MOND?
It’s a fact that many of us have churned out during public engagement events; that at least 50% of all…
There Aren’t Many Galaxies Like The Milky Way Nearby. Now We Know Why
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, maybe even a grand design spiral galaxy. We can't be sure from…
CERN Has Joined the Search for Dark Photons
Now that the Large Hadron Collider has measured the mass of the Higgs boson, physicists are trying to understand how…
A Dwarf Galaxy That's Almost All Dark Matter
Thanks to new techniques, astronomers are mapping the Universe with more precision, finding galaxies with more and less dark matter.…
Are Pulsars the Key to Finding Dark Matter?
The search for dark matter continues, with astronomers developing new hypotheses to search for this invisible gravitational influence on the…
Dark Matter Could Be Annihilating Inside White Dwarfs
Astronomers still don't know what dark matter is, but one of its characteristics is that it has a small "cross…
Dark Photons Could Be the Key to Both Dark Matter and the Muon Anomaly.
Dark matter might have its own force, mediated by dark photons similar to the way electromagnetism is mediated by photons.…
Quasars Have Always Had Dark Matter Halos
When you look at most galaxies in the Universe, you're looking at the homes of supermassive black holes. It now…
Astronomers Observe Blobs of Dark Matter Down to a Scale of 30,000 Light-Years Across
Dark matter remains mysterious and… well… dark. While we don't yet have a definite idea of what this cosmic "stuff"…