antimatter
It's Official, Antimatter Falls Down in Gravity, Not Up
Since the discovery of antimatter decades ago, particle physicists have wondered if these particles were repulsed by gravity. Einstein predicted…
Anti-Helium Generated in the Large Hadron Collider can Help in the Search for Dark Matter
Researchers from CERN's ALICE Collaboration have come up with a new way to search for Dark Matter: look for anti-helium-3…
A Pulsar is Blasting out Jets of Matter and Antimatter
Why is there so much antimatter in the Universe? Ordinary matter is far more plentiful than antimatter, but scientists keep…
Halo Around a Pulsar could Explain Why We See Antimatter Coming from Space
Astronomers have been watching a nearby pulsar with a strange halo around it. That pulsar might answer a question that's…
Antimatter Behaves Exactly the Same as Regular Matter in Double Slit Experiments
An experiment recently conducted by the QUPLAS collaboration confirmed the dual, particle-wave nature of antimatter.
Every Time Lightning Strikes, Matter-Antimatter Annihilation Happens too
A new study from a team of Japanese researchers has shown that matter-antimatter annihilations happen as a result of lightning…
Spectrum of Antimatter Observed for First Time
A new study by CERN researchers has led to the first spectral information of antimatter ever, giving further confirmation to…
Are There Antimatter Galaxies?
One of the big mysteries in astronomy is what happened to all the antimatter? Is it possible that it’s actually…
What if a Black Hole Met an Antimatter Black Hole?
Would shooting a black hole into an antimatter black hole destroy them both? (more…)
Is There a Mirror Universe?
Could there be a mirror universe, where everything is backwards - and everybody has goatees? How badly do you need…