Dark Matter
Alone In The Dark?
[/caption] Two years ago, Marla Geha, a Yale University astronomer, Joshua Simon from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and their…
A Four Cluster Pile-Up
[/caption] Abell 2744, shown above in a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO's Very Large Telescope…
AMS Now Attached to the Space Station, Ready to Observe the Invisible Universe
The long-awaited Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics detector that could unlock mysteries about dark matter and other cosmic radiation,…
No Joy for Dark Matter Detector’s First 100 Days
[/caption] We’re still mostly in the dark about Dark Matter, and the highly anticipated results from the XENON100 detector has…
Perseus Cluster Thicker Around the Middle Than Thought
[/caption] The Japanese Suzaku X-ray telescope has just taken a close look at the Perseus galaxy cluster, and revealed it's…
Hunt for Dark Matter Closes in at the LHC
[/caption] From an Imperial College London press release: Physicists say they are closer than ever to finding the source of…
Red Dwarf Discovery Changes Everything!
[/caption] Its often said that the number of grains of sand on Earth equals the number of stars in the…
Missing Milky Way Dark Matter
[/caption]Although dark matter is inherently difficult to observe, an understanding of its properties (even if not its nature) allows astronomers…
Astronomers Find Black Holes Do Not Absorb Dark Matter
[/caption] There's the common notion that black holes suck in everything in the nearby vicinity by exerting a strong gravitational…
What Can The (Dark) Matter Be?
What better place to look for dark matter than down a mine shaft? A research team from the University of…