Dark Matter
Pulsars are the Ideal Probes for Dark Matter
Pulsars are the remnants of the explosion of massive stars at the end of their lives. The event is known…
Mapping the Stars in a Dwarf Galaxy to Reveal its Dark Matter
Dark matter is curious stuff! As the name suggests, it’s dark making it notoriously difficult to study. Although it’s is…
Mapping the Milky Way’s Dark Matter Halo
Anytime astronomers talk of mapping the Milky Way I am always reminded how tricky the study of the Universe can…
Dark Matter: Why study it? What makes it so fascinating?
Universe Today has had some incredible discussions with a wide array of scientists regarding impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, astrobiology,…
A New Way to Prove if Primordial Black Holes Contribute to Dark Matter
The early Universe was a strange place. Early in its history—in the first quintillionth of a second—the entire cosmos was…
Rotation Curves of Galaxies Stay Flat Indefinitely
In his classic book On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the philosopher Thomas Kuhn posited that, for a new scientific…
Merging Black Holes Could Give Astronomers a Way to Detect Hawking Radiation
Nothing lasts forever, including black holes. Over immensely long periods of time, they evaporate, as will other large objects in…
Does the Milky Way Have Too Many Satellite Galaxies?
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are well known satellite galaxies of the Milky Way but there are more. It…
The World's Largest Digital Camera is Complete. It Will Go Into the Vera Rubin Observatory
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), was formally proposed in 2001 to create an…
A New Tabletop Experiment to Search for Dark Matter
What is Dark Matter? We don't know. At this stage of the game, scientists are busy trying to detect it…