Astronomers Say They Finally Found Half the Universe’s Matter. It was Missing In Plain Sight
An artist’s depiction of the halo of hot hydrogen gas surrounding the Milky Way galaxy (center) and two…
The coldest ever hunt for dark matter has begun deep underground
Two kilometres underground near Sudbury, Ont., a machine has reached a temperature so low it barely seems real.…
New electronically tunable quantum detector speeds up search for dark matter
For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for evidence of dark matter, an invisible substance they believe…
Gravitational waves may be responsible for dark matter in the universe
Dark matter is thought to exist everywhere, wrapping around galaxies and helping to shape the largest things in…
Scientists make ytterbium atomic clock that could detect dark matter
Physicists have developed a highly precise and ultra-sensitive atomic clock based on ytterbium, which could test the limits…
6,800 feet below ground, in the search for dark matter, something has gone very, very cold
Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has…
CERN tests quantum microwire detectors for next-generation colliders
Researchers in the US have revealed that an emerging class of quantum sensors, called superconducting microwire single-photon detectors…
New ‘Dark Galaxy’ Identified as NASA Says It’s Nearly Invisible and Made Up of 99% Dark Matter
NEED TO KNOW A new galaxy, named Candidate Dark Galaxy-2 or CDG-2, was recently discovered using the Hubble…
Dark matter and neutrinos are linked and interact with each other
A quiet shift in the numbers behind the universe’s growth is pushing scientists toward a bold possibility. Two…
A Galaxy Composed Almost Entirely of Dark Matter Has Been Confirmed
Astronomers have just identified what appears to be a cosmic anomaly: a faint galaxy with so few visible…
Rather Than Expanding Forever, The Universe May Be Doomed to “Crunch” in 20 Billion Years
Illustration by ZME Science. We’ve been told by science that the universe is expanding relentlessly, driven by a…
The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole
For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr…