Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic…
Scientists May Have Found Dark Matter’s Fingerprint in a Black Hole Collision
Gravitational waves from colliding black holes may hold subtle clues about one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
Physicists May Be on the Verge of Discovering “New Physics” at CERN
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as…
A new way to spot signs of dark matter | MIT News
Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way…
Dark Matter: Scientists tested Newton’s Law across 750 million light-years: Does gravity still work as Newton predicted?
It’s been more than three centuries since Isaac Newton figured out that gravity pulls things together. You’d think,…
Scientists Think the Fifth Dimension May Exist—and It’s Hiding Behind the Universe We Know
Imagine physicists telling you they may have found evidence of a hidden dimension folded inside reality itself. That’s…
After 100 Years, Scientists Uncover Hidden Rule Governing Cosmic Rays
Cosmic rays are primarily composed of protons, but also of helium, carbon, oxygen, and iron nuclei. Credit: Chinese…
Dark Matter May Have Jump-Started Universe’s First Giant Black Holes
New research by astronomers from the University of California, Riverside, Sam Houston State University and the University of…
Physicist Proposes Dark Matter Is Made of Black Holes That Survived Dead Universes
Here’s a fun dark matter solution. The invisible and as yet hypothetical substance could be made of “relic”…
Scientists Develop New Way To Track Particles in 3D
Illustration of the first prototype of a new monolithic detector system capable of performing ultrafast, 3D and high-resolution…
Newton’s 300-Year-Old Law Passes Its Biggest Cosmic Test Yet
Gravity, long understood as the force governing motion from falling apples to orbiting planets, is now being tested…