dark matter
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Physicists Are Looking for Dark Matter in Tiny, Ancient Black Holes
On the night of November 23, 2014, a powerful telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii was trying to pick out the enigmatic movements of a black hole travelling through space. In the seven hours the telescope peered at the cosmos, it may have caught one, as a structure about the size of Earth eclipsed a…
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Funky Discrepancy Deepens Dark Matter Mystery
New research, in which empirical data failed to jibe with theoretical calculations, shows just how much physicists still have to learn about dark matter.
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A Wild, Six-Quark Particle Might Have Been Dark Matter All Along
Most of the matter in the universe is undetectable in any way except for the gravity it exerts. While some think this mysterious “dark matter” must be made up of unknown particles, others suggest a familiar particle could be the key.
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Has Hubble Detected Rogue Clumps Of Dark Matter?
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence of small clumps of dark matter warping the light from distant quasars.