dark matter
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The Large Hadron Collider Turns 10: Here’s What’s Next For Particle Physics
September 10 marked the 10th anniversary of when the Large Hadron Collider first powered on. Since it’s already achieved its most well-known goal — to discover the Higgs boson — you might wonder what else is happening at the famous collider.
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How Will Future Civilisations Survive The Accelerating Expansion Of The Universe?
If you think we have problems now, just wait a few billion years, when the accelerating expansion of the universe triggers an energy crisis of cosmological proportions. Sounds grim, but as a new paper points out, an advanced civilisation faced with doom won’t have to go gently into that good night — there may very…
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Black Holes Can Maybe Turn Into Dark Matter Lasers
Black holes are already some of the strangest objects in the universe, and scientists sometimes dream up some pretty wild theories about their behaviour. Like maybe they can accumulate dark matter particles and turn into black hole lasers, beaming radiation out into space.
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The US Will Fund Another Super-Sensitive And Expensive Dark Matter Experiment
The US Department of Energy will fund the most sensitive search yet for theorised dark matter particles. It will sit over 1.6km underground, in a nickel mine near the Canadian city of Sudbury, according to a release.