News articles tagged with 'dark matter'
Dark-matter search plunges physicists to new depths
— 12 Aug 2010 08:42 | PhysicsThis month physicist Juan Collar and his associates are taking their attempt to unmask the secret identity of dark matter into a Canadian mine more than a mile underground…
Simulation could solve mystery of 'dark matter'
— 5 Nov 2008 18:00 | AstronomyThe search for a mysterious substance which makes up most of the Universe could soon be at an end, according to new research. Dark matter is believed to account for 85 per cent of the…
Listening to dark matter
— 16 Oct 2008 12:30 | AstronomyA team of researchers in Canada have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter. The PICASSO collaboration has documented the discovery of a significant difference between…
A powerful collision of galaxy clusters provides new clue to dark matter
— 28 Aug 2008 14:56 | AstronomyA powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. This clash of clusters provides striking evidence for dark…
Scientists discover minimum mass for galaxies
— 27 Aug 2008 17:00 | AstronomyBy analysing light from small, faint galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, University of California - Irvine scientists believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the…
Research shows clumps and streams of dark matter in inner regions of the Milky Way
— 7 Aug 2008 12:59 | AstronomyUsing one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to simulate the halo of dark matter that envelopes our galaxy, researchers found dense clumps and streams of the mysterious…
Astronomers discover largest-ever dark matter structures spanning 270M light-years
— 22 Feb 2008 17:33 | AstronomyA University of British Columbia astronomer with an international team has discovered the largest structures of dark matter ever seen. Measuring 270 million light-years across, these…
COUPP experiment tightens limits on dark matter
— 17 Feb 2008 17:34 | PhysicsScientists working on the COUPP experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced a new development in the quest to observe dark matter. The Chicagoland…
The end to a mystery?
— 31 Jan 2008 13:46 | AstronomyAstronomers at the University of St Andrews believe they can 'simplify the dark side of the universe' by shedding new light on two of its mysterious constituents…
Galaxy cluster models cast doubt on dark matter
— 27 Oct 2007 08:33 | AstronomyFor almost 75 years, astronomers have believed that the Universe has a large amount of unseen or 'dark' matter, thought to make up about five-sixths of the matter in the cosmos. With…
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