The Hunt for Ultralight Dark Matter
If or when SLAC’s planned project, the Light Dark Matter Experiment (LDMX), receives funding—a decision from the Department of Energy is expected in the next year or so—it will scan …
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IIT Guwahati, international scientists shed light on dark matter’s crucial role in shaping Universe
NEW DELHI: Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati in collaboration with international scientists have proposed a novel scenario to explain the matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe. A study …
New study suggests dark matter as distorted parallel universe
NEW DELHI: Scientists have put forward a theory that dark matter might actually be an alternate universe. In a recent study quoted by Daily Express, Dr Arushi Bodas and his …
Thereâs a New Theory About Where Dark Matter Is Hiding
But there may be opportunities to indirectly spot the signatures of those gravitons. One strategy Vafa and his collaborators are pursuing draws on large-scale cosmological surveys that chart the distribution …
Is The Universe Ripping Itself Apart? What A New Study On Dark Energy Shows
Remains of a Type Ia Supernova. NASA / CXC / U.Texas, CC BY Sydney, Australia: What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years. …
The Milky Way’s Stars Reveal Its Turbulent Past
To make maps of these structures, astronomers turn to individual stars. Each star’s composition records its birthplace, age, and natal ingredients, so studying starlight enables a form of galactic cartography—as …
The Euclid Space Telescope’s Spectacular First Photos of Distant and Hidden Galaxies
Scientists leading the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope mission have just released its breathtaking first science images, taken only four months after launch. These new space photos reveal spectacular …
THIS is the biggest unsolved mystery of the universe
The universe is full of mysteries, but perhaps there is one that stands out above the rest. It is something that we cannot see, touch, or measure, but we know …
A New Map of the Universe, Painted With Cosmic Neutrinos
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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through you every second, most come from the sun or Earth’s atmosphere. But …