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April 8, 2019 Science

Now We Know That Dark Matter Isn’t Primordial Black Holes

For over fifty years, scientists have theorized that roughly 85% of matter in the Universe’s is made up of a

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Astronomers have found two galaxies that appear devoid of dark matter, which they argue is in fact strong evidence of the elusive particle's existence.

April 4, 2019 Science

Two Unusual Galaxies Shake Up the Dark Matter Debate, Again

When it comes to the nature of dark matter, astronomers are still largely, well, in the dark. The existence of

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The bizarre galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, a diffuse collection of stars, gas and dust that is apparently devoid of dark matter.

January 26, 2019 Science

Ghostly Galaxies Hint at Dark Matter Breakthrough

Much as a ripple in a pond reveals a thrown stone, the existence of the mysterious stuff known as dark

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January 3, 2019 Science

Scientists Find the ‘Missing’ Dark Matter from the Early Universe

Dark matter, it seems, has been clinging to galaxies for a very long time. Most galaxies that existed 10 billion

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The stellar center as seen from the ESO La Silla Paranal Observatory in Northern Chile.

December 8, 2018 Science

Physicists Keep Attempting– and Failing– to Discover Dark Matter in Dark Places

Researchers began viewing crystals shimmer in the 1990 s. Those crystals sparkled more in the summer season, which scientists took

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November 16, 2018 Science

Dark matter Hurricane is hitting Earth the with speed of up to 310 miles per SECOND

A DARK matter hurricane is currently barreling towards Earth and it could help scientists uncover the mystery of the elusive

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A supernova (bright spot at lower left) and its host galaxy (upper center), as they would appear if gravitationally lensed by an intervening black hole (center).

October 5, 2018 Science

Black Holes Ruled Out As Universe’s Missing Dark Matter

For one brief shining moment after the 2015 detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, astronomers held out hope

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August 17, 2018 Science

A galaxy 11.3 billion light-years away appears filled with dark matter

A distant galaxy appears filled with dark matter. The outermost stars in the Cosmic Seagull, a galaxy 11.3 billion light-years

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August 15, 2018 Science

Astronomers Have Discovered A Galaxy With No Dark Matter Aand It’s A Huge Deal

For the first time ever, an international team of astronomers has discovered a galaxy lacking dark matter, the hypothetical and

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July 18, 2018 Science

Oddball Galaxy Puts Dark Matter Theory to the Test

A small, faint galaxy residing some 65 million light-years away has been threatening to upend scientists’ entire paradigm of dark

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August 13, 2017 Science

Is Dark Matter Less ‘Lumpy’ Than Predicted?

Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab, the country’s largest Large Hadron Collider research institution. He

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August 5, 2017 Science

Most Accurate Map of Recent Universe Unveiled by Scientists

A new map of the universe has been unveiled by scientists, revealing the last seven billion years of the history of

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