The Milky Way’s satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formation Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might […]
Researchers look for dark matter close to home Eighty-five percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, but we don’t know what, exactly, it is. A new study from the University of Michigan, Lawrence […]
Did German physicists accidentally discover dark matter in 2014? Could we have already discovered dark matter? That’s the question put forth in a new paper published Feb.12 in the Journal of Physics G. The authors outlined how […]
This is how ESA telescope Euclid is going to visualize dark matter How can you see something that’s invisible? Well, with Euclid! This future ESA telescope will map the structure of the universe and teach […]
Taking the temperature of dark matter Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis are taking the temperature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about a quarter of our […]
On the hunt for primordial black holes The theory that dark matter could be made of primordial black holes a fraction of a millimeter in size has been ruled out by a team of researchers […]