Bright galaxies put dark matter to the test
A composite of Stephan's Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, constructed from nearly 1,000 separate image files from the ...
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Galaxy’s core may contain less dark matter than expected
Galactocentric map of the XY plane of the 33,335 stars used to calculate circular velocities, plotted in 0.5 kpc boxes. ...
The investigation into dark energy; the origins of color blindness; the evolution of heads
Artistic visualization of a supermassive black hole in the early universe. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) It took ...
Observing macroscopic quantum effects in the dark
A nanometric-sized glass bead evolving in a potential created by electrostatic or magnetic forces enters a state of macroscopic quantum ...
Nube, the almost invisible galaxy that defies the dark matter model
The Nube galaxy. The figure is a composition of a color image and a black and white image, to make ...
How black silicon, a prized material used in solar cells, gets its dark, rough side
The fluorine gas etches the surface of the silicon into a series of angular peaks that, when viewed with a ...
Gliese 367 b is a dark, hot sub-Earth with no atmosphere, study finds
Artistic concept of Gliese 367 b. Credit: NASA Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers studied a nearby sub-Earth ...
Did LIGO and Virgo detect a dark matter star merger?
Gravitational waves are ripples in the structure of space-time that travel at the speed of light. These are produced during ...
Dark matter could help us discover their origin
In this study, the researchers showed that if magnetic fields are indeed primordial, then they could cause an increase in ...
New dark matter theory explains two puzzles in astrophysics
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Considered to constitute 85% of the matter in the universe, dark matter is not luminous and ...
