Sentences with phrase «as mysterious dark matter»

Astronomers have long inferred that most of the material in the universe is invisible, existing as mysterious dark matter.

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Mr. Futterman invokes mysterious Dark Matter and quantum theory as signaling that the physical world is far richer than we thought, and then points to analog computation and quantum computation as possible redoubts for mind or spirit.

The flash lamps that pump the initial energy into many lasers must be cooled for minutes or hours between shots, making it hard to carry out research that relies on plenty of data, such as investigating whether, very occasionally, photons transform into particles of the mysterious dark matter thought to make up much of the universe's mass.

Most of the material in the universe is something called dark matter, mysterious stuff that doesn't emit or reflect light and doesn't interact with what we think of as ordinary matter.

«This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don't emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter, and dark radiation,» said study leader and Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and The Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland.

What's more, as Zwicky first wrote in a Swiss journal, galaxies in the Coma cluster seemed to be moving in relation to one another at rates that would violate the laws of gravity, unless you posited the mysterious presence of a great deal of Dunkle Materie (or dark matter).

The main goal of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), as its name suggests, is to better understand the nature of dark energy, the mysterious stuff that makes up about 70 percent of the matter and energy in the univeDark Energy Survey (DES), as its name suggests, is to better understand the nature of dark energy, the mysterious stuff that makes up about 70 percent of the matter and energy in the univedark energy, the mysterious stuff that makes up about 70 percent of the matter and energy in the universe.

They interpreted it as the debris left behind when particles of dark matter — the mysterious substance that makes up most of the matter in the universe yet refuses to interact with ordinary matter except through gravity — crashed together and annihilated each other in the centre of the Milky Way.

If the result is correct, these ghostly subatomic particles, which fly through the Earth as if it were transparent, could be a major component of the mysterious dark matter that fills the Universe and which governs its ultimate fate.

This will help to pinpoint sources of high - energy cosmic rays, shed light on mysterious celestial objects such as microquasars, reveal any dark matter at the centre of the sun, and see further and at higher energies than with any other telescope.

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the material universe, remains as elusive as ever.

Back then, all stars needed to form was a primordial soup of mostly hydrogen and some helium atoms, perturbed by the effects of gravity on minuscule differences in the density of the gases, and the mysterious substance known as dark matter.

(Dark matter is a mysterious, theorized substance thought to account for one quarter of the universe's mass, some five times as much as ordinary matter provides.)

The results may reveal something profound about how galaxies form — or even about the very nature of the mysterious substance known as dark matter.

Physicists interpreted it as the debris from particles of mysterious dark matter — thought to make up most of the stuff in the universe — crashing together and annihilating each other.

Mirror matter has also been touted as a candidate for the mysterious dark matter that makes up 80 per cent of the universe.

Dubbed IceCube, this novel project built in the Antarctic ice will map cosmic neutrinos, nearly massless particles with no electric charge that stream from such mysterious entities as black holes, dark matter, and exploding stars.

Blandford: This is just regular matter like you and I, and we just use that phrase to distinguish it from the mysterious dark matter, which actually has a high average density in the universe, as we now know.

Lawrence expects that the spacecraft will significantly shrink levels of uncertainty for such cosmological parameters as the age of the universe and the relative proportions of ordinary matter (all that we can see and touch) and that mysterious stuff known as dark matter, which is believed to make up far more of the universe than its ordinary counterpart.

The detection of Refsdal's reappearance served as a unique opportunity for astronomers to test their models of how mass — especially that of mysterious dark matter — is distributed within this galaxy cluster.

NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope has found a signal at the center of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy that could indicate the presence of the mysterious stuff known as dark matter.

Mysterious dark matter is responsible for our existence in the Milky Way galaxy, as revealed in this video for a new show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium

«Clusters of galaxies are rare regions of the Universe consisting of hundreds of galaxies containing trillions of stars, as well as hot gas and mysterious dark matter,» said the lead author, Tracy Webb of McGill University, Canada.

Clusters are rare regions of the Universe consisting of hundreds of galaxies containing trillions of stars, as well as hot gas and mysterious Dark Matter.

It will probe questions such as what is the mysterious dark matter of the Universe made of?

The detection of this fifth appearance of the Refsdal supernova served as a unique opportunity for astronomers to test their models of how mass — especially that of mysterious dark matter — is distributed within this galaxy cluster, and they seem to be right on track.

Physicists at CERN hope that the detection and subsequent study of new particles could provide answers to some of the most fundamental questions of the universe, such as why there is an abundance of matter and lack of antimatter, and the make - up of mysterious «dark matter,» which is believed to constitute over 84 percent of the matter in the cosmos.

Here's a recent example from The New York Times: «Samuel Ting, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Nobel laureate particle physicist, said Wednesday that his $ 1.6 billion cosmic ray experiment on the International Space Station had found evidence of «new physical phenomena» that could represent dark matter, the mysterious stuff that serves as the gravitational foundation for galaxies and whose identification would rewrite some of the laws of physics.»

Dark Matter, an invisible material with mysterious properties that hypothetically constitutes much of the universe, serves as a metaphor for Cain's artistic process.