Sentences with phrase «caused by dark matter»

Whether the variations are caused by dark matter or something else, however, remains unclear.

Photomultiplier tubes within the detector, shown above, detect light produced in interactions possibly caused by dark matter particles.

It is able to look for even higher - energy electrons and positrons, numbers of which should suddenly drop off if they are caused by dark matter annihilations, but not if caused by pulsars.

All the evidence seemed to support the idea that the extra gamma rays were caused by dark matter.

Not exact matches

Sagan's second alternative, the oscillating universe model has been discredited by a lack of sufficient matter to cause a contraction.1 It was further discredited by the discovery of dark energy, which shows that the universe is actually expanding at an ever increasing rate.2 So, Sagan's first alternative is the one that turned out to be true.

Researchers from the Dark Energy Survey used the Victor Blanco telescope in Chile to survey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal matDark Energy Survey used the Victor Blanco telescope in Chile to survey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal matdark and normal matter.

Oh, and she also swims, as we find out when she recounts how she attended an important dark matter seminar despite having concussion caused by a head - on collision with another swimmer.

MOND is the idea that the faster - than - expected motion of stars and galaxies, and galaxies in clusters, is caused not by the gravitational tug of invisible dark matter but by a modification of gravity or inertia not predicted by Newton.

One shows a glow from the galactic centre that may be caused by particles of dark matter colliding and then annihilating around the black hole there.

The Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope has detected a glow around the centre of the galaxy, which some researchers think could be caused by particles of dark matter crashing together and being annihilated around the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

That match, with only a 1 - in - 100,000 chance of being caused by a statistical error, virtually eliminates any possibility that B - sub-s meson decay is related to interaction with particles predicted by dark matter theories, as some physicists have suspected.

That is because drag is caused by electromagnetic forces between atoms, and dark matter interacts with other matter only through the force of gravity.

By itself, cold dark matter would cause visible matter to condense into galaxy - sized structures, but can not explain the formation of larger structures.

As a result, light coming from a distant galaxy will be deflected by otherwise invisible globs of dark matter, causing it to appear stretched and deformed.

Some theories say that dark matter is only an illusion caused by a failure to understand the way gravity works on the grand scale of the universe.

In this case, the researchers looked for distortions to light being emitted by background galaxies caused by foreground dark matter filaments.

The particulate matter that is released into the atmosphere by industry and automobiles settles on the ice, making it darker and causing it to absorb more heat.