Sentences with phrase «findings about dark matter»

Their goal: to take stock of the latest theories and findings about dark matter, assess just how close we are to detecting it and spark cross-disciplinary discussions and collaborations aimed at resolving the dark matter puzzle.

Not exact matches

In their simulations, Gao and Theuns found that within clumps of cold dark matter, single massive stars formed, but warm dark matter formed filaments about a quarter the width of the Milky Way, attracting enough ordinary matter to create some 10 million stars — and some of these very first stars could still be around.

The research, also posted online at arXiv.org, negates an earlier finding that stars were separated from their dark matter in Abell 3827, a cluster including four colliding galaxies about 1.3 billion light - years from Earth (SN: 5/16/15, p. 10).

To find out more about the elusive particles and their potential links to cosmic evolution, invisible dark matter and matter's dominance over antimatter in the universe, the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is taking on key roles in four neutrino experiments: EXO, DUNE, MicroBooNE and ICARUS.

The first hints of dark matter were found as far from the depths of the Soudan Mine as you can imagine: in the Coma galaxy cluster, about 320 million light - years away.

The findings, published April 20 in Physical Review Letters, exclude a small range of axion - like particles that could have comprised about 4 percent of dark matter.

In 1933, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky suggested the existence of dark matter when he found that the galaxies in a particular cluster swirl about each other too fast to be bound by their gravity alone.

The find threatens to turn current thinking about dark matter on its ear.

In this episode, Scientific American editor George Musser talks with Caltech Astronomer Josh Simon about dark matter, and about the efforts to try to locate the so - called missing satellites of the Milky Way — small galaxies that have yet to be found in the numbers that the cold dark matter theory predicts.

«Dark matter comes about because people unquestionably find mass discrepancies in galaxies and clusters of galaxies,» says Mordehai Milgrom, an astrophysicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

There have been other galaxies found that seem to be made mostly of dark matter, but this new one is about 10,000 times more massive than any of them.

Quanta Magazine spoke with Bullock about complex dark matter, how this mysterious mass might behave, and the best places in the universe to find it.

«Chandra's Find of Lonely Halo Raises Questions About Dark Matter.»