Sentences with phrase «for mysterious dark matter»

In the search for the mysterious dark matter, physicists have used elaborate computer calculations to come up with an outline of the particles of this unknown form of matter.

Unseen right - handed neutrinos may also account for mysterious dark matter.

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

That particle, whatever it may be, would be available in abundant quantities and could thus be a good candidate for the mysterious dark matter believed to account for more than one - quarter of the stuff in the universe.

Not exact matches

Some scientists are reluctant to ring that bell just yet, saying there could be other reasons for the results, but one potential explanation of the latest results from a cosmic ray detector in space is that it is the first detection of the mysterious dark matter material that has eluded scientists» understanding for decades.

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A team of physicists has used data from GPS satellites to hunt for dark matter, the mysterious stuff whose gravity appears to hold galaxies together.

«New theory of secondary inflation expands options for avoiding an excess of dark matter: Physicists suggest a smaller secondary inflationary period in the moments after the Big Bang could account for the abundance of the mysterious matter.»

We follow the search for dark matter — that mysterious stuff which outweighs the visible stars and galaxies by a factor of about six.

Dark matter with a tiny electrical charge could put the brakes on pulsars, offering a new way to look for clues to the nature of the mysterious substance

If so, these MACHOs (MAssive Compact Halo Objects) might account for a significant fraction of the mysterious dark matter that dwells in the Milky Way's halo.

Thousands of physicists, astrophysicists, and astronomers are searching for dark matter, mysterious stuff whose gravity seems to hold the galaxies together.

(Visible matter accounts for only 5 %, and the even more mysterious dark energy makes up the rest.)

(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.)

Globular clusters are normally considered to be almost devoid of this mysterious substance, but perhaps, for some unknown reason, some clusters have retained significant dark matter clumps in their cores.

The results, published in the journal Science on 27 March 2015, show that dark matter interacts with itself even less than previously thought, and narrows down the options for what this mysterious substance might be.

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.

It's not the result physicists were hoping for, but data from a new experiment may put an end to a contentious subplot in the search for dark matter, the mysterious stuff whose gravity binds the galaxies.

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.

Now a team has killed off one of the leading hypotheses for their origin, increasing the likelihood that the explanation relies on dark matter, the mysterious stuff making up 27 per cent of the cosmos.

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

During this BSA Distinguished Lecture, Hitoshi Murayama discusses how scientists have major puzzles to solve by, for example, uncovering more about the Higgs boson discovered nearly five decades after it was predicted and investigating the mysterious, invisible dark matter that holds the universe together.

You can view videos of some past Perimeter physics lectures below: Shape - Shifting Particles: Mysterious Neutrinos [Video] The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy [Video] Strange, Dense Matter: The Power of Neutron Stars [Video] How Radioactivity Can Benefit Your Health [Video]

Astronomers have previously suggested that these so - called primordial black holes could account for all or some of the universe's mysterious dark matter and that they might have seeded the formation of supermassive black holes that exist at the centers of galaxies.

The authors even propose in their recent article for Spektrum der Wissenschaft, the German version of Scientific American, that these ubiquitous black holes might account for part of the mysterious Dark Matter.

In their search for the pervasive - yet - elusive particles of dark matter, astronomers have tried to find galaxies with much higher concentrations of the mysterious substance — it does not interact with visible matter at all, except through gravity, which is how scientists can theorize its existence.

If they existed, axions — one of the candidates for particles of the mysterious dark matter — could interact with the matter forming our world, but they would have to do this to a much, much weaker extent than it has seemed up to now.

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.

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.»

These mysterious foes are racing to claim dark matter for some insidious agenda, and it's up to the Paladin's, earth's last line of defense, to save the day.

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