Sentences with phrase «mysterious dark matter»

Another 23 % consists of mysterious dark matter that (so far) manifests itself only through its gravity.

20 % of our universe is made up of your run - of - the - mill matter, while 80 % of mysterious dark matter, which we know very little about.

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

The fluctuations also created variations in temperature of the CMB across the sky, from which cosmologists have determined the content of the universe in terms of ordinary matter, mysterious dark matter whose gravity binds the galaxies, and weird space - stretching dark energy.

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

And if that's not enough, they may have detected mysterious dark matter at work,...

(2013) New, simple theory may explain mysterious dark matter.

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.

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.

She has since gone on to establish herself in the field of weak gravitational lensing, which involves studying the subtle distortions in images of distant galaxies to probe the nature of mysterious dark matter and dark energy.

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.

The vast polar structure — a plane of satellite galaxies at the poles of the Milky Way — is at the center of a tug - of - war between scientists who disagree about the existence of mysterious dark matter, the invisible substance that, according to some scientists, comprises 85 percent of the mass of the universe.

A team of scientists proposes that mysterious dark matter may seep into Earth's core about once every 30 million years, triggering massive volcanoes and ripping apart continents.

A long - smoldering feud over the existence of mysterious dark matter is heating up.

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.

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.

In a paper that appeared in Physical Review Letters this week, the researchers specifically show that the lack of bright X-ray and radio sources at the center of our galaxy strongly disfavours the possibility that these objects constitute all of the mysterious dark matter in the universe.

This new generation of telescopes will allow huge advances in studies of the early universe, of Earth - like planets around other stars, and of the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that influence the structure and expansion of the universe.

A whole lot of zig - zagging: Perhaps that is what happens when the universe's mysterious dark matter particles hit Earth.

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

This task is far more complicated than just taking a picture and counting all the bright things out there, because 90 percent of the material in the universe is in the form of mysterious dark matter that does not shine.

The size and spacing of the harmonics indicate that 30 percent of the mass of the universe is made up of mysterious dark matter, and another 65 percent is in the form of dark energy.

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.

A major project using ESO's powerful survey telescopes is now showing more clearly than ever before the relationships between this mysterious dark matter and the shining galaxies that we can observe directly [2].

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

Planck's results also adjust the relative proportions of ordinary matter and the mysterious dark matter and dark energy thought to make up the bulk of the cosmos — the universe has slightly more matter and dark matter and slightly less dark energy than we thought (see graph).

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.

Notably, studies on the mysterious dark matter have recently revealed a potential fifth force of nature.

The researchers aren't sure what would cause this considerable chill, but suggest that interactions with the eternally - mysterious dark matter could be at play.

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.

«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.

The Milky Way (like other spiral galaxies) is surrounded by a large halo region which contains globular clusters, large clouds of hydrogen gas, and a huge mass of the 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.

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.

Many theories in particle physics predict the existence of a so - called «sterile» neutrino, which would behave differently from the three known types and, if it exists, could provide a route to understanding the mysterious dark matter that makes up 25 percent of the universe.

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.

The discovery, jointly announced by a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and astronomers associated with the Dark Energy Survey — a multinational collaboration of research institutes in the U.S. and Europe — could help scientists unravel the mysterious dark matter that constitutes over 84 percent of all matter in the universe.

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

In a paper published May 2 in Nature Physics, the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) at CERN presented new results on the properties of axions — hypothetical particles with minimal interactions with ordinary matter that therefore could constitute some or all of the mysterious dark matter, which is five times more abundant than normal matter.

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.

«If that idea is confirmed, then we've learned something new and fundamental about the mysterious dark matter that makes up 85 percent of the matter in the universe,» added Bowman in a statement.

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.

However, when CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) recommences operation in May this year, scientists will attempt to test a new model of particle physics — one that attempts to explain the origin of the mysterious dark matter that constitutes over 84 percent of the total matter in the universe.