Sentences with phrase «mysterious stuff»

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

However spiritually speaking there's a lot of mysterious stuff in the middle east, many of our troops bring home tales of weird events (the Hum, UFOs, etc) and creatures (salaawahs, werewolves, etc..)

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

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.

There's still a lot of mysterious stuff happening, and some bad - looking military dudes are still out to get the magic boy, but it seems like Michael Shannon is going to do whatever it takes to protect his son (like using a thick accent that involves not moving his mouth a whole lot).

This is such mysterious stuff!

Like cops tracking the wrong person, physicists seeking to identify dark matter — the mysterious stuff whose gravity appears to bind the galaxies — may have been stalking the wrong particle.

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.

That may sound obvious, but many physicists were hoping that photons — particles of light — could help us to piece together the nature of the mysterious stuff thought to make up 85 per cent of the universe's matter.

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.

The finding raises more questions than answers, however, as two other experiments have found no sign of the mysterious stuff, which is thought to create the gravity that holds spinning galaxies together, accounting for about 85 per cent of all matter in the universe.

About 23 percent of the universe consists of dark matter, mysterious stuff that exerts gravitational forces but doesn't interact with light.

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 universe.

Fortunately, dark matter does reveal itself in a subtle way: As light approaches a clump of the mysterious stuff, it bends around it in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.

Only one experiment claims to have seen signs of the mysterious stuff, and now a massive follow - up experiment has failed to find any evidence for that signal.

It was type 1a supernovae that led to the identification of the mysterious stuff in the first place, garnering three cosmologists a Nobel prize earlier this year.

This could reveal smoking - gun signals of dark matter, the mysterious stuff which makes up 80 per cent of the mass in the universe but can't be seen directly.

The discovery of a third type of light associated with dark matter could strengthen the case that we are seeing a signal of the mysterious stuff

Our galaxy resides within a huge «cosmic web» of dark matter, mysterious stuff that so far has revealed itself only through its gravity.

«The fact that we are all immersed in some mysterious stuff [the Higgs field] is amazing, and that we can do the experiment to verify that is also astonishing.»

Data from NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope puts a crimp in particle theorists» favored explanation of the mysterious stuff whose gravity holds the galaxies together, ruling out a hefty range of masses for the hypothesized particles, a team announced this week.

The AMS will also hunt for dark matter, the as - yet - unseen and mysterious stuff that makes up 90 percent of the universe's matter.

THE world's most powerful telescopes are being turned on distant supernovae to close in on dark energy, the mysterious stuff that is thought to be pulling the universe apart.

The mysterious stuff makes up about a quarter of the universe, five times more than the ordinary matter of atoms and molecules.

A recent explanation for the identity of the mysterious stuff leads to a scenario in which it could be to blame for the extinctions of dinosaurs, or at least send a few extra comets shooting our way.

DARK energy — the mysterious stuff that is causing the universe's expansion to accelerate — could be illuminated by another dark enigma: the black hole.

Many models of dark matter hold that the mysterious stuff comes in the form of weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs — that is, particles that interact via the weak nuclear force in addition to gravity.

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.

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.

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.

Deep inside an abandoned iron mine in northern Minnesota, physicists may have spotted the clearest signal yet of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that is thought to make up 90 per cent of the mass of the universe.

Dark matter — the mysterious stuff that we know is there, but have no clue what it's made of.

It is well known that 85 % of the universe is dark matter, but to find such a huge galaxy so rich in the mysterious stuff is extremely rare.

Dr. Efstathiou was honored in part for his contributions to our understanding of one the biggest puzzles in the universe: dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up 85 percent of all matter in the universe but still hasn't been directly seen.

Seriously, it's mysterious stuff.