Sentences with phrase «rely on dark matter»

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.

Not exact matches

A spiral galaxy (same goes for a spherical planet, a galaxy cluster, a comet) is shaped by forces big and small that rely on the physical properties of matter, energy, dark energy, and dark matter.

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.

Experiments like SuperCDMS and LUX - ZEPLIN rely on metal germanium crystals and liquid xenon, respectively, as their dark matter finders.

Instead it relies on identifying dark matter signal events by their time dependence.

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Astronomer Avi Loeb of Harvard University says the idea of dark matter stars «relies on idealized assumptions that may not be realized in nature.»

This behavior relies on the curvature of spacetime and will provide insight into the luminous and dark matter in the lensing galaxy.

Because the instrument can't directly observe dark matter, astronomers relied on gravitational lensing.

Typically her images rely on a tension between an apparently approachable subject matter and a darker, sometimes disturbing subtext.