Sentences with phrase «year about dark matter»

«Hundreds of studies come out every year about dark matter, cosmology, star formation, and galaxy formation, using the Milky Way as a guide.

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Are you not the least bit skeptical about the unproven speculative inflation field or dark matter necessary to claim our universe is 8 billion years old not 14 billion?

This is subtext for» No matter how normal I appear on the surface, you are about to become the catalyst and custodian of some inner demon or dark secret that i've managed to contain for years».

As the cosmos expanded, matter gradually spread out, and its gravitational grip weakened, hitting a balance with dark energy about 5 billion years ago, causing the expansion to coast at a steady rate for a while, neither accelerating nor slowing down.

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).

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 dark matter was about 1000 light - years across and had an even density equivalent to four hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter.

In the case of dark matter — the unseen something that seems to make up about five - sixths of the matter in the universe — the confusion has been building for a good 84 years, and shows no sign of going away.

Researchers surmise that those dark matter clumps acted as gravitational anchors in the early universe, about 13 billion years ago.

This week, we chat about how the Earth is sending oxygen to the moon, using a GPS data set to hunt for dark matter, and retrieving 80 - million year old proteins from dinosaur bones, with Online News Editor David Grimm.

This image shows a standard prediction for the dark matter distribution within about 1 million light years of the Milky Way galaxy, which is expected to be swarming with thousands of small dark matter clumps called «halos».

Before he came to Mainz University in 2010, Oberlack had already worked for about ten years in the field of dark matter research and high energy astrophysics in the United States.

Measurements of extremely distant gas halos and galaxies indicate the baryonic matter present when the universe was only a few billion years old represented about one - sixth the mass and density of the existing unobservable, or dark, matter.

And while galaxies believed to be made up almost entirely of dark matter have been discovered before, they are usually quite small, such as VIRGOHI21 — about 50 million light - years away, it appears to contain no visible stars, has 99.9 percent dark matter and is about 10th the size of Milky Way.

For example, in 2011, two teams used data from Chandra's X-ray Observatory and other instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope to map the distribution of dark matter in a galaxy cluster known as Abell 383, which is located about 2.3 billion light - years from Earth.

Mark Harris» latest Grantland column about the ugliness of Oscar season — the Age of Outrage meeting Oscar season but lest we forget what happened to Zero Dark Thirty last year, and Lincoln for that matter.

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According to Catherine Lampert, Auerbach's model of over 35 years: «It wasn't that he intended to document something about post-war London or paint dark pictures, it was that he didn't feel he could turn his back on that raw subject matter.»