News tagged with dark matter
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World's largest particle collider may unlock secrets of universe
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, could generate astonishing new insights into the Big Bang, the building blocks of the universe, the mysterious ...
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Seeking dark matter on a desktop
Desktop experiments could point the way to dark matter discovery, complementing grand astronomical searches and deep underground observations. According to recent theoretical results, small blocks of matter ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Study validates general relativity on cosmic scale, existence of dark matter
(PhysOrg.com) -- An analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by University of California, Berkeley, University of Zurich and Princeton University physicists demonstrates that the universe - at least up to a distance ...
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Geneva atom smasher seeks dark matter discoveries
(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher could generate its first scientific breakthrough later this year when operators hope to make discoveries into the elusive nature of dark matter, the director of the ...
Mar 08, 2010 |
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Bully galaxy rules the neighborhood (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In general, galaxies can be thought of as "social" — hanging out in groups and frequently interacting. However, this recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image highlights how some galaxies ...
Mar 04, 2010 |
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World's most powerful atom smasher restarts: CERN
Scientists have restarted the world's most powerful atom-smasher overnight, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Sunday, as they launch a new bid to uncover the secrets of the universe.
Feb 28, 2010 |
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UCLA 'dark matter' conference highlights new research on mysterious cosmic substance
Dark matter, for more than 70 years as mysterious and unknowable a subject to science as the legendary island of Atlantis has been to history, is bringing 140 scientists from the U.S., Europe and Asia to the Marriott Hotel ...
Feb 25, 2010 |
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ESA chooses 3 scientific missions for further study
Dark energy, habitable planets around other stars, and the mysterious nature of our own Sun, have been chosen by ESA as candidates for two medium-class missions to be launched no earlier than 2017.
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Feb 19, 2010 |
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Exploring the secrets of dark matter
Even the biggest Star Trek fan would probably have trouble understanding the technical details of the research done by Queen's University Particle Astrophysics Professor Wolfgang Rau of Kingston, Canada.
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Dark matter or background noise? Results intriguing but not conclusive
Physicists may have glimpsed a particle that is a leading candidate for mysterious dark matter but say conclusive evidence remains elusive.
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Weak Lensing Gains Strength
(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab cosmologists were part of an international team that has extended the relationship between the x-ray luminosity and the mass of galaxy clusters as measured by gravitational lensing, ...
Jan 19, 2010 |
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Astrophysicists unwind 'Cold Dark Matter Catastrophe' conundrum
For nearly twenty years scientists have been trying to resolve the discrepancy in the cold dark matter paradigm - the so-called "Cold Dark Matter catastrophe". Recently an international research group including physics professor ...
Jan 14, 2010 |
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New research resolves conflict in theory of how galaxies form (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than two decades, the cold dark matter theory has been used by cosmologists to explain how the smooth universe born in the big bang more than 13 billion years ago evolved into the ...
Jan 13, 2010 |
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How Galaxies Came To Be: Astronomers Explain Hubble Sequence
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, two astronomers have explained the diversity of galaxy shapes seen in the universe. The scientists, Dr Andrew Benson of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ...
Jan 12, 2010 |
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New tidal streams found in Andromeda reveal history of galactic mergers
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers has identified two new tidal streams in the Andromeda galaxy, the remnants of dwarf galaxies consumed by our large galactic neighbor. Analysis of the stars ...
Jan 07, 2010 |
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