Acrylic tanks provide clear window into dark matter detection
Scientists have a new window into the search for dark matter – an acrylic vessel that features a grouping of 12-foot-tall transparent tanks with 1-inch-thick walls.
Oct 17, 2018
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Researchers reveal the story of the oldest stars and galaxies, compiled from 20 years of simulating the early universe
The Big Bang has captured our imagination like no other theory in science: the magnificent, explosive birth of our Universe. But do you know what came next?
Missing gamma-ray blobs shed new light on dark matter, cosmic magnetism
When astrophysicists look at the gamma-ray glow from a galaxy outside our own, all they typically see is a small spot because the galaxy is extremely far away. So, when a galaxy appears as an extended blob, something extraordinary ...
Fermilab scientists to look for dark matter using quantum technology
Fermilab scientists are harnessing quantum technology in the search for dark matter.
Galaxy NGC 3256 contains substantial amounts of dark matter, study suggests
A new era in the quest for dark matter
Since the 1970s, astronomers and physicists have been gathering evidence for the presence in the universe of dark matter: a mysterious substance that manifests itself through its gravitational pull. However, despite much ...
Black holes ruled out as universe's missing dark matter
For one brief shining moment after the 2015 detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, astronomers held out hope that the universe's mysterious dark matter might consist of a plenitude of black holes sprinkled ...
Possible explanation for excess of electron neutrinos detected by IceCube Neutrino Observatory
A pair of researchers with the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark has come up with a possible explanation for the excess of electron neutrinos detected by researchers at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. In their paper published ...
Hyper Suprime-Cam survey maps dark matter in the universe
Today, an international group of researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University's Rachel Mandelbaum, released the deepest wide field map of the three-dimensional distribution of matter in the universe ever made and increased ...
A quantum leap toward expanding the search for dark matter
Figuring out how to extend the search for dark matter particles – dark matter describes the stuff that makes up an estimated 85 percent of the total mass of the universe yet so far has only been measured by its gravitational ...
