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18 Jun 2020

Search for dark matter helps scientists detect unexplained signal

A team of scientists searching for signs of dark matter has detected an unexplained signal. Scientists working on the Xenon1T experiment said that more activity was observed within their detector than expected otherwise.

11 Apr 2018

Dark matter making us blind to alien life: Study

Our limited understanding of dark matter and energy may be making us blind to signals from intelligent alien life, which possibly exist in dimensions that humans cannot perceive.

13 Feb 2018

45-year-old US telescope to help scientists solve mystery of dark matter

The new instrument would begin a five-year observing run at Kitt Peak National Observatory after its installation next year.

02 Feb 2018

Dark matter-based cosmology model defied by ordered dwarf galaxies

The researchers were able to show that 14 of the 16 satellite galaxies follow the same pattern of movement and are likely rotating within the plane around the main galaxy.

23 Nov 2017

Dark matter, dark energy may not exist: Study

For close to a century, researchers have hypothesised that the universe contains more matter than can be directly observed, known as "dark matter".

04 Oct 2017

Instruments used in detection of gravitational waves can also unveil dark matter enigma

Calculations show that certain types of dark matter could form giant clouds around astrophysical black holes.

04 Aug 2017

Most accurate measurement of elusive dark matter made

Most notably, the result supports the theory that 26 percent of the universe is in the form of mysterious dark matter and that space is filled with an also-unseen dark energy, which is causing the accelerating expansion of the universe and makes up 70 percent.

International Space Station

09 Mar 2017

NASA is creating 'coolest spot' in Universe – Know how, where

The suite of instruments, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US, is called the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL).

02 Mar 2017

Scientists create highest-resolution 3D maps of dark matter

Scientists believe dark matter - theorised, unseen particles that neither reflect nor absorb light, but are able to exert gravity - may comprise 80 per cent of the matter in the universe.

22 Feb 2017

NASA's Fermi detects evidence of dark matter in Andromeda galaxy

The gamma-ray signal detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is similar to one seen by Fermi at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

09 Feb 2017

NASA's Chandra satellite detects galactic X-rays, hinting at existence of dark matter

Scientists claimed that a small but distinctive X-ray signal detected from the Milky Way galaxy by NASA's Chandra satellite may help prove the existence of dark matter.

17 Jan 2017

Researchers find dark matter 'killing galaxies'

The study combined the world's largest galaxy survey -- the Sloan Digital Sky Survey -- with the largest ever set of radio observations for atomic gas -- the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey in order to solve the case.

31 Dec 2016

Scientists discover dark matter lost since birth of universe

Scientists, for the first time, have been able to measure the amount of dark matter the Universe has lost since the Big Bang some 13.7 billion years ago.

Thanu Padmanabhan

02 Dec 2016

Indian astrophysicist Thanu Padmanabhan wins 10-year-old bet on dark matter

Padmanabhan had offered a bet to the audience that in the next ten years there will be no evidence to contradict the theory that dark energy is the root cause of accelerated expansion of the universe.

16 Aug 2016

Fifth force of nature a strong possibility: Scientists

A previously unknown subatomic light particle may be evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature and a key to understanding dark matter in universe, according to theoretical physicists at the University of California - Irvine (UCI), US.

Large Underground Xenon

25 Jul 2016

World's most sensitive detector 'LUX' finds no dark matter

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX), world’s most sensitive particle detector, has failed to yield any evidence of dark matter.

25 May 2016

Primordial black holes and dark matter are linked: NASA

According to astrophysicist Alexander Kashlinsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, this interpretation aligns with our knowledge of cosmic infrared and X-ray background glows and may explain the unexpectedly high masses of merging black holes detected last year.

15 Mar 2016

New model to decode what invisible dark matter is

More than 10 different experiments are planned.

28 Feb 2016

Cosmic voids may contain 20% of universe's 'normal' matter

Researchers also found that a surprising fraction of normal matter - 20 per cent - is likely to be have been transported into the voids.

14 Feb 2016

We maybe closing in on dark matter

Its discovery would be a fundamental development in understanding the physical universe, a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will hear.

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