Large Hadron Collider to Be Restarted in Hunt for Dark Matter
Scientists at Europe's physics research centre will this week fire up the 27 kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the machine that found the Higgs…
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A New Tool for Finding Dark Matter Digs Up Nothing
Even the strongest gravitational waves that pass through the planet, created by the distant collisions of black holes, only stretch and compress each mile of…
Scientists Map the Dark Matter Web Surrounding the Milky Way
Astronomers have naturally focused their telescopes on the part of the universe closest to us, since those stars and galaxies can be examined in the greatest…
Any Single Galaxy Reveals the Composition of an Entire Universe
A group of scientists may have stumbled upon a radical new way to do cosmology.Cosmologists usually determine the composition of the universe by observing as…
Astrophysicists Release the Biggest Map of the Universe Yet
After just seven months, a huge team of scientists who work with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument have already mapped a larger swath of the cosmos…
Astronomers Discover a Strange Galaxy Without Dark Matter
Three years ago, Filippo Fraternali and his colleagues spotted a half dozen mysteriously diffuse galaxies, which looked like sprawling cities of stars and…
The Great Neutrino Mystery Could Point to Missing Particles
In 1993, deep underground at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, a few flashes of light inside a bus-size tank of oil kicked off a detective story…