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July 10, 2016

Decoding Light for Clues About Dark Matter

May 29, 2016 — An international team of researchers is developing an instrument that will decode the light of the night sky to understand the nature of dark ... read more

Dwarf Dark Galaxy Hidden in ALMA Gravitational Lens Image

Apr. 14, 2016 — Subtle distortions hidden in ALMA's stunning image of the gravitational lens SDP.81 are telltale signs that a dwarf dark galaxy is lurking in the halo of a much larger galaxy nearly 4 billion ... read more

Supermassive Black Holes Do Not Form from Stellar Black Holes

Apr. 6, 2016 — Astrophysicists have revealed details of how supermassive black holes formed 13 billion years ago, and it's not from normal (stellar size) black holes growing to supermassive ... read more

How Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies Formed from Collapsing Gas Clouds in the Early Universe

Mar. 30, 2016 — Simulations have revealed for the first time exactly how these black holes formed 700 million years after the Big ... read more

What Dark Matter Might Be

Mar. 14, 2016 — There are indications that we might never see the universe's mysterious dark matter. Now researchers turn this somehow depressing scenario into an advantage and propose a new model for what dark ... read more

Dark Matter Satellites Trigger Massive Birth of Stars

Mar. 9, 2016 — Astronomers are presenting a novel analysis of computer simulations, based on theoretical models, that study the interaction of a dwarf galaxy with a dark ... read more

The Expansion of the Universe Simulated

Mar. 7, 2016 — The universe is constantly expanding. But how does our universe evolve? Physicists have now developed a new code of numerical simulations that offers a glimpse of the complex process of the formation ... read more

The Origins of the Universe

Mar. 1, 2016 — An in-depth look at the origins of matter and the environmental conditions that helped shape the universe ... read more

Discovery of a Fast Radio Burst Reveals 'Missing Matter' in the Universe

Feb. 24, 2016 — An international research team used a combination of radio and optical telescopes to identify the precise location of a fast radio burst (FRB) in a distant galaxy, allowing them to conduct a unique ... read more

Black Holes Banish Matter Into Cosmic Voids

Feb. 24, 2016 — We live in a universe dominated by unseen matter, and on the largest scales, galaxies and everything they contain are concentrated into filaments that stretch around the edge of enormous voids. ... read more

New Satellite With Superior X-Ray Vision Launched

Feb. 19, 2016 — Although the star-covered night sky is regarded by many as a synonym of serenity, the cosmos is in fact a rather hostile place. It hosts many extreme environments that would instantaneously eradicate ... read more

Galactic Center's Gamma Rays Unlikely to Originate from Dark Matter, Evidence Shows

Feb. 3, 2016 — Studies by two independent groups from the US and the Netherlands have found that gamma ray signals from the inner galaxy come from a new source rather than from the collision of dark matter ... read more

Bright Sparks Shed New Light on the Dark Matter Riddle

Feb. 1, 2016 — The origin of matter in the universe has puzzled physicists for generations. Today, we know that matter only accounts for 5 percent of our universe; another 25 percent is constituted of dark matter. ... read more

How to Find and Study a Black Hole

Jan. 25, 2016 — Black holes sound too strange to be real. But they are actually pretty common in space. There are dozens known and probably millions more in the Milky Way and a billion times that lurking outside. ... read more

In Galaxy Clustering, Mass May Not Be the Only Thing That Matters

Jan. 25, 2016 — An international team of researchers has shown that the relationship between galaxy clusters and their surrounding dark matter halo is more complex than previously thought. The researchers' ... read more

New Theory of Secondary Inflation Expands Options for Avoiding an Excess of Dark Matter

Jan. 14, 2016 — A new theory suggests a shorter secondary inflationary period that could account for the amount of dark matter estimated to exist throughout the ... read more

Galaxy Quakes Could Improve Hunt for Dark Matter

Jan. 7, 2016 — A trio of brightly pulsating stars at the outskirts of the Milky Way is racing away from the galaxy and may confirm a method for detecting dwarf galaxies dominated by dark matter and explain ripples ... read more

Hubble Captures First-Ever Predicted Exploding Star

Dec. 16, 2015 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the image of the first-ever predicted supernova explosion. The reappearance of the Refsdal supernova was calculated from different models of the ... read more

XXL Hunt for Galaxy Clusters: Observations from ESO Telescopes Provide Crucial Third Dimension in Probe of Universe’s Dark Side

Dec. 15, 2015 — ESO telescopes have provided an international team of astronomers with the gift of the third dimension in a plus-sized hunt for the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe — galaxy ... read more

New Results from World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector

Dec. 14, 2015 — The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has already proven ... read more
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