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Are neutron stars blasting out dark matter?

Phil Plait

Feb 1, 2021

Artwork depicting the magnetic field surrounding a neutron star. Credit: Casey Reed / Penn State University

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

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Axions, dark matter, and neutron stars: How to find the Universe's most mysterious matter

Phil Plait

Jan 4, 2021

Dark matter is thought to have formed a huge web in the early Universe, like this model from a computer simulation, allowing galaxies to form along the filaments. Credit: Springel et al. / The Millennium Simulation Project

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Tag: Black Holes

Is dark matter made of teeny tiny black holes from another universe? Welllll…

Phil Plait

Dec 30, 2020

Fanciful artwork of baby universes spawning and growing in the first moments of our own Universe’s existence. Credit：Kavli IPMU

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Tag: Neill Blomkamp

WIRE Buzz: Neil Blomkamp's secret pandemic project; Apple's Dark Matter series; and Doctor Who Yule log

Josh Weiss

Dec 8, 2020

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Tag: gravitational lensing

This is the closest we’ve ever gotten to seeing dark matter

Elizabeth Rayne

Nov 9, 2020

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Tag: galaxy clusters

What's the matter with the Universe? About 31%.

Phil Plait

Sep 30, 2020

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Dark matter is missing from these galaxies, and the reason why is crawling out of the dark

Elizabeth Rayne

Sep 13, 2020

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What's the matter with dark matter? Observations show we're missing something.

Phil Plait

Sep 11, 2020

The galaxy cluster S1063 is a collection of hundreds of galaxies and is strewn with dark matter. This acts as a gravitational lens, distorting the light form more distant galaxies into arcs, which you can see throughout the center of this Hubble image.

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Science Behind the Fiction: Rick and Morty's time machine runs on Dark Matter. What is that?

Cassidy Ward

Nov 20, 2019

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Tag: antimatter

What could antimatter illuminate about the dark universe of dark matter?

Elizabeth Rayne

Nov 18, 2019

NASA image of a galaxy used to search for antimatter

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Super spiral galaxies are huge and bright… and spin *really* rapidly

Phil Plait

Oct 21, 2019

Super spirals are huge spiral galaxies far larger and more massive than the Milky Way. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Ogle and J. DePasquale (STScI). Bottom row: SDSS, P. Ogle and J. DePasquale (STScI)

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The Human Cube: The volume of humanity

Phil Plait

Oct 16, 2018

A cube made of all humans on Earth in comparison to the Golden Gate Bridge. The scale is close but not perfect due to perspective. Credit: Crew and Officers of NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN / Phil Plait

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What is this galaxy doing without a dark matter halo?

Phil Plait

Mar 28, 2018

This Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 1052-DF2 shows it as a faint bluish glow, and we see far more distant background galaxies right through it. Credit: P. van Dokkum; R. Abraham; STScI, Space Telescope Science Institute

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Dark Matter 3.13 recap: So you just punched a hole in the universe

Tricia Ennis

Aug 25, 2017

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Dark Matter 3.12 recap: Time for an awkward dinner party

Tricia Ennis

Aug 18, 2017

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