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Would Doctor Strange think of using a quantum crystal to reveal the secrets of dark matter?

Elizabeth Rayne

Liz Doctor Strange

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The dark force secretly slowing down our galaxy could be dark matter

Elizabeth Rayne

Jun 22, 2021

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What happened to this galaxy’s dark matter?

Phil Plait

Jun 21, 2021

The ultra-diffuse dwarf galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, seen here using Hubble, apparently has little or no dark matter. It’s not clear how this happened. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Zili Shen (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale), Shany Danieli (IAS) Image processing: Aly

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Could the alleged black hole in the center of our galaxy be a ginormous glob of dark matter?

Elizabeth Rayne

Jun 5, 2021

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Deep sky survey shows the Universe is a teeny tiny bit smoother than expected

Phil Plait

May 31, 2021

The galaxy cluster WHL J095921.0+011752, at a distance of about 1.5 billion light years from Earth, was one of many clusters examined in the Dark Energy Survey. Almost everything in this image is a distant galaxy.

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Dark matter might heat exoplanets enough to make them glow

Phil Plait

May 17, 2021

Artist drawing of a solitary brown dwarf in space, glowing feebly in visible light. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Dark matter could be powering a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way until they collide

Elizabeth Rayne

May 1, 2021

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Could destroyed dark matter have created an orb of gamma rays at the center of our galaxy?

Elizabeth Rayne

Apr 9, 2021

NASA image of gamma ray burst

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So much darkness…are supermassive black holes made of dark matter?

Elizabeth Rayne

Mar 3, 2021

supermassive black hole

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

Elizabeth Rayne

Nov 9, 2020

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

Phil Plait

Sep 30, 2020

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