Dark Matter

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Could the alleged black hole in the center of our galaxy be a ginormous glob of dark matter?
Elizabeth Rayne
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Deep sky survey shows the Universe is a teeny tiny bit smoother than expected
Phil Plait
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
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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
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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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Dark matter is missing from these galaxies, and the reason why is crawling out of the dark
Elizabeth Rayne
Sep 13, 2020
NGC 1052
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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?
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Nov 20, 2019
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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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