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First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists conjectured that the missing mass in the universe was made up of small ...

Spiral galaxies, like Messier 77 shown here, helped astronomers learn about the existence of dark matter. NASA, ESA & A. van der Hoeven, CC BY Imagine an epic video game with your favorite hero as a ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Imagine an epic video game with your favorite hero as a character. Another character is a ...

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A team of astronomers say they may have detected dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up over 85 percent of all matter in the universe, for the first time in history. The claim is ...

We may have seen the first hints of strange stars powered by dark matter. These so-called dark stars could explain several of the most mysterious objects in the universe, while also giving us hints ...

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our galaxy, but more information is needed to confirm the result. When you purchase ...

After nearly a century of experts theorizing and searching for the universe’s most elusive component, a Japanese astronomer believes he has finally captured the first direct glimpse of dark matter, a ...

Nov. 26 (UPI) --More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter. Scientists have been able to indirectly observe dark ...

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...

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