Research conducted by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology rules out a challenge to the accepted standard model of the universe and theory of how galaxies form by shedding new light on a problematic structure.
Long ago, physicists identified and categorized the components of the visible universe. Up until recently, 16 particles formed everything in the known universe. But now, thanks to the efforts of physicists at CERN working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), we have added another particle, the Higgs boson, to the Standard Model of physics.
A small but distinctive signal in X-rays from the Milky Way could be key to proving the existence of dark matter.
Astronomers in the US are setting up an experiment which, if it fails – as others have – could mark the end of a 30-year-old theory
The universe is suspected to be loosing its mass ever since the big bang.
New research may cause scientists to rethink everything we think we know about dark matter.
This map of dark matter in the Universe was obtained from data from the KiDS survey, using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
One of the great mysteries of the cosmos is why it is expanding at an apparently accelerating rate.
THE end of the universe is about to get interesting. Most data favours a slow fade into a silent, frozen oblivion. But a new analysis suggests the cosmos could gradually tear itself apart, galaxy from galaxy and atom from atom. Or at least, we can’t rule it out.
Using the Large Underground Xenon (LUX), scientists have discovered something about dark matter that brings up more questions than answers.
