23 July 2018
Small box with big designs to find the missing matter in the Universe
... be present. The rest of the Universe is made up dark matter (around 25 percent), an elusive material we have yet to conclusively identify and an even stranger substance known as dark energy. Dark energy refers to a theoretical negative pressure that...
21 July 2021
New balloon-borne astronomical telescope to rival Hubble
...and exoplanet studies, when launched next year, its first science goal is to measure the properties of dark matter particles. Although dark matter is invisible, astronomers can map the way it bends rays of light via a technique known as gravitational...
08 March 2019
Astronomers weigh the galaxy with Hubble and Gaia
...its a huge 1.5 trillion solar masses and most of which is dark matter. If you have ever been to a school fete and seen...from the different methods used for measuring the distribution of dark matter — the elusive material which makes up about 90 percent...
16 February 2018
New study shows Andromeda is not that big after all
... revealed that it is not quite the giant astronomers once thought it was and that is contains far less dark matter than previously estimated. Also known as Messier 31 or M31, the Andromeda galaxy is approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light...
28 November 2018
A hidden giant found lurking close to the Milky Way
...had another detrimental effect on Ant 2 – a serious lack of dark matter keeping it all together. The paucity of stars in UDGs has ...these type of galaxies are made almost entirely out of dark matter. Unfortunately for Ant 2 frequent cosy-ups with the ...
17 November 2017
Excess positrons immersing Earth have unknown origin
... interesting hypothesis at the moment, is that the excess positrons are being produced from the decay or annihilation of dark matter. If this turns out to be true, then these surplus subatomic particles would be the first particles recorded by humans...
