March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... in general, and its ability to uncover the mysteries of the Universe also extends to the search for elusive dark matter. e-ASTROGAM will have an unprecedented sensitivity to detect a possible cosmic gamma-ray signal from the annihilation or decay...
29 May 2020
Cosmic bursts solve Universe's 'missing matter' problem
... shapes, distributions, and movements of galaxies spread throughout the cosmos. From this conundrum came the idea of dark matter, an as of yet unknown type of matter that makes up most of the material of the Universe. But even when this mysterious...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
...that we now associate with dark energy, while the CDM part stands for Cold Dark Matter. The model is frequently referred...Euclid’s mission is to map the geometry of the dark Universe by investigating the distance-redshift relationship and the evolution...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
... that was initially designed to search for the elusive substance which makes up around 80 percent of the Universe – dark matter – scientists have found 300 minor planets located in the far reaches of the Solar System, including 139...
25 June 2015
The story behind ultra dark galaxies
An “ultra dark galaxy” sounds like a song title from a ...i.e. shiny spirals, they are regularly shaped, and therefore may contain great amounts of dark matter. The discovery of these galaxies also shows that the Subaru telescope, which, incidentally, ...
27 January 2017
Distant quasars help refine the rate of the expanding Universe
... astronomy as it can help to confirm or refute whether our picture of the Universe – composed of dark energy, dark matter and normal matter – is actually correct, or if we are missing something fundamental," Suyu said. The figure presented by the...
