26 May 2016
Are primordial black holes the source of dark matter?
... what exactly dark matter is made up of, is an area of active research and although weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS) is one of the most favoured theories to explain what dark matter is, evidence of these hypothetical particles has yet...
03 March 2017
Dark Matter Map revealed by researchers
... from the source as it travels towards the observer. Dark matter particles, such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS), are thought by many to provide the unseen mass that is responsible for gravitational lensing, as it bends light from...
06 December 2021
Astronomers find a galaxy with no dark matter
... have been proposed to account for what it might be, such as so-called weakly interacting massive particles (‘WIMPs’), gravitinos or axions – hypothetical ultralight particles used to describe the behavior of subatomic particles. However, in the...
