Aug 30, 2015 7:00 AM. Dark Matter May Be More Complex Than Physicists Thought. ... Dark matter—the unseen 80 percent of the universe’s mass—doesn’t emit, absorb or reflect light.

But okay, okay, dark matter: The "darkness," in this case, refers to the matter's ability to not interact with itself, or anything at all but gravity: When clusters of galaxies collide, it seems ...

If dark matter does turn out to be axions, it will be good news in one sense at least: physicists will be able to directly detect and experiment with dark matter, a boon for cosmology.

The past few weeks have brought a bevy of dark matter announcements. Some of the observations and claims have been genuinely thrilling, but some have been dubious. ... Apr 22, 2015 1:00 PM.

A new study examined the galaxy cluster Abell 3827 and found indications that dark matter could be self-interacting. If confirmed, this would mark a significant step forward in the ongoing quest ...

Dark matter — a poorly understood substance that does not emit, absorb or reflect light but exerts a clear gravitational influence on other matter — dominates the universe. Despite being more ...

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Apr 16, 2015, 12:08pm EDT Apr 17, 2015, 12:17pm EDT. Share. Save. This article is more than 10 years old. ... For the first time, the dark matter in one of the colliding objects ...

2015-04-14T18:25:00Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon in the shape of a ... The blue parts of the map show where dark matter has an average concentration, ...

As 2019 nears, physicists are hard at work on the next generation of dark matter detectors, ... (LIGO), the American detector that directly observed the first gravitational waves in 2015, ...

Scientists studying the earliest black holes may have found an explanation for dark matter, putting Stephen Hawking’s theory on the subject back into the spotlight.