03 May 2017
Milky Way dark matter still as elusive as ever
... with a population of about 1,000 pulsars and without introducing processes that involve dark matter particles." While it might seem disappointing that dark matter still remains elusive as ever, the new study demonstrates that the speckled gamma...
04 August 2017
Most accurate measurement of Universe's dark matter revealed by DES survey
... years. "The DES measurements, when compared with the Planck map, support the simplest version of the dark matter/dark energy theory," said Joe Zuntz, of the University of Edinburgh, who worked on the analysis. "For the first...
29 March 2018
A see-through galaxy questions the need for dark matter
...’t have any, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist at all, rather that dark matter is somehow separable from galaxies and this would happen if dark matter is bound to ordinary matter through gravity alone and nothing else. And what about NGC...
30 May 2018
Effective size of dark matter established in experiment
...else about it. And that assumption still holds true today. Dark matter is estimated to make up roughly 80 percent of the..., we have now tested many new theoretical models of dark matter and placed the strongest constraints on these models to date...
04 March 2020
A new candidate for dark matter is identified
...identified sub-atomic particle could change all of that. Dark matter’s existence has a long history. It was first...establishing whether d-star hexaquarks are a viable contender to explain dark matter or not is to test their theory with scientists in ...
26 May 2016
Are primordial black holes the source of dark matter?
... yet to be confirmed. "These studies are providing increasingly sensitive results, slowly shrinking the box of parameters where dark matter particles can hide," Kashlinsky said. "The failure to find them has led to renewed interest in studying how...
