$60 Million Project With Specialized Detector LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) to Find Dark Matter Already Operating in South Dakota

Medicine & Technology Jul 09, 2022

A team of 250 scientists in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota constructed the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector. Continue reading to know more about the progress of the project.

Sagittarius A* Might Not Be a Black Hole After All, Hints Toward Dark Matter Mass

Jun 03, 2021

For several years, the scientific consensus is that the dark mass in the middle of the Milky Way, designated Sagittarius A*, is a black hole - and a new study is challenging the widely-accepted notion.

Optical Clocks Narrow Down the Search for Dark Matter

Oct 25, 2020

Researchers have used the accuracy of optical clocks to close in on the mysterious components of dark matter, as well as the coupling between parts - particles and fields - postulated by the standard model of physics.

Dark Distortions: Art Installation Demonstrates How Dark Matter Interacts With Light

Aug 13, 2020

Dark matter remains one of the most mysterious occurrences in the known Universe, and a new artwork helps explain how it interacts with light.

LIGO Detected Gravitational Waves That Intrigues The Nature Of Black Holes & Dark Matter For The Third Time

Jun 05, 2017

Physicists from LIGO has detected gravitational waves for the third time.

Astronomers Redesign PICO Bubble Chamber to Detect The Trace of Dark Matter in WIMPs

May 24, 2017

Astronomers redesigned the PICO bubble chamber to search for the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) as the trace of dark matter.

New Unit BAO Reveled By Astronomers To Measure The Distances Between Galaxies And Quasars

May 20, 2017

By plotting supermassive black holes from the distant universe, researchers have revealed the large-scale of the distant universe. Scientists say it's the first time such a technique has been used to map the cosmos.

Evidence of Dark Matter Emits Gamma Rays Radiation Has Weakened with Latest Analysis

Apr 26, 2017

New evidence shows that other part of galaxies also emits excessive radiation of gamma rays, not only dark matter, leaving the mystery remains unsolved.

The Biggest Mystery Of The Entire Universe: What The Dark Matter Really Is

Mar 23, 2017

New observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed that the outer parts of massive disc galaxies 10 billion years ago were rotating less quickly than the spiral galaxies, like the Milky Way, that we see today. This ESOcast Light summarizes the important points of this discovery and the significance of the dark matter, and how it is distributed.

Hunting For Dark Matter: Physicist Establish An Underground Facility In An Abandoned Gold Mine

Mar 13, 2017

To discover this Dark Particle scientist arranged for a more improved experiment of previous LUX and ZEPLIN Dark Matter program.

Could Dark Matter and Black Holes Cause the Swirl In Your Galaxy?

Feb 21, 2015

Ever seen a snapshot of the universe and wondered just how and what makes the beautiful swirling shapes that modern telescopes now let us see? Imagery of the Horsehead Nebula, the Pillars of Creation, and even the Rose Galaxies have captivated researchers and the public for decades, but finding exactly what causes space dust, planets and stars to conform in such elegant forms has often eluded astronomers studying the infinite wonders of space. But a new study conducted by researchers with the Harvard University Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) reveals that the connection between collections of stars and the elliptical shapes of galaxies may have something to do with dark matter and the presence of black holes at the center of every galactic mass.

Eons After the Big Bang, and 80 Years After It Was Proposed, Dark Matter Takes Form in Andromeda

Dec 15, 2014

For decades now, researchers have long believed that the ever-elusive dark matter has comprised roughly 80 percent of the entire universe’s mass. But in spite of advancing technology, taking astronomers past the moon to far off comets/planets and back, researchers have not yet been able to identify the existence of dark matter in our galaxy or any other, and have not yet been able to isolate the hypothetical invisible particles in Earth labs either. But in what appears to be a strange X-ray emission from nearby galactic clusters, two independent European research teams believe that they may have found the first true dark matter known to man—and it’s not too far away either.

Strange Andromeda Transmission May be First Sign of Dark Matter

Dec 13, 2014

While the ever elusive “dark matter” was first proposed by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in the early 1930s, a team of European scientists this week believe that they may have detected the first ever evidence of dark matter in mysterious photo emissions of the X-ray spectra, emitting from the Andromeda galaxy, the Draco dwarf galaxy, and other galactic clusters far outside our own solar system.