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Topic: dark matter

Massive black holes in nebula (Getty Images/ sakkmesterke)

Why dark matter's mysteries persist

Elizabeth Hlavinka
This photo taken on Nov. 7, 2023 shows a researcher from Shanghai Jiao Tong University debugging experimental facilities at the Deep Underground and Ultra-low Radiation Background Facility for Frontier Physics Experiments DURF in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xu Bingjie/Xinhua via Getty Images)

New dark matter lab is world's largest

Rae Hodge
Black hole, dark matter, periodic table of elements (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

8 mind-bending science moments in 2023

Rae Hodge
Black hole, dark matter, periodic table of elements (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dark matter's invisible perioidic table

Rae Hodge
This image captures not only Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, but one of the celestial specimens Rubin Observatory will observe when it comes online: the Milky Way. (Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint)

New observatory to map the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Early commissioning test image from Euclid’s Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA)

Europe's telescope shows "dark universe"

Matthew Rozsa
An illustration of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Dark matter-powered stars may exist

Matthew Rozsa
Black hole (Getty Images/Picture Umar)

Black holes don't just suck — they blow

Troy Farah
MOND models—which don’t require dark matter—have not previously been able to reproduce the temperature variations measured in the cosmic microwave background (shown here), a relic from the big bang. But now researchers have created a MOND-inspired model that matches these data just as well as dark matter models do. (WMAP Science Team/NASA)

Perhaps dark matter doesn't exist at all

Nicole Karlis
View Of Earth's Moon Against The Sky At Night (Getty Images/Alexander Rieber/EyeEm)

Moon telescope could explain dark matter

Nicole Karlis
Black Hole (Getty Images)

Is this what dark matter is?

Nicole Karlis
Massive black holes in nebula (Getty Images/ sakkmesterke)

Dark matter's "tethers" between galaxies

Nicole Karlis
he Muon g-2 ring sits in its detector hall amidst electronics racks, the muon beamline, and other equipment. This impressive experiment operates at negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit and studies the precession (or wobble) of muons as they travel through the magnetic field. (Reidar Hahn/Fermilab)

New physics? Or a statistical fluke?

Nicole Karlis, Keith A. Spencer
Sensors on the Large Underground Xenon dark matter detector can register the emission of just a single photon from a dark matter interaction within the detector's giant xenon tank. So far, however, no signs of dark matter have been seen. (Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

We may be close to detecting dark matter

Keith A. Spencer
Sensors on the Large Underground Xenon dark matter detector can register the emission of just a single photon from a dark matter interaction within the detector's giant xenon tank. So far, however, no signs of dark matter have been seen. (Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

Dark matter: the mystery substance

Dan Hooper - The Conversation
(Getty/ClaudioVentrella)

Mapping dark matter

Keith A. Spencer
(Daniel Eisenstein, SDSS-III)

More than just a pretty image

Scott Eric Kaufman
The skeleton of a prehistoric Spinosaurus at Drouot Montaigne auction house in Paris, Nov. 29, 2009. (AP/Francois Mori)

What really killed dinosaurs

Scott Timberg
(Screenshot, MSNBC)

Lindsay Abrams
(John Shearer/invision/AP)

Colin Lecher - Popular Science
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