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...spherical to match observations. Astronomers have responded by coming up with two alternative theories: warm dark matter, or self-interacting dark matter. Recent observations by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, however, seem...

Science Media Abandons Empiricism

...about primordial black holes, invisible dark matter, and moyboy speculation, relying on materialist cosmologists like Sarah Geller (UC Santa Cruz) with their computer models to hold the hot potato for...

Dark Matter Searches Continue to Fail

...signs of dark matter. However, they let us rule out a lot of possibilities. Pioneering research suggests nature of dark matter is more elusive than ever (28 Aug 2024, Univ...

Motley Origins News

...still confusing Darwinism with engineering. It’s a reflection of the biased education they’re getting from K-grad school. Dark Matter: Another blow for dark matter as biggest hunt yet finds nothing...

Cosmic Tension: Modern Cosmology Has Big Holes

...plus dark matter, dark energy, and inflation. Inflation is a hypothetical period of super-fast expansion that occurred in the first split-second after the Big Bang banged. In short, the May...

Big Bang Cosmology Still in Crisis

...the haloes, says Román. Photograph of dark matter. White background provided for contrast. But if astronomers do not know what dark matter is—if they have no observable particle to explain...

Physicists Love the Dark

...2023). Like snipe hunters, cosmologists think that if they find more places where dark matter is not, they are getting warmer! Watch how they stay excited by non-detections. Dark Matter...

Scientists: Often Wrong, Rarely Humble

...leads us to the suggestion that the particle era in science must undergo an important conceptual reconfiguration. The puzzle of the galaxy with no dark matter (Institute of Astrophysics of...

Axions: Another Dark Matter Candidate Not Found

...spent on a failed quest? The search must go on! Narrowing the theoretical space in which to look for dark matter (CERN via Phys.org, 5 Dec 2022). Will dark matter...

Will Dark Matter Theorists See the Light?

Some cosmologists are seriously considering dark matter theory to be a blunder.   Will dark matter vanish in the light of evidence and logic? Will it be remembered as a...

The Gravity of the Situation Confounds Physicists

...how galaxies move. Bowler accepts the common belief that dark matter explains the way spiral galaxies can rotate faster than expected, but dark matter alone doesn’t solve the rotation curve...

Cosmologists Reverse Their Dogmas

...that might explain dark matter. Dark matter was first postulated in the 1960s from the study of spiral galaxies. The calculations indicated then that these enormous collections of billions of...

How to Become an Expert in Ignorance

...out. But is this quackery or science? Believers in dark matter think that dark matter, with dark energy, make up 95% of reality. In other words, they continue to believe...

Cosmic Disturbances Shake Astronomer Confidence

...and white background provided for easier detection. Dark Matter Updates The search for dark matter keeps coming up empty. Here’s the latest scuttlebutt; some of it may be scuttled, leaving...

Antimatter Problem Still Defies Natural Explanation

...arisen about the form dark matter takes, with the currently dominant cold dark matter theory predicting that it exists in clumps called halos with small basic units, as opposed to...
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