Dark Matter as an Escape
May 14, 2012
...of dark matter, the mysterious substance thought to pervade the universe.” According to a survey of satellite galaxies of the Milky Way conducted at the University of Bonn, dark matter...
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Loving Dark Matter Rather Than Light
December 31, 2011
...dark about dark matter (PhysOrg): “Dark matter, the mysterious stuff thought to make up about 80 percent of matter in the universe, has become even more inscrutable.” Variable dark energy...
Trouble in Cosmologyland
September 18, 2011
...of dark matter. That does not mean dark matter is real; only that it has not been ruled out by these unexplained detections. Antimatter, anti-dark matter: Meanwhile, other detectors are...
Water, Water Everywhere in Space
July 23, 2011
...galaxies as slow eaters, not gas guzzlers. Dark matters: Astronomers in east Europe and Russia are claiming that mysterious unknown stuff, usually called dark matter, evolves the same way as...
Is Star Formation Understood?
February 22, 2011
...seem that if astronomers don’t understand what triggers star formation, or how it varies from place to place, they don’t understand it very much at all. Dark matter anomalies: Dark...
Dark Energy: Can a Theoretical Entity Be Measured?
July 17, 2010
...integral part of his theory, and the current Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model employs it, there is no mystery. Dark matter is not a substance, they said. It is part...
Dark Matter: Where Is It?
July 30, 2009
...this so-named “dark matter?” An even trickier question is where? As in where is this dark matter? It is those two questions that have plagued physicists for decades. Dark matter,...
Dark Matters, When All You Have Is Light
August 30, 2008
...formed if we didn’t have dark matter,” one said. How he knows this, never having watched a galaxy form, and never having seen dark matter, is somewhat of a dark...
Cosmology in Crisis Over Dark Energy
May 21, 2008
...useful while such beings are completely out of touch with reality. Dark matter and dark energy at the moment have all the attributes of occult phenomena. We will have to...
Dark Matter Sheds Light on Invisible Stars: Come Again?
September 17, 2007
...in the BBC News: “We don’t know what the dark matter is, we don’t know what the first stars are. If we bring these two problems together, when we know...
Cosmologists in Search of Dark Ghosts
July 23, 2007
Dark matter and dark energy: do they exist? Cosmologists and physicists are spending large amounts of money building huge and expensive detectors to find them, but so far have found...
Whistling in the Dark Matter Debate
September 7, 2006
Who’s right? Douglas Clowe’s team at U of Arizona claimed two weeks ago that they found dark matter in the Bullet Cluster – they even had a picture of it. ...
Searchers in the Dark Over Dark Matter
May 10, 2004
No sooner had Sean Carroll published his essay in Nature1 that dark matter proves how insignificant we are, that Geoff Brumfiel tells us in Nature Science Update that researchers can’t...
Are Dark Matter and Dark Energy the New Epicycles?
February 10, 2004
An article in The Economist suggests that dark matter and dark energy may not be necessary to understand the structure of the universe. It refers to two recent papers that...
Dark Energy Is Embarrassing
July 20, 2002
Robert Scherrer is trying to come up with a theory that combines dark matter and dark energy, reports Space.Com. “It is somewhat embarrassing to have two different unknown sources for...