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Study discusses distant galaxies and true nature of dark matter
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Trieste [Italy], February 14 (ANI): There is a vast spherical region made up of dark matter particles, at the centre of spiral galaxies. This region has two defining characteristics: a density that is constantly out to a certain radius that amazingly expands over time, while the density decr
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Motion of some stars holds clue of dark matter shape in barred galaxies
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Dark matter forms the skeleton on which galaxies form, evolve, and merge. Scientists investigating how the shape of dark matter halo affects the motion of stars in stellar bars (found at the centre of some galaxies) have found that out-of-plane bending ev
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The Milky Way's feeding habits reveal dark matter
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Chicago [US], January 17 (ANI): A new study has revealed the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a new map of twelve streams of stars orbiting within our galactic halo.
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Dark matter destruction ruled out in galactic center
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the centre of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they were seeing evidence of the annihilation of dark matter particles, but a t
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Holding up mirror to a dark matter discrepancy
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): The universe's funhouse mirrors are revealing a difference between how dark matter behaves in theory and how it appears to act in reality.
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Fresh antimatter study will help search for dark matter
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 29 (ANI): The ALICE collaboration has presented new results on the production rates of antideuterons based on data collected at the highest collision energy delivered so far at the Large Hadron Collider.
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New study suggests new paths for catching signals of dark matter particles
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 5 (ANI): Dark matter has so far defied every type of detector designed to find it because of its huge gravitational footprint in space.
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Study sheds light on infant universe, origin of matter
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Michigan [USA], Mar 10 (ANI): A new study, conducted to better understand the origin of the universe, has provided an insight into the ways in which the Standard Model of particle physics is extended to explain the cosmological excess of matter over antimatter.
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Physicists propose new candidate particle that makes "dark matter"
Updated : 6 years ago IST
York [England], Mar 4 (ANI): Scientists have identified a sub-atomic particle that could have formed the "dark matter" in the universe during the Big Bang.
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Scientists attempt to measure temperature of dark matter
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
California [USA], Jan 16 (ANI): We know that it exists and makes up about a quarter of our universe, but we have yet to see a particle of the elusive dark matter.
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Study reveals composition of dark matter present in dark galaxies
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Trieste (Italy), Dec 19 (ANI): A study by International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) has provided information about the composition of dark matter in the dark galaxies and has also found out pieces of evidence of interaction between dark matter and luminous matter.
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This light-sensing camera may help detect extraterrestrial life, dark matt
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 19 (ANI): Ever imagined a camera that can count photons, or particles of light and further aid in searching for chemical signs of life on other planets or dark matter? Well, this device is now a reality!
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