Gravitational Waves Could Become New Tool in Hunt for Dark Matter
Researchers have developed a new method to identify whether black hole mergers occurred inside dense clouds of dark…
Physicists May Be on the Verge of Discovering “New Physics” at CERN
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as…
A new way to spot signs of dark matter | MIT News
Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way…
Dark Matter: Scientists tested Newton’s Law across 750 million light-years: Does gravity still work as Newton predicted?
It’s been more than three centuries since Isaac Newton figured out that gravity pulls things together. You’d think,…
After 100 Years, Scientists Uncover Hidden Rule Governing Cosmic Rays
Cosmic rays are primarily composed of protons, but also of helium, carbon, oxygen, and iron nuclei. Credit: Chinese…
Dark Matter May Have Jump-Started Universe’s First Giant Black Holes
New research by astronomers from the University of California, Riverside, Sam Houston State University and the University of…
Seeing the Invisible: Scientists Develop New Way To Track Particles in 3D
Illustration of the first prototype of a new monolithic detector system capable of performing ultrafast, 3D and high-resolution…
Gravitational waves as dark matter seeds
Dark matter’s origin is still a puzzle. A new study by Professor Joachim Kopp from Johannes Gutenberg University…
Physicist Proposes Dark Matter Is Made of Black Holes That Survived Dead Universes
Here’s a fun dark matter solution. The invisible and as yet hypothetical substance could be made of “relic”…
What happens if you’re hit by a primordial black hole?
Back in the early 2000s I gave a public talk called “Seven Ways a Black Hole Can Kill…
ATLAS maps the rare four-way intersections of the weak force
Despite its resounding success at describing high-energy phenomena, the Standard Model of particle physics provides no explanation for…
Black Holes from Before Big Bang Could Still Exist Today as ‘Cosmic Fossils’
New research by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga from the University of Portsmouth and the Institute of Space Sciences in…