News Stories relating to "dark matter"

Gulp! - If you think there are some surprising things happening here on Earth, you'd be amazed at the kinds of things are happening in the heavens. For instance, one star recently swallowed up another nearby one and there is a mysterious dark hole at the center of our universe. Not only that, there's a VOLCANO in space!

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Found in a cave? - Scientists have gotten a big Christmas present: Researchers at the Dept. of Energy's Fermilab near Chicago have detected signals of what CERN is looking so hard for: that elusive substance known as dark matter.

And what are these experiments that have everyone so excited? They're taking place inside an...

What is it for? And why can't we see it? - For the first time, astronomers believe that they have discovered evidence of dark matter existing in halos around galaxies. Dark matter has been theorized, but never directly detected before. However, images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope suggest the presence of the elusive...

Dark matter is a mystery, but some things about it are known. It?s an invisible form of matter whose total mass in the universe is more than five times that of "normal" matter (atoms). Astronomers think that our universe is made up of around 70% dark energy or dark matter, so it's important to understand it.

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Two of the biggest mysteries in physics are: where is all the dark matter that scientists know is in the universe but can't see??and are there extra dimensions beyond the 3 we can see? A team of scientists now think these mysteries may be connected. "For the most part, these two questions have been treated separately in the past, and for the...