dark matter
noun
: nonluminous matter not yet directly detected by astronomers that is hypothesized to exist to account for various observed gravitational effects
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Yet blobs of dark matter were busy pulling in the surrounding gas, some of it condensing enough to set off nuclear fusion.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
Nguyen and his colleagues — Fabian Schmidt, Beatriz Tucci, Martin Reinecke and Andrija Kostić of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany — initially tested FLI on simulated maps of dark matter haloes, which are vast clouds of dark matter that surround galaxies and galaxy clusters.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2025
Although scientists have dreamt up dozens of models for dark matter’s potential composition and precise properties, most of these proposals predict infinitesimally small effects on normal particles.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2025
The team's findings, which were published Monday in the journal Nature, also unveil a method of investigating dark matter, which remains one of the universe's greatest mysteries, study co-author Fengwu Sun said.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
Nguyen and his colleagues — Fabian Schmidt, Beatriz Tucci, Martin Reinecke and Andrija Kostić of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany — initially tested FLI on simulated maps of dark matter haloes, which are vast clouds of dark matter that surround galaxies and galaxy clusters.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2025
Although scientists have dreamt up dozens of models for dark matter’s potential composition and precise properties, most of these proposals predict infinitesimally small effects on normal particles.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2025
The team's findings, which were published Monday in the journal Nature, also unveil a method of investigating dark matter, which remains one of the universe's greatest mysteries, study co-author Fengwu Sun said.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
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