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Has dark matter finally been detected? | Science | The GuardianA computer simulation shows how invisible dark matter coalesces in halos (shown in yellow). For 80 years, it has eluded the finest minds in science. But tonight it appeared that the hunt may be over for dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance that accounts for three-quarters of the ...
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Work begins on world's deepest underground lab - Yahoo! NewsFar below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings — a place uniquely suited to scientists' quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter. Workers began construction Monday ...
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Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into CrisisAs modern cosmologists rely more and more on the ominous “dark matter” to explain otherwise inexplicable observations, much effort has gone into the detection of this mysterious substance in the last two decades, yet no direct proof could be found that it actually exists. Even if it does exist, ...
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Hubble telescope poised for grand cosmic finale - msnbc.comIts exquisite images have graced the pages of astronomy books and calendars all over the world and provided astronomers with invaluable information on the mysteries of the universe. Now, after 19 years orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth's surface, the Hubble Space Telescope is getting its ...
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Dark matter 'highway' funnels gas into galactic pileup - space - 04 May 2009 - New ScientistThe first tantalising signs of gas within a filament of dark matter have been glimpsed at the site of a cataclysmic collision between galaxy clusters. If future observations confirm the preliminary detection, it would provide an important test of computer simulations that show how large-scale ...
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Does Dark Energy Really Exist?: Scientific AmericanKey Concepts The universe appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate, implying the existence of a strange new form of energy dark energy. The problem: no one is sure what dark energy is. Cosmologists may not actually need to invoke exotic forms of energy. If we live in an ...
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A bizarre universe may be lurking in the shadows - 04 March 2009 - New ScientistIT IS 3.30am on 26 December 2007 in McMurdo, Antarctica. The crew at the long-duration balloon facility have stayed up all night in sub-zero temperatures, waiting for the winds to subside. Finally, the gigantic balloon lifts off. Filled with about a million cubic metres of helium, it soars high ...
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Galaxies Protected by Dark MatterNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence that galaxies are embedded in and protected by halos of dark matter, the invisible form of matter that accounts for most of the universe's mass. Dark matter is invisible and nobody even knows what it is, but it is evident by the fact that ...
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'Primordial' gas ring gives birth to baby galaxies - space - 18 February 2009 - New ScientistIn a cosmic case of delayed development, dwarf galaxies have been found growing in a ring of gas that seems to be left over from the early universe. Strangely, the new galaxies appear to lack dark matter, suggesting a fraction of the universe's first galaxies might have been born from gas alone. ...
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Researchers unveil new model of early universe - Space- msnbc.comThe universe, 590 million years after the Big Bang, may have looked like this, according to computer simulations, with some stretches of dark matter (green) and galaxies with varying luminosity of star formation (yellow is brightest). The results will hopefully shed light not only on galaxy ...
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