Category: dark matter

Australia Launches into Dark Matter Research with New Underground Lab

August 22, 2022
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Australia has launched one of only a handful of labs across the globe with the capacity to detect the mysterious dark matter, something which has never been seen and is little understood. Launched on Friday in regional Victoria and located one kilometre underground in the Stawell Gold Mine, the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL), will…

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Astronomers Discover Mysterious Mirror Image Galaxy Cluster in Deep Space, Finally Solve Cosmic Mystery

January 20, 2022
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A strange “mirror image” galaxy cluster in deep space, sighted billions of light-years away, was discovered a few years ago and researchers are now starting to wrap their heads around it—and grasping the “carnival funhouse mirrors” of outer space was key in unravelling the mystery. Gazing into deep space through NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is a…

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Supermassive Black Holes May Form From Dark Matter, Study Suggests

February 27, 2021
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Supermassive black holes are exotic astrophysical objects harbored at the centers of galaxies. Their masses can reach 1 million to 1 billion times larger than our sun, and their gravitational force is so strong that even light cannot escape; hence the name “black” holes. Dark matter is a mysterious form of matter that lurks in…

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Astronomers Detect Tremendous Amount of Dark Matter in Dwarf Satellite Galaxy

February 10, 2021
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Scientists have discovered that a small galaxy called Tucana II has a much stronger gravitational pull than expected, which means it is likely home to a large amount of dark matter. Just as the moon orbits the Earth, many satellite galaxies are orbiting our Milky Way. Tucana II is one of them. These small galaxies,…

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