UCI physicist proposes new experiment to detect dark matter in our solar system

SpaceQ mission involves atomic clocks on spacecraft placed close to the sun

UCI scientists discover how galaxies can exist without dark matter

In simulations, collisions cause smaller star groupings to lose material

UCI-led study rules out dark matter destruction as origin of extra radiation in galaxy center

Exhaustive emissions modeling by global physicists narrows down particle candidates

Astronomers find atypically evolved galaxy with tightly packed dark matter at its core

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, UCI astronomers have identified a galaxy with an unexpectedly high amount of dark matter at its core. Descended from a family of galaxies called “red nuggets” that formed relatively soon after the Big Bang but were stalled in their growth about 10 billion years ago, Markarian 1216 has […]

Astrophysicists detect evidence of dark matter in Milky Way galactic center

Excess of gamma rays could indicate that dark matter particles are annihilating each other in space.

Elusive dark matter

UC Irvine researchers say that the link between dark matter and discovery of excess positrons in space is not concrete, despite a flurry of excitement in the field of astrophysics.

Photo of Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tuscon, Arizona.

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument early data release holds nearly 2 million objects

UC Irvine-led mission’s cosmic maps include galaxies, quasars and stars in the Milky Way

Tyrus Miller for UCI Magazine, Fall 2021

Out of the Darkness

Originally published in fall 2021 issue of UCI Magazine Dante Alighieri closed Inferno, his poetic vision of hell and the first canticle of his 14th-century epic The Divine Comedy, with a luminous line: “And then we came out again to see the stars.” For Dante, the exit path is poetry itself – he seeks consolation […]

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument team begins 3D mapping of universe

UCI astronomers help gather and study data from more than 30 million galaxies

Exploring dark places

‘A Proper Knowledge’ draws parallels between how psychiatrists and lovers learn the minds of others