dark matter

The tests addressed the elusive matter’s existence despite it never having been observed

Researcher’s work will probe ‘elusive universe’ of neutrinos, dark matter and gravity

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

Discovery promises to help physicists understand nature of universe’s most abundant particle

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

In simulations, collisions cause smaller star groupings to lose material

Scientific first at CERN facility a preview of upcoming 3-year research campaign

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

Exhaustive emissions modeling by global physicists narrows down particle candidates

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 […]