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Miniature black holes may be hitting Earth once every 1,000 years
First, the good news: You have not been killed by a black hole.The strange news is that it's possible the universe is teeming with microscopic black holes that formed at the dawn of time, all of them...
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Astronomers found evidence for a 'dark' gravitational force that might fix...
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts so much about the universe at large, including the existence of gravitational lenses or "Einstein rings."And yet his famous equations struggle to...
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Miniature black holes may be hitting Earth once every 1,000 years
First, the good news: You have not been killed by a black hole.The strange news is that it's possible the universe is teeming with microscopic black holes that formed at the dawn of time, all of them...
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The Milky Way's 'dark twin' might help us solve one of the biggest mysteries...
Somewhere in the universe, hundreds of millions of light-years away, the Milky Way has a twin.This twin, called Dragonfly 44, is a bit smaller than the Milky Way — about 60,000 light-years across — and...
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Something punched through a stream of stars and it could help solve a bunch...
Two massive holes appear to have been punched through a stream of stars just outside our galaxy, and researchers believe they could have been caused by clumps of dark matter.Scientists at the...
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Astronomers found evidence for a 'dark' gravitational force that might fix...
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts so much about the universe at large, including the existence of gravitational lenses or "Einstein rings."And yet his famous equations struggle to...
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Something mysterious is killing 11,000 nearby galaxies
New research published January 17, 2017 by a global team of researchers focused on 11,000 relatively nearby galaxies and asked why their gas — their lifeblood for the formation of new stars — is being...
View ArticleStrange signals in space have experts wondering if they just detected dark...
Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected a mysterious signal in the Andromeda Galaxy. They're not sure what it is, yet, but there's a chance it could be evidence of dark...
View ArticleAn astrophysicist explains dark matter — the most mysterious part of the...
Columbia University astrophysicist, Janna Levin, explains dark matter — a mysterious type of material that comprises 84.5% of all matter in the universe. Yet, experts understand very little about it....
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NASA will soon create the coldest spot in the universe — and forge a bizarre...
SpaceX is launching a NASA experiment called the Cold Atom Laboratory.The device will use lasers and a "knife" of radio waves to cool gases into superfluids.The superfluids will be just a billionth of...
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New simulations suggest dark energy might not exist
Ever since the late 1990s, physicists have been fairly certain that the Universe isn't only getting bigger, it also appears to be expanding at an ever increasing rate.A mysterious force called dark...
View ArticleA mysterious force is pushing the universe apart — here's how it could rip...
Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival, explains one of the most prominent theories of how our universe will meet its...
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Astronomers just found a 2nd galaxy containing no dark matter — and it may...
When researchers at Yale University said in March 2018 that they discovered a galaxy containing no dark matter, their work was met with a mixture of praise and criticism.Much of the criticism of the...
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Planet 9, our solar system's mysterious missing world, could be an ancient...
In 2016, researchers suggested that the bizarre orbits of six objects in the solar system's Kuiper Belt could be influenced by the gravity of a mysterious distant planet that scientists had never seen....
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A handful of new telescopes are about to transform the hunt for alien life...
NASA and other space agencies are building a handful of telescopes that are likely to change our understanding of the universe.From vantage points on Earth and in space, these telescopes will peer...
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Physicists say they found new evidence for a mysterious fifth force of...
Physicists say they may have uncovered a new force of nature, called X17 — a reference to its unique mass.The physicists first spotted it when they studied a decaying beryllium isotope's unexpected...
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An underground dark-matter experiment may have stumbled on the 'holy grail':...
A dark-matter experiment in an underground Italian lab may have discovered a new particle called the solar axion.If that's indeed what was detected, it would be the first direct evidence of a particle...
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A new simulation reveals what dark matter might look like if we could see it:...
Summary List PlacementLike a skeleton, dark matter provides the universe with structure.The elusive stuff is thought to make up about 85% of all matter in the universe, and scientists can measure the...
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A new experiment has broken the known rules of physics, hinting at a...
Summary List PlacementOne of the most ubiquitous subatomic particles in the universe, the muon, seems to be misbehaving.Or at least, it isn't behaving the way physicists expect. In fact, muons are...
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The most detailed map yet of all dark matter in the universe reveals cosmic...
Summary List PlacementAstronomers have created the most comprehensive map yet of all the dark matter in the universe.That's no easy feat, considering dark matter is invisible. Scientists know this...
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