The hidden neutron decay route. Typically, when a neutron decays, it splits into three particles: a proton, an electron, and ...

However, the USTC researchers have revealed that dark matter halos hosting dwarf galaxies also exhibit halo bias, which is ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

Most astrophysicists and cosmologists (scientists who study the origins and evolution of the universe) today lean toward the first option: dark matter. But a few have devoted their efforts to ...

"We really don't know," she said ... acting against the gravity of both, the normal and dark matter," Giuseppe Racca, Euclid project manager at the European Space Agency (ESA), told Space.com ...

Underneath the new theory’s assumptions, however, is an even bigger question that could play a role in the quest to prove the existence of dark matter: If there really are a bunch of new ...

They also don't really know where it is (though they have ... Despite not knowing what dark matter is yet, scientists can slowly figure out what it is not. This is precisely what several ...

Dark matter is supposed to be vital to the universe. A study by uOttawa's Prof. Rajendra Gupta claims that it isn't real and never existed, shattering the standard model of cosmology. An artist ...

There’s also the possibility that primordial black holes are just a fraction of the dark matter, Alonso-Monsalve added. “It doesn’t really have to be all the same,” she said.

Analyzing billion-year-old rocks, researchers at Virginia Tech hope to find traces of dark matter. The idea was first proposed in the 1980s. Technological advances since then led them to revisit ...