dark matter
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Hubble Space Telescope Snaps Galaxy Cluster That Could Hold Secrets of Dark Matter
The Hubble Space Telescope is no spring chicken, having operated in space for over 30 years. But the veteran observatory soldiers on. It recently imaged a massive galaxy cluster that could hold secrets about both dark and ordinary matter. The cluster is Abell 3322. It sits in the constellation Pictor, about 2.6 billion light-years from…
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Australia’s First Dark Matter Lab Opens, a Kilometre Underground
One might say they’re hoping to ‘shed light’ on the mystery that is dark matter.
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There Are 40,000,000,000,000,000,000+ Black Holes in the Observable Universe, Says New Estimate
A team of astrophysicists has calculated the number of stellar-mass black holes in the observable universe to be 40 quintillion, accounting for 1% of the total ordinary matter in the universe.
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Physicists Detect Neutrinos for First Time Ever Using Large Hadron Collider
Last week, a team of physicists working in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced the facility’s first-ever detection of neutrinos, which are some of the smallest, most weakly interacting particles yet proven to exist.