Dark universe Archives – Page 5 of 12

Study links solar activity to exotic dark matter

The temporal distribution of solar flares is correlated with the positions of the Earth, Mercury and Venus.

CMS expands scope of dark-matter search in dijet channel

Using three complementary techniques, CMS has now explored a large range in mass, coupling and width.

XENON1T releases first data

XENON1T is the first tonne-scale detector of its kind and is designed to search for WIMP dark matter by measuring nuclear recoils from WIMP–nucleus scattering.

CAST experiment constrains solar axions

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope has reported important new exclusion limits on coupling of axions to photons.

Survey reveals edge of dark-matter halos

Results show that the density of dark matter in a halo does not gradually fall off with distance, as might be expected, but instead exhibits a sharp edge.

Dark-matter surprise in early universe

A surprising result at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany suggests that dark matter was less influential in the early universe than it is today.

Euclid to pinpoint nature of dark energy

Due for launch in 2020, ESA’s Euclid probe will track galaxies and large areas of sky to find the cause of the cosmic acceleration.

How dark matter became a particle

Astronomers have long contemplated the possibility that there may be forms of matter in the universe that are imperceptible, either because they are too far away, too dim or intrinsically invisible. L...