dark matter
noun
: nonluminous matter not yet directly detected by astronomers that is hypothesized to exist to account for various observed gravitational effects
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That's because astronomers can use our understanding of white dwarfs as a baseline to search for more exotic phenomena such as dark matter.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
The year crashing galaxy clusters revealed the motion of dark matter
One of the best places to measure possible dark matter interactions are galaxy clusters.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
This theory makes definite predictions about the distribution of dark matter, but leaves great uncertainty in the rather messy physics whereby gas agglomerates and converts into stars.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Then in September, a separate group of physicists pointed out that another dark matter candidate sometimes called fuzzy dark matter could do the trick as well.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
The year crashing galaxy clusters revealed the motion of dark matter
One of the best places to measure possible dark matter interactions are galaxy clusters.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
This theory makes definite predictions about the distribution of dark matter, but leaves great uncertainty in the rather messy physics whereby gas agglomerates and converts into stars.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Then in September, a separate group of physicists pointed out that another dark matter candidate sometimes called fuzzy dark matter could do the trick as well.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
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