Dark matter (DM) is a type of matter estimated to account for 80% of the universe's total mass, but it cannot be directly ...

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This particular isotope burns away quickly inside stars due to their intense heat. But in cooler objects like brown dwarfs, ...

Although it hasn’t detected dark matter yet, its developers say it offers an alternative path that is worth exploring ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and annihilate, releasing energy that heats the star." ...

Model considers two DM particles, one stable and one unstable, as well as a vector mediator similar to the photon but with mass, which would promote interaction with ordinary matter particles.

First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists ...

Even though scientists are certain that dark matter exists — as all our universe's normal matter simply can't account for the way galaxies are kind of held together — they don't know what it is.

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the natural mass range of the WIMP would precisely match the abundances needed to ...

Now, the search for dark matter has received an unlikely assist from technology used in quantum computing research. In a new paper published in the journal Nature, my colleagues on the HAYSTAC team ...

If so much dark matter exists, it must not only be non-luminous, it must not absorb light either. It couldn't simply be regular matter that is cold and dark, but must be something very different.