Science news articles about 'evidence for dark matter'

... ordinary collisions is the key to finding the unknown matter. "We're really trying to characterize the background ... already claimed to see possible evidence of dark matter, so far those claimed results ...

... provide further evidence that the undisturbed galaxies are enshrouded by a "cushion" of dark matter that protects them ... case." First proposed about 80 years ago by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky, dark ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that galaxies are embedded in halos of dark matter.

... clash of clusters provides striking evidence for dark matter and insight into its properties. Like the Bullet ... of miles per hour, the hot gas in each cluster collided and slowed down, but the dark ...

... the galaxy. Thus, the scientists said, the observed distribution of gamma rays is not evidence for dark matter. "There is no great mystery," said Richard Lingenfelter, a research scientist at UC San ...

... knowledge of gamma rays could help them explore distant regions of space, help them look for evidence of dark matter, determine how much electromagnetic radiation the universe has ...