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Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse

By Natalie Wolchover
December 17, 2020
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We don’t know why the universe appears to be expanding faster than it should. New ultra-precise distance measurements have only intensified the problem.

Infographic showing the ranges of possible masses of WIMPs, axions, ultralight dark matter, sub-GeV dark matter and primordial black holes, which are five different candidates for dark matter.
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The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding

By Charlie Wood
November 23, 2020
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Physicists plan to leave no stone unturned, checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms planetary cores or even lodges in rocks.

A pink beam at the center of a metallic experimental apparatus.
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Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction From Moments After the Big Bang

By Thomas Lewton
November 11, 2020
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The newly-measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process from the Big Bang matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.

Cora Dvorkin in front of a starry backdrop.
Hidden Structure

The Cosmologist Who Dreams in the Universe’s Dark Threads

By Rebecca Boyle
November 5, 2020
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Cora Dvorkin discovered new possibilities for what dark matter could be. Now she’s devising unorthodox ways to identify it.

Hidden Structure

The Hidden Structure of the Universe

By Michael Moyer
October 22, 2020
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Our new series of articles explores the search for fundamental structure at the edge of science.

Stringy filaments wiggling against a black background.
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Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings From the Big Bang

By Thomas Lewton
September 29, 2020
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Subtle aberrations in the clockwork blinking of stars could become “the result of the century.” That’s if the distortions are produced by a network of giant filaments left over from the birth of the universe.

Black holes of various sizes
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Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter

By Joshua Sokol
September 23, 2020
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It was an old idea of Stephen Hawking’s: Unseen “primordial” black holes might be the hidden dark matter. A new series of studies has shown how the theory can work.

Distorted galaxies
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A New Cosmic Tension: The Universe Might Be Too Thin

By Charlie Wood
September 8, 2020
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Cosmologists have concluded that the universe doesn’t appear to clump as much as it should. Could both of cosmology’s big puzzles share a single fix?

The cyclic universe.
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Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang

By Charlie Wood
August 4, 2020
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Detailed computer simulations have found that a cosmic contraction can generate features of the universe that we observe today.


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