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Debate Intensifies Over Dark Disk Theory

By Natalie Wolchover
April 12, 2016
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In the new, free-for-all era of dark matter research, the controversial idea that dark matter is concentrated in thin disks is being rescued from scientific oblivion.

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Time’s (Almost) Reversible Arrow

By Frank Wilczek
January 7, 2016
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The irreversibility of time may be a clue as to what makes up the universe’s dark matter.

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The Case for Complex Dark Matter

By Liz Kruesi
August 20, 2015
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The physicist James Bullock explains how a complicated “dark sector” of interacting particles may illuminate some puzzling observations of the centers of galaxies.

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Dwarf Galaxies Dim Hopes of Dark Matter

By Natalie Wolchover
October 25, 2014
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For five years physicists have been tantalized by possible evidence of dark matter in the Milky Way’s center. But new results from small satellite galaxies have complicated the story.

Katherine Freese
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In Search of Dark Stars

By Tom Siegfried
July 22, 2014
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Katherine Freese, a physicist who will soon lead the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, reflects on the hunt for dark matter and how dark matter heating may have produced the first stars.

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Case for Dark Matter Signal Strengthens

By Natalie Wolchover
March 3, 2014
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A new analysis strengthens the case that gamma rays emanating from the center of the Milky Way come from dark matter particles known as WIMPs.

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In Hunt for Dark Matter, Promises to Keep?

By Jennifer Ouellette
July 18, 2013
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Whispers of the elusive particles are becoming stronger with a series of signals that appear to be zeroing in on a leading contender.

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Peering Into the Early Universe

By Natalie Wolchover
March 7, 2013
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Three “extremely large telescopes” poised to begin observations within a decade could help answer some of the universe’s oldest and best-kept secrets.


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