Space.com spoke to three scientists, cosmic detectives who are hot on the trail of dark matter candidates using the James ...

Key TakeawaysTESSERACT has developed exquisitely sensitive transition-edge sensors that open up new searches for dark matter ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. They are searching for dark matter using atomic ...

Never has this been the case more than with dark matter. Though it's far more abundant than the matter we can see and feel, dark matter as we know it is virtually immune to observation ...

While there are many, many models of potential dark matter candidates, many interact with regular particles through exchanges involving the Higgs boson — a fundamental particle that interacts ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), and her team have pioneered the use of gravitational ...

An international team of researchers has found that dark matter dominates the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies nearly 13 billion light-years away. Their study, published in ...

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Could axions be the missing key to dark matter? Scientists fired ultra-powerful X-rays through crystals, searching for light signals that may reveal these elusive particles. The results suggest ...