Dwarf galaxies may help reveal what `dark matter` really is

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 13:18

Nearly 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies.

Galactic collision creates ‘puzzling’ dark matter core

Last Updated: Saturday, March 3, 2012, 19:03

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Telescope have spotted what appears to be a tuft of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies.

A ‘fat’ distant galaxy cluster called El Gordo

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 09:40

An international team of astronomers have located a massive, hot young galaxy cluster nicknamed “El Gordo” by using a telescope in Chile.

Astronomers make biggest map of dark matter

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 08:27

International astronomers said today they have created the largest map of dark matter ever observed in the universe, using data from potent telescopes that scanned 10 million galaxies.

Dark matter could be more mundane than thought

Last Updated: Monday, January 9, 2012, 20:48

Several tiny stars in globular clusters could account for mysterious dark matter, which is believed to constitute over 80 per cent of the universe’s matter, a new study has revealed.

Scientists detect low mass, faint star

Last Updated: Friday, December 23, 2011, 15:19

The “dark matter” theory has received yet another blow as scientists have detected a very low mass, faint star in a star cluster for the first time.

Scientists a step closer to dark matter discovery

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 11:50

Dark matter is an invisible substance the presence of which is inferred from rotation of galaxies.

`No link between dark matter, black holes’

Last Updated: Friday, January 21, 2011, 11:51

A new study has found that there is no direct connection between black holes and dark matter.

Dark matter hunt to go deeper

Last Updated: Monday, July 26, 2010, 16:00

Scientists are considering relocating an underground experiment searching for dark matter to an even deeper site.

Is dark matter cooling off Sun`s core?

Last Updated: Friday, July 16, 2010, 09:34

Dark matter is cooling off the core of our sun, as per two research groups.

`Dark matter and energy may not exist in space`

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 20:31

Physicists have claimed that dark matter and energy may not exist.

Astrophysicists looking for evidence of dark matter

Last Updated: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 15:22

Astrophysicists are looking everywhere - inside the Large Hadron Collider, in deep mines and far out into space - for evidence of dark matter, which makes up about 25 percent of the energy density of the universe.