Dark Matter :: Theory of gravity

December 20, 2019

Matter is everything around you. Atoms and molecules are all composed of matter. Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space…

October 17, 2019

There’s nothing like dark matter to fire up a discussion about astrophysics. We have lots of evidence to support dark matter, and we’ve…

February 27, 2019

Most of the matter in the universe may be made out of particles that possess an unusual, donut-shaped electromagnetic field called…

September 29, 2016

While we don t yet know what dark matter is, we do know it interacts with the rest of the universe through gravity, which means it…

November 26, 2015

Astronomers know more about what dark matter is not than what it actually is. Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com Infographics Artist Most…

December 23, 2015

This 3D map illustrates the large-scale distribution of dark matter, reconstructed from measurements of weak gravitational lensing…