A team of astronomers led by the University of Hawaii have recently found a solitary dwarf galaxy located 7 million light-years away from Earth. The new found galaxy was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in the Milky Way’s near vicinity. Researchers located the new galaxy, labeled KKs3, within a cluster of 54 galaxies they were trying to map. KKs3 is a solitary dwarf spheroidal galaxy, a … [Read more...]
Scientists May Have Found Dark Matter
Scientists may have found dark matter as they detected an x-ray signal which could be the very first evidence of the presence of dark matter. The signal was seen in the x-ray spectrum as an atypical, weak emission of photons that could not be assigned by the scientists to any other known type of matter. Dark matter is a form of matter that is responsible for gravitational effects on observable … [Read more...]
GPS Time Glitches Could Reveal Elusive Dark Matter +Video
A recent study conducted by a team of scientists under Andrei Derevianko’s leadership has found that dark matter might be revealed by using Global Positioning Systems. The research team from the University of Nevada, Reno, in collaboration with Maxim Pospelov, from the University of Victoria and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada have attempted to search for this elusive dark … [Read more...]
Scientists May Have Been Wrong About Higgs Boson
The entire scientific world was beside itself when CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced the discovery of a new particle last year. The Higgs boson received a lot of praise, and it was postulated that it is because of it that other fundamental particles have mass. However, researchers now claim that the particle discovered then may have not been the Higgs boson. … [Read more...]
New Magnifying Glass Spotted by Hubble
Astronomers can now see back as far as 9.6 billion years thanks to Hubble’s new discovery: a lensing galaxy that is the most distant cosmic magnifying glass we’ve found to date. Because a lensing galaxy is so massive, it bends gravity, distorts light from the objects behind it and magnifies. Recently, the NASA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a gigantic elliptical galaxy. Because of its … [Read more...]
