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These three objects were originally identified as galaxies but they may actually be “dark stars”

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JWST may have spotted enormous stars powered by dark matter

The early universe could be home to huge stars powered by dark matter annihilation instead of fusion – and the James Webb Space Telescope may have already found some

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A gravitational-lensed image of a galaxy

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Weird dark matter waves seem to warp the light from distant galaxies

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The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue

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The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue

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Dark energy and antimatter in space

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Antimatter particles could cross the galaxy without being destroyed

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The blessing and the curse of the axion’s rise in US particle physics

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Carlo Rovelli at Cornilia Parker exhibition

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Carlo Rovelli on the bizarre world of relational quantum mechanics

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The cosmos doesn't work to my research schedule – but that's OK

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In November 2019, researchers were astonished when they viewed its image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Dark matter is an invisible substance that astronomers believe plays an important role in the formation of galaxies and is thought to comprise 85 percent of the universe?s mass. This discovery not only challenges the ideas of how galaxies form, but also provides evidence that dark matter is real. It shows that dark matter is not always coupled with regular matter in galaxies and that it has its own separate existence. In addition to lacking dark matter, galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 is an anomaly because you can see straight through it. This is called an ultra-diffuse galaxy because it has an extremely low density. As a result of these findings, a team of researchers are hunting for more dark-matter deficient galaxies to better understand the nature of dark matter and the formation of galaxies.

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Earth’s surface may be teeming with trillions of dark matter particles

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein speaks at SESSION 5 at TED2022: A New Era. April 10-14, 2022, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED

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How I gave a TED talk on dark matter

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W0MN5G This undated NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies. IC 335 is part of a galaxy group containing three other galaxies, and located in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster 60 million light-years away, December 30, 2014. As seen in this image, the disc of IC 335 appears edge-on from the vantage point of Earth. UPI/NASA

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Shredded dwarf galaxies may lack dark matter to hold them together

Many dwarf galaxies torn up by the gravity of nearby objects may not have any dark matter, which doesn't line up with our understanding of the universe – but they may be explained by a controversial alternate model of gravity

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Two smart books probe multiverses, dark matter – and sexual politics

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World's most sensitive dark matter detector tested for the first time

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Why I'm choosing dark matter over dark energy - for now at least

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Strange gravitational wave echoes may let us probe dark matter

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