Tag: dark matter
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Satellite galaxies. Dark matter. Simulating the unknown...
The mystery of the missing satellite galaxies has bedeviled astronomers for more than a decade. While dark matter has proven to be exceptionally good at explaining the formation of large galaxies and clusters, it routinely runs into trouble when attempting to describe tiny structures such as satellite galaxies. Dozens of tiny galaxies known as satellite…
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Hunting dark matter. Creating our ghosts...
The hunt for dark matter. (1) I will not stop saying again and again the obious: Calling something by a name does not necessarily make you a "scientist". Letting others call something by a specific name (e.g. "God") does make you a FREE thinker though... Science needs imagination. Not crude definitions.
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Dark Matter, wants, desires...
The Universe's highest-energy light could finally yield clues to the nature of the "dark matter" that makes up some 85% of the Universe's mass. The Fermi space telescope, designed to catch gamma rays, has seen hints of evidence for dark matter in high-energy gamma rays seen at the galaxy's centre. [1] The search for Dark Matter…
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The greatest scientific discovery of 2013... WIMP!
Yes. We have seen it before. We give something a name and suddently we are able to "discover" it. WIMP (as in hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the dark matter problem) is the new "Higgs boson". As in... here. Or... here. And we used to laugh at people who believed in aether...
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WIMP, Dark Matter, scientific delusions…
The unknown is starting to take shape. The nameless gets named. WIMP is the name you will hear more often in the future when Dark Matter is analyzed… And rest assured that someday there will be experiments that will “find” it… Because when you look for something you always find it... ALWAYS. After all, after…
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