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JJ Shavit

Major discovery shines new light on the evolution of the universe

Despite making up 85% of the universe and influencing its evolution, dark matter has been hard to detect as it doesn’t interact with light.

JJ Shavit

Dark matter is made up of dark photons which fills the space between galaxies

This hypothesis is in excellent agreement with observations made by the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope.

JJ Shavit

Dark matter is made up of dark photons, study finds

Dark matter could be made up of ultralight dark photons that heated up our universe: this is a new scenario proposed in a recent study.

JJ Shavit

New cancer treatments discovered in the “dark matter” of the human genome

Researchers of the University of Bern and the Insel Hospital determined new targets for drug development for this cancer type.

JJ Shavit

Does outer space end or is it infinite? Scientists weigh in

If you could keep going out, as far as you wanted, would you just keep passing by galaxies forever? Are there an infinite number of galaxies

JJ Shavit

Mind-bending experiment to provide the first observation of dark matter

To solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can “live” outside an atomic nucleus, physicists have a wild but testable theory.

JJ Shavit

Scientists discover how galaxies can exist without dark matter

When tiny galaxies collide with bigger ones, the bigger galaxies can strip the smaller galaxies of their dark matter which we can’t see.

JJ Shavit

The true nature of dark matter and ordinary matter interactions

A new study suggests the existence of a direct interaction between the elementary particles that make up the dark matter and ordinary matter

JJ Shavit

Have we detected dark energy? Scientists say it's a possibility

Unexplained results from the XENON1T experiment may have been caused by dark energy, and not the dark matter the experiment tried to detect.

Joshua Shavit

Scientists invent new dark matter detector using quantum ion crystals

Researchers can measure the vibrational excitation of the crystal — the flat plane moving up and down like the head of a drum.