A spherical proportional counter detector at the Modane underground laboratory in 2019. He had a spherical copper container filled with noble gas to search for dark matter. (Submitted by Marie-Cécile Piro – image source) Dark matter has never been seen before, but scientists think it could help explain the mysteries of the universe. And a… Read More »
More than twenty years have passed since the discovery of dark energy. So scientists have had more than 20 years to unravel the secrets of this invisible substance that seems to tear the universe apart. But still they know almost nothing about it. In fact, dark energy may not even be a substance. This could… Read More »
Astronomers are mapping millions of galaxies in our universe to better understand dark energy.NASA/ESA/H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski, A. Koekemoer, R. Windhorst and Z. Levay For decades, astronomers have been wondering about dark energy and why it is pulling our universe apart. New data from the largest 3D map of our universe shows we may… Read More »
An artist’s rendering showing the inside of CERN’s Future Circular Collider tunnel.of CERN CERN’s new super collider will be 8 times more powerful than the LHC, the world’s largest and most powerful. Physicists can use this to solve mysteries about the nature of our universe. According to the current timeline, the first stage of the… Read More »
A new analysis of how galaxy clusters have evolved over the universe’s 13.8 billion-year history could help resolve long-standing tensions around the ‘lumpyness’ of our universe’s matter content. After all, it could also help scientists solve a number of other cosmic mysteries. The first data from the eROSITA all-sky survey of cosmic X-ray sources, which… Read More »
Planning is in full swing for the successor to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. The new “atom smasher,” called the Future Circular Collider (FCC), will dwarf the LHC in size and power. It will smash particles with so much energy that scientists say it can investigate the most mysterious… Read More »