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Roman Space Telescope will use a century-old idea from Einstein to probe the nature of mysterious dark matter
"We will push the limits of what we can observe, and use every gravitational lens we detect with Roman to pin down the ...
NASA's Roman to peer into cosmic 'lenses' to better define dark matter
Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is ...
Vera Rubin was the GOAT of dark matter
How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.
A long-standing puzzle of ‘missing’ ordinary matter in the universe may be solved, astronomers say
Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in ...
Simulations find ghostly whirls of dark matter trailing galaxy arms
A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...
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NASA’s Roman telescope to peer deeper into the universe
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, the international research team estimated that “Roman” may be able to ...
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Cosmic 'lenses' Will Better Define Dark Matter
This image shows a simulated observation from NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with an overlay of its Wide Field ...
Milky Way Galaxy collision more likely while NASA prepares for lunar rescue
A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy ...
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From the Andes to the beginning of time: Telescopes detect 13-billion-year-old signal
Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based ...
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Huge galaxy cluster is wrapped in a cocoon 20 million light-years wide, NASA space telescope finds
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered an entire galaxy cluster wrapped in a 20 million ...