Chat fiction startups have been exploring the types of stories you can tell in the form of text message conversations, and now Hooked is taking that exploration one step further with the launch of “Dark Matter.” The company describes this as its first feature-length story. “Dark Matter” tells the story of Tasneem (Taz) Singh, a […]
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There’s a race to discover dark matter, and it’s deep underground
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In the heart of an Italian mountain, scientists are building a machine. Deep in a former gold mine, tucked in the Black Hills of South Dakota, another team is doing the same.
They’re looking for a signal: a spark of light and free electrons. Evidence of dark matter
It’s never been detected in a lab. But scientists believe it’s more plentiful than “ordinary” matter. A lot more. Everything made of atoms — known as baryonic matter, the stuff we’re made of — is thought to make up less than 5 percent of the universe. Dark matter makes up another 25 percent. The rest is dark energy, a mysterious force that repels gravity and explains why the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Read more…
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View More There’s a race to discover dark matter, and it’s deep undergroundA distant galaxy doesn’t seem to contain any dark matter, and that’s really weird
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Billions of years ago, our Milky Way galaxy pulled itself together.
Our home condensed from gas that gathered in our small part of the universe, swirled together thanks to gravity provided by dark matter — the mysterious substance that makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe and doesn’t interact with regular matter.
That dark matter allowed the Milky Way’s gas — i.e. the “normal” matter — of our galaxy to condense and form stars.
Researchers have thought for some time that, for the most part, galaxies need to form with the help of dark matter because of the extra gravity the mysterious, plentiful substances provides. Read more…
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