Researchers, in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark photons to be considered serious candidates for dark matter, with promising ...

Physicists have tried so many different ways to find dark matter, but none has been successful. Now an unexpected contender ...

Recent scientific proposals suggest that dark matter, the elusive substance comprising much of the universe’s mass, might not be entirely “dark” as it could interact with light by leaving detectable ...

Figure.1 illustrates the conceptual mechanism of dark-photon production via dark bremsstrahlung and its subsequent decay into invisible dark matter, forming the experimental basis for DarkSHINE, which ...

Scientists have created the first real-time 3D simulations of how lasers alter the quantum vacuum. Using cutting-edge computational modeling, scientists from the University of Oxford, in collaboration ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Lea created by Canva Observing the interactions between dark matter and so-called ...

2D projection of the cosmic web as obtained from a supercomputer simulation. CREDIT Dr Ewald Puchwein and the Sherwood-Relics collaboration Dark matter could be made up of ultralight dark photons that ...

Dark matter is hypothesized to make up about 27% of the Universe, but the nature of its particles remains unknown. Writing in Physical Review Letters, An et al. present a search for proposed ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The end is brutal for electrons hurtling at 99.9999999 percent of the speed of light through SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s ...

The universe is a strange place on very small scales. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What makes up the matter we perceive in the ...

"Cosmic dawn has been a missing chapter in our understanding of the universe." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Observing the ...