CONTINUATION: Scientists create the first image of dark matter ; A COSMIC...

The Independent - London;  January 8, 2007 ;     554 words ......mapped the large-scale distribution of dark matter in the universe," said Richard Massey...of the lead scientists in the team. "Dark matter is a mysterious and invisible form of...discoveries to emerge from the study is that dark matter appears to form an invisible scaffold...

Scientists Offer Proof of 'Dark Matter'; Analysis of Galactic Collision...

The Washington Post;  August 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......undetectable mysterious substances called dark matter and dark energy. But until yesterday...researchers now say they are certain dark matter does exist and plays a central role...scientists are still not sure exactly what dark matter is, since they have yet to identify...

Tracing the architecture of dark matter. (two types of dark matter...

Science News;  February 10, 1996 ;     577 words ......light. This invisible material, known as dark matter, exerts a gravitational tug, just as...of Japanese astronomers argues that dark matter has another property in common with...speculate that two distinct kinds of dark matter may exist-one that congregates around...

Hubble creates 3-D map of 'Dark Matter'

The Hindustan Times;  January 22, 2007 ;     494 words ......international team of astronomers create a three-dimensional map of 'dark matter' that provides the first direct look at the large-scale distribution of dark matter in the universe. Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that accounts for most of...

Separation anxiety: cosmic collision may shed light on dark matter.(This...

Science News;  August 25, 2007 ;     570 words ......indicates that this material, known as dark matter, is about eight times as abundant as...invisible halos around star-filled galaxies. Dark matter keeps galaxies and galaxy clusters intact, theorists say. The leading model for dark matter suggests that it interacts only through...

Astronomers Find Clues to Space Mystery // Teams Report Seeing Dark Matter

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 21, 1993 ;     498 words ......taken their first look at the mysterious dark matter that makes up as much as 90 percent...independently reported evidence Monday that the dark matter is made up of billions of Jupiter-sized...it is impossible to be certain that dark matter has been seen until more examples are...

Big question, invisible answer,: Scientists on verge of detecting...

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  June 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ......think they'll soon be able to identify "dark matter," a ghostly glue that keeps the galaxies...What is much of the universe made of? Dark matter is thought to consist of an enormous...visible galaxies. "We owe our existence to dark matter," says the draft of a forthcoming report...

Dark matter mysteriously found devoid of galaxies in comic 'train wreck'

The Hindustan Times;  August 17, 2007 ;     511 words ......Observatory and optical telescopes revealed a dark matter core that was mostly devoid of galaxies...pose problems for current theories of dark matter behaviour. "These results challenge...make us even re-examine the nature of dark matter itself," said Dr. Andisheh Mahdavi of...

SUPERCOMPUTER STUDY SHOWS MILKY WAY'S HALO OF DARK MATTER IN UNPRECEDENTED...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ......of the formation and evolution of the dark matter halo that envelopes the Milky Way galaxy...history of our galaxy. Density map of dark matter in a halo the size of the Milky Way galaxy's dark matter halo.(More images and movies of the...

Chandra probes nature of dark matter.

M2 Presswire;  September 6, 2001 ;     657 words ......2001-NASA: Chandra probes nature of dark matter (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...precisely determined the distribution of dark matter in a distant galaxy cluster with NASA...the field of candidates that explain dark matter, the invisible and unknown material...

Hubble finds ring of dark matter

Xinhua News Agency;  May 15, 2007 ;     340 words ...Hubble finds ring of dark matter WASHINGTON, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Astronomers...have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic...collision between two galaxy clusters. Dark matter makes up most of the universe's...

Secrets of the universe Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have...

The Boston Globe;  January 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ...If you drove into a wall made of dark matter, you wouldn't crack a headlight or inflate...You wouldn't even know it happened. Dark matter is the most common substance in the...created the first-ever large-scale map of dark matter in the universe. Published in the journal...

Pulsars may shed light on dark matter, says study

The Hindustan Times;  February 27, 2007 ;     439 words ......reveal the presence of small clumps of dark matter roving unseen through our galaxy, according...6 to 1. However, as to what makes up dark matter, is something scientists are not sure...new way to potentially reveal blobs of dark matter drifting nearby and perhaps even pin...

US scientists map dark matter in universe

Xinhua News Agency;  December 10, 2005 ;     561 words ...US scientists map dark matter in universe LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9...mapped the location of invisible "dark matter" in two very young galaxy clusters...that their findings support the dark matter theory, which indicates the galaxies...

In a map of dark matter, clues to galaxies' histories; Researchers unveil...

The Christian Science Monitor;  January 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......detecting structure in the universe's unseen dark matter - whose gravity herds stars into galaxies...unfolded the first large-scale map of dark matter, one of the cosmos's most enigmatic...13.6 billion years ago. Filaments of dark matter grow as time passes, the map indicates...